Founders of Kamalni Nilmani Charitable Trust are Dr Nilmani, Managing Director NCS Associates Australia Pvt Ltd and Dr Santosh Goel, MD, Physician and joint owner of two hospitals in Mumbai. Along with them are Board Members coming from various specialities to help in steering the projects as and when needed.
Besides them a whole team of doctors, paramedics volunteer their time & efforts to the Centre as and when required. During 2006-2009 for the HIV project a team of 24 staff was stationed at Nashik, Maharashtra. Overseas volunteers have been coming from Monash University Australia, University of Melbourne and Medical College in France. Two students from University of Melbourne, Australia completed their 2 months training as part of their course work. They studied impact of cultural behaviour on HIV in India.
Currently for the Solar Energy work, a team of dedicated volunteers have joined the Centre. The work is time demanding in terms of identifying suitable villages after detailed survey, sourcing suitable solar Lighting, arranging lantern distribution event, training villagers for its use and then monitoring the benefits coming to the village life and providing the maintenance for the first six months. Beyond that, it is expected that one person from the village developes appropriate skills and maintains solar lamps for a fee. Solar lanterns and panels are sourced from the market after testing their suitability. In early campaigns lanterns were distributed free of cost to the villages. To sustain the program, in future micro-financing concept will be implemented to make villagers more responsible towards ownership of the lanterns.
