At WHEELS Global Foundation (WGF) our team of engineers, doctors, volunteers, and philanthropists came together with both public and private entities to apply technology to address the many unmet demands of people in some of the most impoverished corners of India. On behalf of the entire WGF family of Board members, Partners, Volunteers, Staff, Donors, and well-wishers, I would like to thank each and everyone for their dedication, passion, time, talent, and treasure to design, develop and implement solutions for maximum impact. I take this opportunity to focus on just a few of the achievements and initiatives in this past, difficult year, that have yielded measurable, and tangible impact.
- To promote the supply of nutritious food products through women-led micro-enterprises.
- To promote demand for nutritive intake in the vulnerable communities, focusing on children and young women, through training of field health workers, who in turn counsel mothers for nutrition and hygiene.
- A Pilot Project for Integrated Water Management, based on Scientific Data and Evidence-based Decision Support System.
- A partnership between the state government of Himachal Pradesh and Wheels Global Foundation.
- A Consortium of WGF Partners, spanning scientific research group (ACWADAM), academia (IIT Roorkee), social technology enterprise (PSI), and grassroots organizations (CORD, MVS, and RTDC), with proven capability in the domain.
- A model of convergence for infrastructure-led development at the village level.
- A customized Portal for sustainable convergence at the village level.
The model labeled Healthcare Easy Access for Rural communities through Telemedicine (HEART) offers local individual operators to earn a fair wage, experience an entrepreneurial venture, and serve the community, including free AT Home Testing and health monitoring to detect early stages of critical illness and provide at a cost affordable fee for remote consultation with medical specialists, providing a prescription for treatment and required drugs that villagers can acquire at zero cost supplied by the Govt. The health monitoring continues after treatments or surgical procedures at district hospitals.
In acknowledging the assistance provided by WGF, the Rotary Club newsletter read “…. In these unprecedented times, when there is much pain and suffering all around, there are still individuals and organizations that are selflessly helping people in need in whatever way they can. During the COVID-19 pandemic, WHEELS Global Foundation has been working with NGOs in the US and India to provide oxygen concentrators and isolation rooms to underserved areas, including villages as well as Tier II and Tier III cities. Continuing with this effort, WHEELS Global Foundation, in collaboration with Shiv Yog Foundation and the Rotary Club of Aurangabad, procured 10 Oxygen Concentrators for Aurangabad….” The local media also reported this effort and its contribution to the local community.



Wheels Global Foundation (WGF) in partnership with BOSCH Foundation and Shamlaji Arts College has successfully completed the first batch of the job-oriented training of 21 Youths, 9 female and 12 Male. These youths come from most underprivileged households. Due to personal circumstances, many of these students had dropped out of school at an early age to support their families and were deprived of academic programs. WGF together with the Bosch Foundation set up a BRIDGE Center in Shamlaji College to provide three months short duration course divided into two phases, two months of classroom training and one month of on-the-job training. Twenty-one students will be graduating in December – the first graduating class of its kind where 100% of the students are placed in area companies leading to full-time opportunities.
As part of the Livelihood verticals of WHEELS, WGF facilitated the establishment of the BOSCH Foundation's BRIDGE center in Shamlaji college. WGF provided two young female master trainers to build the capacities of the youths in soft job-oriented skills such as communication, ethics, values, teamwork, problem solvers, basic English and computer literacy, client service, and so forth. Female teachers were recruited to empower women to be in teaching and leadership positions and also to create female role models for young women in tribal areas. Shamlaji college provided the infrastructure to host the Bridge Training Center. BOSCH foundation provided training kits and trained WGF master trainers. Some of the Youths have been offered entry-level positions in Ahmedabad, Surat, and Vapi in various industries. The local Gujarati media covered this important milestone for the Aravalli district.

