Project Director: Sri Balarama das (Fedor Nesterenko)
Main qualification: Project management
- 1999-2003 – traveled world-wide with His Holiness Srila Gopal Krishna Goswami for 5 years as his personal secretary.
- Helped foreign devotees in India to solve visa issues, worked with embassies, local government agencies and lawyers, gained practical project management experience and leadership skills.
- 2003 – 2008 – various business including import and export, organising tours in India.
- Moved to Mayapur in 2008, and served mainly in managerial capacity. Was a member of the Mayapur Community Sevaks (MCS, http://www.mayapur.com/about-mayapur/community-sevaks/), helped to optimize and re-organize the work of the MCS office, gave consultations to the devotees on visa-related issues, managed Community Hall.
- Founded ISKCON’s “Sri Mayapur Quality Assurance Services” in 2011. Assisted other ISKCON departments, shops, restaurants and kitchens, etc. to maintain and continually improve standards of services, prasadam, aesthetics, etc.
- Was member of the Mayapur City Council and Mayapur Festival Committee.
- 2011-2014 – worked as International Purchase and Sales Manager for “TH Polyurethane” – Russia’s 2nd largest polyurethane factory. Travelled worldwide for meetings and negotiations.
- 2014 – 2021 – Successfully completed Jalangi Dham gated community project in Sri Mayapur (62 apartments, 2 private houses).
- 2021 until now – launched Sri Ji Bhavan project…
We believe that a little bit of goodness goes a long way.
We are committed to making a positive difference locally in whatever way we can, through our various initiatives in and around Mayapur such as providing food to the needy, schoolbooks to the local underpriviliged children, medical camps for widows, helping to build temples, providing support to the devotees in our community, and similar. This is our own initiative and is fully funded by the directors of the Jalangi Properties Pvt. Ltd. company.
Some of our activities:
Free eye check-up camp and schoolbooks distribution
In collaboration with Nabadwip Hridyota we had distributed free schoolbooks to children and organized free eye-check up camp for 200 widows.
Local news channel coverage:
Food distribution for the needy
At the end of February 2022, we sponsored the distribution of lunches in collaboration with Nabadwip Hridyota charitable organisation. Thirty eight poor schoolchildren and forty two homeless people of Nabadwip received support.
Helped elderly devotee recover after a hip surgery
Ashutosha Prabhu got into an accident in Mayapur and required hip surgery, after which we bought specialised equipment for him to rehabilitate.
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