Other Leaders:

Dr. VG Pole (shown in photo to the right, far right) is Medical Officer at Anandwan. A doctor with a private practice in Raipur, Madhya Pradesh, he quit Raipur lock, stock, and barrel in 1984 to live and work at Anandwan caring for people with leprosy.

Narayan Rao (shown in photo to the right, left side), who hails from a village near Warora, was a classmate of Vikas and Prakash from school. He has been working at Anandwan for the last 45 years. He is in charge of farming activities and administration.

Shankar Mahadeo Jumade, known popularly as Shankar Dada, in his late seventies, is the oldest member of the Anandwan community and himself a leprosy patient. Barely literate, he was in charge of the Somnath project. Popularly known as the Vice Chancellor of the Worker's University, and Baba's oldest general,he is member of the Governing Body of Maharogi Sewa Samiti, in which he is fondly said to be "representing workers" rights to management."

Bhau Mistry (shown in photo to the right), a contemporary of Shankar Dada, lovingly known as the Chief Engineer of Anandwan. Although unlettered, he has designed and constructed all the buildings in Anandwan, apart from training hundreds of leprosy patients in masonry work.

Arun Kadam , came to Somnath for a youth camp in 1974. He was extremely inspired to do this work and stayed on since then. He is now looking after the Somnath project along with his wife.

Rajappa, a leprosy patient, is now a trained and skill mason with years of experience in construction of buildings.

Prabhu an electrical engineer from Goa, joined the Hemalkasa Lok Biradari Prakalp as a teacher in 1982. He now helps Vikas Amte in the administration of Anandwan.

Gopal Phadnis was a college lecturer in English until 1976 when he came to MSS. He is currently Principal of one of the largest residential schools for tribals in Central India.

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