Prof. Sandeep Desai
Sandeep Desai, a former marine engineer, and academician is a resident of Goregaon and the famous Mumbai man who begged on local trains to start rural English medium schools across villages in Maharashtra, Rajasthan, and Bihar. The earliest inspiration in the life of this man who imbibed the value of charity in education were his parents. While his mother was alive, Shloka Missionaries Trust bought an entire floor of a SRA building under construction to start an English medium school for children living in the slums. They used the funds they collected under their own Shloka Missionaries trust, for this purpose. The school, named The Shloka Missionaries Public School, worked from the same building until the end of the academic year 2013-14, where over 800 students studied in two shifts, up till 8th grade.
Source: https://www.thebetterindia.com/121081/mumbai-professor-sandeep-desai-shloka/
