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Ittoop Johannes Kurian
Bangalore, Karnataka, India, IN
Hi, I am ittoop. I am from Germany, and have mixed German and Indian heritage. I have lived most of my life almost equally split into numerous stints in each of these two countries. My wife is a school teacher, we I have an 18 year old daughter, who moved away from home to another country far away very recently to start college life. In work life, I am a senior executive with a global professional services company, we provide consulting services in digital, technology and operations. It is now 26 years since I joined them, after completing university in Germany and a 2 month backpack tour through India. The first 20 years I worked mostly in Germany, and in some further European countries and the USA. Now I have been on a foreign assignment in India with my family for the past 6 years. This ends early September and I am returning home to Germany. Over the last several years, I have been involved in numerous fundraising activities for social causes. The recent ones were a trek in the Himalayas for an orphanage in Delhi, and a trek in the Western Ghats in India for supporting underprivileged women in the state of Jharkhand. I have also done some long distance endurance trips in the past, like cycling 1500 km from the Black Forest in Germany to the French Mediterranean coast and back, cycling 1300 km from the Black Forest to the French Atlantic coast, cycling from Santander to Cap Finisterre, and a few dozen years back driving in a small car from Germany all the way to India with my parents and siblings. In recent years, being less fit and having a family, I had reduced the effort to backpacking trips, many of them in Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand and India. For many years now, my wife Heike, daughter Sangita and I have been supporting around 10 godchildren in India, Cambodia, Vietnam and the Philippines.
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Hi, I am ittoop :-) I have mixed German and Indian heritage, and have lived my life almost equally split into numerous stints in each of these two countries. My home is in Germany. In work life, I am a senior executive with a global professional services company, we provide consulting services in digital, technology and operations. It is now 26 years since I joined them, after completing university in Germany and a 2 month backpack tour through India. The first 20 years I worked mostly in Germany, and in some further European countries. Now I have been on a foreign assignment in India with my family for the past 6 years. This ends early September and I am returning home to Germany, a huge step in all aspects. My wife has already returned and has very recently taken up her job as a school teacher again, in a new school. Our only daughter, who is 18, has very recently moved away from home to another country far away to start college and the next significant phase of her life.
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Thank you for helping Vishwas!
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This is to thank all the donors and supporters who helped Ittoop for raising funds to support destitute children. The funds will be used for education and upkeep of the children incl medical, food, shelter and related exp. children will be supported thru to higher education and will be helped to develop soft skills and good moral values. Thank you Ketto for helping us throughout the process.
We have also started accepting monthly donations via. Ketto and the link for the same is: Monthly Donation
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A million steps to raise a million Rupees
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A heartfelt "Thank You" to all who followed my Camino pilgrimage, motivated and encouraged me, and sponsored, helped and contributed to my fundraising campaign for Vishwas.
A million steps to raise a million Rupees.... We together raised 1,011,720 Rupees for Vishwas!!! WOW!! And I enjoyed every one of the ~1,050000 steps I walked for this :-) At the start both seemed impossibly huge numbers...
Yesterday was the most meaningful etappe ... I visited the Vishwas home in Bangalore in the evening, together with my friend Manisha. For me, this was one of the most fulfilling experiences ever. Being among those 30 odd kids who were around was lovely. The youngest was a little 4y old girl (white dress in the picture) ... and among the eldest was a girl who is in the final year of her 4y electronics & communications engineering studies at college (wearing white dress with blue dots and blue scarf) - she will be the first ever engineering graduate from the Vishwas home. Most of them had just got home from school and were still wearing their light green school uniforms. What really touched me is how happy these children appeared to be.. their smiling faces ... the way the very little ones were playing with each other, or others helping each other doing their homework from school ... and how smart, attentive and interested they looked. I also had the opportunity to speak for an hour with Ms Vyjayanthi (the kids call her "Mummy"), who founded Vishwas in 1999 and manages it, and her husband Mr. Raman, who is now retired and runs the home jointly with her. I feel huge respect and gratitude to them for dedicating their lives to this and helping dozens of kids have a future, feel and experience love, and have strong values, good characters and habits.
We have raised 1 million for these but that might not be enough. To continue your support for Vishwas Charitable trust you can donate monthly by visiting this link: https://vishwas.ketto.org/ngo/start-recurring.php
In parting, all the kids together chanted a "Thank You" to me, which I would like to directly convey on to all of you! Below the happy faces of the children whom you are helping :-)
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