Sachidananda is an M.Com from University of Dhaka, Bangladesh worked in corporate sector for 17 years and joined The Hope Foundation in 2003. He is the head of finance and administration in the India office. He is the key person behind the financial planning and budgeting of the progrgammes implemented by various partners. He also maintains the requisition, remittance and checks the audited account of the partner organization. He is responsible for maintaining all accounts, audit of the statutory compliances of The Hope Foundation, India office. Sachidananda is the liaison between the Ireland and India office in relation to all financial matters.

Ramanika is responsible for the health, education and anti-trafficking programme at HOPE. She is a post graduate of Social and Public Policy from University of Leeds, UK with more than 10 years experience in the field of women, child development and gender. Starting from programme implementation to monitoring and evaluation of projects, Ramanika has been very thorough. She was also involved in different action research initiatives on education and child rights. She has worked both in rural and urban settings. During her stay in UK, she was engaged in contextualizing a book on reproductive health for people with learning disabilities in India.

Madhshree’s key responsibilities include monitoring of quality implementation and progress of the Child Protection Program. She also engages in capacity building, planning, strategy development and documentation of best practices. A master degree holder in Social Welfare with a post graduate diploma in Psychological Counselling, Madhusree has 7 years of experience working with marginalised communities including sex workers and their children, people with HIV/AIDS, Bidi binders, slum and street children. She also has relevant amount of research experience and has co-authored an article published in an international journal.

Soma is one of the programme support officers responsible for monitoring of various projects under the thematic areas of health, education, protection and livelihood. In 7 years of professional experience she has developed expertise in the area of monitoring and evaluation. She has worked in the field of Women empowerment, natural resource management and HIV/AIDS with special focus on sex worker, Hijra(Eunuch), transgender, homosexual, migrant population and injective drug users. She has worked both in rural and urban projects in 5 states of India. Soma has a Master Degree in Integrated Rural Development and Management and was the batch topper.

Jhulan has been working in the social development sector for more than a decade and her working experience spreads across projects with UNESCO, DFID, EU, State Government, Indian and foreign Universities that largely concentrate on application of ICT in human development, education, teachers’ education and income generation of women. A Post Graduate in Business Administration from IISW&BM, Jhulan mentors International volunteers and Indian Interns at The Hope Foundation. She has hands on experience on community media, video documentation and she is a professional leadership trainer. Ethnographic action research was one of the key components of her early works and few of her articles on ICT for development have been published in development journals and magazines. She is well traveled and has participated in many International workshop and seminars.

Saurabh is responsible for the Management Information System for the all THF funded projects in India for past three years. He holds a Master degree in Computer applications from IGNOU. He has in depth knowledge in Database and Programming languages like SQL, VB, Oracle, C++, Java. He started his carrier in social development sector in the Projects run by CARE INDIA and Government of Bihar in the field of mother and child health in 2012. His expertise in handling and managing MIS and his in-depth knowledge in SPSS adds value to this.

Amal is the Finance Monitoring Officer in the HOPE Programme Team for last 6 years. He is responsible for screening the financial expenditure made under all HOPE funded projects of the partners. He also looks after Accounts of the office and provides necessary support while preparing various budgets.

Arunava is Graduate from University of Kolkata. He is working with THE HOPE Foundation for last 11 years. His key responsibilities are providing logistics support to the International visitors and volunteers and looking after the maintenance of the HOPE properties. He is also responsible for purchase and procurement materials required for the International visitors and events. He also shares responsibility for smooth running of the HOPE Boutique.

Romio is the Corodinator - Survey and Data Analysis in The Hope Foundation. He has been involved with fund raising at the beginning on his carrier and in THF he is engaged in conducting survey, data entry and data analysis on the various issues of health, education, sanitation, occupation of the slum dwellers. Currently he is pursuing a Master Degree on Social Welfare. Painting is his passion and he holds a diploma in Fine Arts.

Sulochona has a Masters degree in Environmental Science from Imperial College, London. She worked with Steel Authority of India Ltd. for 23 years - 17 years in corporate R&D Centre, Ranchi and 6 years with their corporate Environment Management Division, Kolkata. She joined Hope after retirement in 2014 and has been working here for over 3 years. Her work at Hope is related to proposal development across all themes; preparing concept notes, project proposals, case studies/stories and Annual Overview. Sulochona is active member of Imperial College Alumni Association, Kolkata; life member of ENDEV (Society for Environment and Development) and enjoys being an UN Online Volunteer. She plays flute with Beniasahakala Music Group.

Bijita has worked for 20 years in the research and education sectors and has a PhD in Waste Minimization, Recycle, Re-use and Recovery. She worked as a post graduate researcher at Brunel University, UK for 5 years at the ‘Centre for Environmental Research’. She has a Chemical Engineering background with knowledge of Environmental Legislation and Management. She has experience of projects working with the UK Government, research bodies and private companies in collaboration and has 3 research publications. ijita has spent the last 15 years in the social sector teaching in Government Schools in London, UK. She was responsible for the Middle School science curriculum, mentoring teachers in different subjects inc.  Curriculum, pedagogy and pastoral systems for behaviour management and child protection. She was a School Governor for 9 years to support the running of whole school issues. During the past year Bijita has joined HOPE where she is now developing proposals.

Debu joined The Hope Foundation in 2006. His primary responsibilities are maintenance of various equipments, filling of documents and providing administrative and logistics support as and when needed.

Surojit joined The Hope Foundation in 2006. His primary responsibilities are maintaining the cleanliness of the office premises and preparing and serving tea/coffee. He is fond of food preparation.