Mahatma Gandhi Foundation is located in
Mumbai, Republic of
India and is headed by
Tushar Gandhi, the great-grandson of ‘
Bapu’
Mahatma Gandhi. The organization under the leadership of Tushar, a socio-political activist of peace issues, is involved in advocating and spreading Gandhian values and principles to address the problems and dilemmas faced by humankind and the contemporary world.
In 2006, Tushar Gandhi was appointed as a Goodwill Ambassador of the Intergovernmental Institution for the use of Micro-algae Spirulina Against Malnutrition, IIMSAM, that works to promote the use of micro-algae
Spirulina (Spirulina Platensis) to counter malnutrition and its severe negative impacts especially in the developing and Least Developed Countries (LDC).
The
Gandhi Foundation is a foundation located in the
United Kingdom dedicated entirely to
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and his works to free India from British rule. It has an office in
Kingsley Hall Community Centre in east London where Gandhi stayed in 1931.
This organisation was founded in 1983 by
Surur Hoda. The current president of the Gandhi Foundation is
Sir Richard Attenborough.
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