THE TEAM · 2006-2026 · 20 YEARS

The people who don't wait.

11 programs. 20 years. One unbroken thread, show up, stay, deliver. This is the team and the methodology behind it.

LEADERSHIP

The people who don't wait.

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B THE CHANGE WELFARE SOCIETY

Founder & President

FOUNDER'S NOTE · RAM CHALLA

It started with one question.

"What if we just started?" In 2006, that question, and a single laptop, became the seed of what is now nine programs across India and the UK. No grand launch. No press. Just one classroom, then ten, then a thousand.

Ram Challa, founder of B The Change Welfare Society, has spent the past two decades doing one thing extraordinarily well: showing up. Twenty years of consecutive grassroots work, 9 programs, 200,000+ lives touched, two countries.

A practising lawyer and UK Solicitor by profession, Ram brings a rare double discipline: the rigour of advocacy and the patience of community work. He has filed PILs that protected entire forests, built classrooms that taught a generation Python, and quietly stood with families across India and the UK who had nowhere else to turn.

"We were never going to be the loudest. We just decided we'd be the ones still here in twenty years. Most things change when you simply don't leave."
RAM CHALLA · FOUNDER & PRESIDENT

20 YEARS · UNBROKEN GROUNDWORK LAWYER · UK SOLICITOR 9 PROGRAMS · 2 COUNTRIES

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Working President

WORKING PRESIDENT

Every program runs through young people.

Rohan leads the Youth & Education portfolio across all nine programs. An MBA from IIM Kozhikode and a law graduate from NALSAR Hyderabad, he has spent the last decade in public service, most of it inside classrooms, panchayat halls, and the back rooms of state-level education reform.

His conviction is simple: every program at B The Change either flows through young people, or it fails. Coding on Wheels reaches the children. Changemakers trains the next generation of grassroots leaders. Cross Connect Legal Aid pairs law students with the cases that build advocates. He sees the threads. He pulls them tight.

Before stepping into the Working President role, Rohan worked on policy frameworks for school dropout prevention in three Indian states, advised CSR teams on the difference between activity and outcome, and spent eighteen months in a small panchayat in northern Andhra to understand what "last-mile education" actually means when the road runs out two villages before the school.

"You don't build a country by waiting for the next election. You build it one classroom, one panchayat, one Saturday at a time."
ROHAN RAJKULKARNI · WORKING PRESIDENT

IIM KOZHIKODE · MBA NALSAR HYDERABAD · LAW 10 YEARS · PUBLIC SERVICE

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MOMENTS · FROM THE FIELD

Twenty years, captured.

Inaugurations. Awards. Classrooms. Campaigns. A small selection of the work and the recognition it has earned along the way.

Sri Ram Kalyan Challa receives the Certificate of World Record for the World's First Organ Donation on Wheels. — VISWAGURU WORLD RECORD · WORLD'S FIRST Sri Ram Kalyan Challa receives the Certificate of World Record from Viswaguru, recognising B The Change Welfare Society for the world's first *"Organ Donation on Wheels"* initiative, active since May 2016 with 1,27,000+ signed-up donors.

B The Change at the Viswaguru World Records award ceremony. — AWARD CEREMONY · HYDERABAD National recognition at the Viswaguru World Records ceremony, alongside other awardees from across India.

KT Rama Rao inaugurating Organ Donation vehicle — INAUGURATION · KTR Ex-IT Minister of Telangana, Shri K. T. Rama Rao, inaugurating the Organ Donation vehicle.

MP Konda Vishweshwar Reddy launching the Organ Donation poster — POSTER LAUNCH · MP KVR MP Konda Vishweshwar Reddy launching the poster, "Be a Hero. Become an Organ Donor."

B The Change campaign vehicle — "LIFE IS A GIFT, PASS IT ON" The campaign vehicle in everyday Hyderabad streets, to register as a donor, citizens call directly.

Medical students at the Department of Anatomy — DEPARTMENT OF ANATOMY · OUTREACH Awareness session with medical students at a Department of Anatomy, the next generation of doctors learning what their signatures on a donor card can mean.

METHODOLOGY

How we actually work.

Five principles, refined across 20 years and 11 programs. Not a pitch deck. The actual operating manual.

Local before national. Every program is run by people who live in the community it serves. We don't fly teams in. We hire from the village, the slum, the school.
Show up for ten years. Real change is intergenerational. We commit to communities for a minimum decade, even when funding cycles say otherwise.
Measure what matters. Not vanity metrics. Did the child finish school? Did the mother pay rent six months in a row? Did the case get filed? That's our scorecard.
One donor, one impact line. If you fund a Coding on Wheels classroom, you get the names of the children, the school, the laptop count, and the term-end results. Direct. Unfiltered.
Refuse what doesn't fit. We say no to grants that come with strings that compromise the work. That's why our growth has been slower than peers, and our retention has been higher.

RECOGNITION & COMPLIANCE

Every rupee, traceable.

80G

CERTIFIED

100% tax exemption for donors under Section 80G of the Income Tax Act.

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REGISTERED

Income Tax registration confirming non-profit status.

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COMPLIANT

Eligible for Corporate Social Responsibility funding under Sec 135.

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DARPAN ID

TS/2023/0380583

TECHNOLOGY PARTNER

Microsoft

Microsoft powers our data infrastructure, donor management, and the Coding on Wheels curriculum platform.

DIRECT BANK TRANSFER

For institutional donors and CSR teams.

Wire transfers, RTGS, and NEFT all welcome. 80G receipt issued within 24 hours. For invoices and acknowledgement letters, email support@bthechange.in.

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ACCOUNT DETAILS

Axis Bank · Champapet, Hyderabad

A/C 916010023113616

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REGISTERED OFFICE

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