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Our Team

Meet our team of dedicated and caring individuals

Darshan
Scout
Jag
Upkar
Harbhajan
Jasmine
Mohan
Simran
Harp
Abby

Fundraising & Volunteers
Fundraising
Scout Collins, Fundraising Co-ordinator
Jasmine Collins, Junior Fundraising Co-ordinator

Simran Saxena, Fundraiser

Volunteers {Traveling}
Harbhajan Arora
Darshan Arora

Mohan Singh

Supporters & Contributors

Creative Development
Website Design
Scout Collins, Head Website Designer


Marketing Advisor
Harp Arora

Newsletter Design
Scout Collins


Media Advisor
Abby Gainforth
Our Leaders
Founder
Darshan Arora

Executive Director
Darshan Arora

Directors
Jagpreet Arora
Upkar Arora

Treasurer
Ranveer Arora


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Darshan Arora
Founder, Executive Director  (Retired C.A, C.F.P.)

Darshan Arora had the dream of creating a charity that would help advance, support and enrich education for children in India. Being the persevering and dedicated man he is, he worked tirelessly to get this charity established. He made efforts to found a charity in Fall 2013, and he continued his work finishing the final steps of registering the charity in 2014. Since then, he has been working hard to manage the charity. He is in charge of deciding where donations go, establishing partnerships with other charities, approving applications for scholarships, getting donations, accounting and more.

Scout Collins
Website Designer, Newsletter Designer, Fundraising Co-ordinator (B.A.)

After Scout Collins heard Darshan Arora wanted to found a charity, she was eager to help. She volunteered to design the website, and grew her volunteer work into designing a logo, sending out newsletters, some secretarial work, social media management and fundraising co-ordination. She is excited to help Shukrana grow into a better charity. She helps organise all fundraising events. She established the Youth Fundraising Program that has gotten kids to raise over $5,000 so far. In 2018 and 2019 she ran her own camps to teach kids about getting involved, education and the environment. She has also run mini camps to fundraise and provide events for kids in the community. Scout has and always will be a part of Shukrana.
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Jagpreet Arora
Director (M.D, B.A, C.C.F.P)

Growing up in the Arora Family, Jag, like her siblings, learned the value and benefits of a good education and has been grateful for the opportunity to pursue an education in psychology and medicine. She practises medical psychotherapy as her job. She is one of the two directors of the Shukrana Foundation. She donates and is very supportive of fundraising events as well as helping out in many other ways. She helps drive volunteers and supplies, is a photographer at events and enjoys sharing her ideas about Shukrana's projects.

Upkar Arora
Director (F.C.P.A, F.C.A, ICD.D)

​Upkar Arora serves as a director helping with overall operations, administration and granting. He was awarded the prestigious Fellow designation in 2017, holds the ICD.D designation and is a BMW Foundation Global Responsible Leader. In 2022, he received the Distinguished Teacher Award from the University of Waterloo where he is an adjunct lecturer. He is the CEO of Rally Assets, an impact investing and advisory firm. He has worked in senior roles with some of Canada’s most successful entrepreneurs for more than 25 years - building, operating and advising companies of varying sizes, stages and sectors, domestically and globally. Over the past decade he has focused his efforts on driving systems change to create a more just and equitable society. Upkar serves or has served on several boards including Why Not Theatre, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Vancity Community Investment Bank, University of Waterloo, Metrolinx and Meridian Credit Union.
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Jasmine Collins
Junior fundraising co-ordinator (youth)
Jasmine Collins is a young fundraiser who has helped raise over $5,000 for Shukrana. She was promoted to Youth Fundraising Co-ordinator, which involves organizing & contributing to fundraising events and recruiting new people to get involved. She has been an active part of Shukrana from the beginning, by helping out in any way she could since she was 9 years old. She has gone door-to-door fundraising, and run bake & drink sales. She donates time, money and effort to our Youth Programs in Canada, getting her friends involved in helping out. She has been a Junior Camp Counselor at our PA Day camps since 2018, as well as a counselor at mini-camps since 2022. She has donated her own personal money as well.
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Shukrana Foundation Inc. is officially registered by Canada Revenue Agency. Charitable Registration No. is 81616 7332 RR0001.

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