Founder Trustees of BeMyBuddy Foundation

“The feeling of ‘I’, ‘mine’ and ‘I am the doer’ is ignorance.  After attaining Knowledge a man says: ‘O God, nothing belongs to me, neither this house of worship, nor wife, son, and family. They are all Thine. To love these objects, regarding them as one’s own, is maya. But to love all things is daya, compassion. To love only the members of one’s own family, own country is maya. But to love the people of all countries, to love the members of all religions, is daya.” – Extracts (modified) from The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. 

Words that gel well with our thinking and so much in line with the ethos of #LivingMyPromise…Though already involved in charity work, it was in 2023 that we then decided to strengthen our already existing education-based Charitable Trust with a substantial corpus, moving from Ad hoc work to full-time helping Government schools to improve the school environment as well as the learning ability of the children with various interventions in Science, Computers, Spoken English and Sports. Firmly believing that the joy of giving is not measured merely by money but more so through the immeasurable love & affection that is exchanged both ways, we are fully involved in running the programs and thus have a clear visibility of impact. 

Kalyani (MA French) contributes to the spoken English classes through her teaching experience as a teacher of French as a foreign language.
Murali (Retd from Commodities Biz) uses his management and administrative talent as well as learnings of sharing and caring imbibed while helping an Adivasi organization, to ensure optimal use of resources and impact.”

– Kalyani and Murali Menon