Moro Foundation public charitable trust
		Manifesto
	•	Create social capital through philantrophy
	•	Recognize that humans are only as rich as they give
	•	Reward excellence in education and animal welfare
	•	Encourage political discourse in the public sphere
Managing Trustee J. Madhav Rao, of Mysore (India) Formerly textile technologist and farmer, currently animal welfare activist.		Projects The Moro Foundation aims to encourage, by way of financial reward, all activities that promote its motto of Excellence, Service and Compassion. Current thrust areas are 1. Award of scholarships to brilliant but needy students. 2. Recognition to outstanding teachers. 3. Substitution of steel horseshoes on cart-bullocks with plastic/rubber horseshoes that do not require nails. (Trials stage). 4. Mass cultivation of tissue-cultured, high-yielding, disease-resistant green fodder with xerophylic characteristics, for cart-bullocks and other urban beasts of burden. (Funding awaited) Please email the Moro Foundation to ask for details.     This website is available at the URL www.morofound.org and by link from several other sites	The Inspiration Shylaja Moro, in whose fond reverance the Moro Foundation is established, has given up the "worldly life" to be a nun with Sharada Math, which she joined in 1995 at the age of 19. She currently lives a life of meditation, prayer and service in an ashram near the Himalayan town of Almora in northern India. Sharada Math is a female monastic order inspired by Holy Mother Sharada Devi, one of modern India's beloved spiritual icons.
Trustees Hemlata Madhav Rao, of Mysore (India) Housewife and magazine columnist
Dr. Vijay L. Prabhu, of Mumbai (India) Consultant pathologist and municipal honorary.
Nikhil Moro, of Columbus (Ohio, U.S.A.) Journalist and Ph.D. researcher at Ohio State University.

Donations exempt from tax

Donations to the Moro Foundation are exempt from income-tax under Section 80 (G) of the Indian Income Tax Act 1961. As per current rules of the Indian government, donations to public charitable trusts may be made in Indian rupees as well as in foreign currency. However, if you live in the U.S.A., Canada, U.K., Australia, New Zealand, or in a Pacific Rim country and wish to make a donation to the Foundation, you may want to email or phone the Foundation first.

Legal Status
The Moro Foundation is registered as a public charitable trust in Mysore, India, under the Indian Trust Act 1882. (Regd. No. 510/2001-2002)

Sure, the Moro Foundation can use some good money. But even more than money, the Foundation needs goodwill -- and ideas. So whether you have cheque, a word of encouragement or a suggestion, we look forward to hearing from you!

20, Fifth Main Road
Yadavagiri
Mysore 570 020
INDIA
Phone: 91-821-413041
Email: moro@eth.net

Contact address in U.S.A.

1550/F, Neil Avenue
Columbus, Ohio 43201
U.S.A.
Phone: (614) 294-5841
Fax: (614) 292-7196
Email: moro.8@osu.edu