Team

We are a small team with a large family working closely together to provide last mile services to farmers. Our focus areas are agriculture, healthcare and education. We take the initiative of impactful training and development sessions for the farmers to help them improve their livelihood. From providing access to modern farming techniques to healthcare, the farmers are provided with hand holding support.

Nirupa Sanjenbam
Head of Projects 

Nirupa is our Head of Project and manages the Agri-Entrepreneurs Program and projects. She is also responsible for all communication within and outside the organisation, oversees the team on the ground and acts as the key contact person for all of our local stakeholders.

Nirupa has a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce and has experience in client relations, business communication, management and marketing. When she is not busy, she could be found buried in a good book.

Memory Chirom
Accountant

Memory is our accountant. She has a keen eye for details. She handles all the financial information and keeps the numbers compiled and in order. Her pleasing personality makes you believe the numbers are easy to compute, but we all know it too well.

Memory has a Master’s Degree in Commerce. She counts as the day starts, but when she is not busy, can be found gardening.

Yumnam Sanjitumar Singh
Facilitites, Women and Child Development Manager

Sanjitkumar holds a Master of Science in Anthropology from Guwahati University and a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Anthropology from Manipur University. He also has a Diploma in Elementary Education and recently started learning Korean.

Thounaojam Surjeet Luwangcha
Agriculture Expert

Surjeet grew up surrounded by pristine landscape in the heart of Manipur’s vegetables production zone within striking distance from Loktak Lake. Agriculture was always his passion and, after a brief stint outside of Manipur, he returned home to start farming. Surjeet also worked as the Project Coordinator for the MaolKeki Foundation before deciding to take the leap to become an Agri Entrepreneur and grow the ViB agribusiness. Because of the unique combination of deep agronomic knowledge and entrepreneurial skills, Surjeet is well positioned to provide deep technical mentoring to our AEs.

In his spare time, he likes to catch up with farmers from his village and spend time with his family.

Dr. Shachi Gurumayum
Founder

Dr. Shachi is responsible for the vision and strategy behind the MaolKeki Foundation. An avid intra/entrepreneur, he has worked across four continents, and is currently driving agtech adoption in Africa and South Asia. A strong believer in humanity and the positive change people can bring working together, he is a philanthropist at heart and has tirelessly worked to shape the MKF team, its partnerships and our activities on the ground. He is always only a phone call or text message away. That is, unless he is busy growing vegetables in his home garden or helping out someone.

Dr. Shachi has multiple degrees in science and business. To learn more about him, check out his LinkedIn page here.