KEY PEOPLE
The key people and affiliated NGO’s and organizations who have been overseeing the addministration of Heal The Heels of India have been shown to have the necessarybackground ,knowledge and experience to achieve the goals and growth of this project .
DR. WILLO JORDAN-WALKER
Dr.Willo who had the original vision for the Heal The Heals the Heels of India NGO sadly passed way in December 2021.
Willo was an amazingly benevolent and generous soul who helped and touched the hearts of many people around the world.
Dr. Walker, a gifted practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), dedicated over two decades to the practice of Oriental medicine. During this extensive period, he not only enhanced his skills in TCM but also undertook thorough travels and studies in China, deepening his understanding of the discipline.
Additionally Dr Walker had a 30 year background, and various bodywork, modalities, including Shiatsu, and was a skilled Tui na teacher.His approach to Qigong drew from the Five Elements , Japaneese, Classical ChineeseTCM and French Energetics .
Dr.Walker is a certified NADA trainer and operated a NADA clinic in Victoria B.C.for over 10 years.
Dr. Walker presented hundreds of workshops on a wide variety of health and healing topics and was known for his passionate teaching style and deep understanding of the subject matter.
Additionaly , during the last decade of his life, he travelled to India every year attending many meditation programs and treated hundreds of patients in rural medical clinics associated with these programs.
Michael Weiner
Michael Weiner has over 40 years experience as a pioneer in marketing natural and organic food, medicine and personal-care products in all distribution channels throughout the Canadian, U.S. and Australian Markets.
During this period, he has also been involved in personal, spiritual meditation programs in many different parts of India.
Both of these aspects of Michael’s life have served to make him acutely aware of the multiple health issues that many people in rural Indian villages experience on a daily basis and how effective relatively simple, high quality, low-cost natural remedies can be in healing some of these issues.
During a recent spiritual retreat to India, traveling with Dr. Willo Walker to many rural Indian villages, the gravity and high incidence of cracked feet and heels among village women became very apparent.
Micheal Weiner and Dr. Willo Walker discovered how a low-cost, natural, highly emollient, lanolin-based Ayurvedic creme could be used over a short period of time to assist in healing cracked heels and feet. Their awareness and continued experimentation with this formula among many village women evolved into the birth of the Heal the Heals of India project.
ASHOK SHINKAR
Ashok Shinkar is a socially-inclined investment banker with over 20 years of experience in finance, lending, investment banking, complex deal,restructuring, organizational management, corporate turnarounds and stress asset resolutions and real estate project development.
Ashok’s multifaceted business activities have been substantial, both in terms of their financial scope and impact on a wide variety of business and social communities. Having held leading positions in the past with Capital First, JM Morgan Stanley, SSKI Corporate Finance, etc., Ashok has more recently founded the Strugence Benevolent Foundation, a “not for profit” company focused on creating a deep social impact in areas of healthcare, malnutrition, green energy, and housing.
Ashok is currently devoting his time and resources to several socially responsible projects:
Setting up and operating a centralized kitchen to provide nutritionally beneficial free food for up to 1000 people per day in major Indian urban centers
Providing managerial and organizational assistance in developing and expanding the “Heal The Heels Of India” Program to freely provide a natural Ayurvedic creme Padarakshini, specifically formulated to rapidly heal cracked heels and feet that are so prevalent among disadvantaged woman in rural Indian villages
Creating a Category 1 Social Venture Fund under the SEBI guidelines in India to deepen the impact and effectiveness of corporate investments that come under the “Corporate Social Responsibility regulations contained in the Indian Companies Act
Developing a multifaceted platform for CSR called www.csrnoble.com to assist in seamlessly bringing together corporate and socially responsible ventures
Elena Muradian
Elena Muradian has a lifelong interest in alternative health and medicine with over 20 years of experience studying working and assisting in personal care and health fields including Ayurveda and Chinese Medicine.
Most recently Elena was the general manager and administrative assistant to Dr. Willo Walker for several years in his Kang Ren wholistic health and Chinese medicine Clinic in British Columbia, Canada.
While working with Dr. Waker, Elena also received her diploma in a three-year Post Degree Program in Global Business Management at North Island College.
Elena has also travelled extensively in India over the past 20 years and has a deep understanding and appreciation for Indian culture and its people.