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Founder & Director, The Riverside School

Kiran Bir Sethi
Project Head 

Kirti Zala
Project Coordinator

Raj Dhamelia
Program Coordinator

Lukasha Varshney
Founder & Director, The Riverside School

Kiran Bir Sethi

Kiran Bir Sethi is an Indian educationist, designer and thinker. She founded the Riverside School in 2001 and since then has infected millions of students and educators with the ‘I CAN Mindset’ through her design thinking framework of ‘Feel-Imagine-Do-Share’ (FIDS). Kiran has been a prominent thought leader and advocate for child centric education for over a decade. In 2008 she initiated ‘aProCh’ (A Protagonist in Every Child), a simple way to make our cities more child friendly, and in 2009 then founded ‘DFC’ (‘Design for Change’). She was awarded the Ashoka Fellowship in 2008 for this initiative. She was also a featured TED speaker at TED India 2009.

Email:aproch@schoolriverside.com

Project Head 

Kirti Zala

Meet Eduhero Kirti – also known as Persipatient! She is a passionate and strong advocate of building ‘A Better World for Children’. On a typical day, you will find her feeling strongly about creating opportunities for Children to engage in free play; imagining different ways to add value to the community – especially children, making sure that aProCh doesn’t mean just fun but also learning. She is always excited about adding value to the stakeholders and inspires them to take ownership of the vision of aProCh. Kirti is as calm as a millpond under pressure and persists with patience to reach the desired goals.

Project Coordinator

Raj Dhamelia

Raj has been a passionate advocate for child friendly cities and gender equality, who believes in transforming ideas into reality. He is an MBA graduate from K.S. School of Business Management, Ahmedabad. Raj has 3 years of experience in the hospitality industry and more than 10 years of experience in social causes. He is leading the Bindi Project which is about inspiring people to love and respect India’s daughters.  He is program head at aProCh. His passion and dedication towards bringing change has inspired many. He is multi-talented, friendly and a cricket lover.

Program Coordinator

Lukasha Varshney

Lukasha Varshney, a Product Designer and Sculptor with a love for blending art and functionality. She thrive on solving challenges through user-centered design and enjoys working with diverse teams to create meaningful experiences. With a background in Fine Arts, she brings a creative touch to every project, whether it’s crafting intuitive interfaces or streamlining processes. Design, to her, is about making life easier and more beautiful at the same time.

Interns/Volunteers

Nishi Shukla

Ravi Pansuria

Vanshika Shastri

Fakruddin Qureshi

Akshay Makwana

Khyalika Chakravarti

Nishi Shukla

Nishi Shukla is a second year Human Resource Management Major at Ahmedabad University. As an individual, she is extremely determined, ambitious and goal-oriented. She is state level basketball player and trained classical dancer. I enjoy good music and food.

Ravi Pansuria

Ravi is working in Abellon Clean energy Ltd- Ahmedabad as an Assistant Manager Taxation. Ravi is hard working and kind hearted human, always willing to help.

Vanshika Shastri

vanshika shastri is an enthusiastic person. She loves to meet new people and help them. She is a dancer and love writing and listening to songs. And She believes that Aproch has truly helped her by giving opportunities and experiences that made her have a greater outlook.

Fakruddin Qureshi

Fakru Qureshi is a seasoned international logistics manager. Outside of work, he is passionate about engaging in volunteer activities and contributing to various programs aimed at making a positive impact in the community.

Akshay Makwana

Akshay works as a manager in car showroom but he is a humanatirian at heart. He is engaged with lot of social work and charities.

Khyalika Chakravarti

Khyalika Chakravarti is a B.com & B.Ed graduate with 7 years of experience as a learner and teacher. She is a firm believer of finding happiness in small things. Photography, food and exploring new places are the things she loves to do.

Outreach Members

Hitesh Kumar

Komal Shah

Mansi

Navin Agrawal

RJ Harsh

Jignesh Fumakiya

Hitesh Kumar

Hitesh Kumar is a passionate photographer who is engineer by profession. He loves capturing moments and supports the idea of child friendly city.

Komal Shah

Komal is an active member of aProCh family since long. She enjoys and encourage nature based and community friendly initiatives of aProCh.

Mansi

Mansi is an enthusiast artist who comes to Happy street to enjoy, draw skectes and spread happiness. She is a born warrier and always smiling.

Navin Agrawal

Navin Agrawal is a fitness intructor and has been associated with aProCh since 2014. He is always eagar and willing to support children and women welfare activities.

RJ Harsh

Rj Harsh is a radio jockey, anchor, artist and multi talented person. He is a believer and supporter of aProCh and always entertain audiance with his melodious voice

Jignesh Fumakiya

Jignesh Fumakiya, an IC engineer, following my passion in art, successfully running art studio Kabira Ink TATTOO And Piercing and founder of NGO named “Milke bante khushiyan

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