The Somaia Family Foundation
When One Child
Rises, We All Rise
Her Greatest Legacy Was Giving Beyond Herself Zarna Somaia’s personal wealth now creates dignity, opportunity and conscious learning. Every contribution reaches a child directly, never administrative costs, with visible impact.
The Somaia Family Foundation
I believe my life’s work has just begun.
Her Greatest Legacy Was Giving Beyond Herself Zarna Somaia’s personal wealth now creates dignity, opportunity and conscious learning. Every contribution reaches a child directly, never administrative costs, with visible impact.
The Somaia Family Foundation
When One Child
Rises, We All Rise
Her Greatest Legacy Was Giving Beyond Herself Zarna Somaia’s personal wealth now creates dignity, opportunity and conscious learning. Every contribution reaches a child directly, never administrative costs, with visible impact.
Our Mission is to make self-mastery, agency and human flourishing accessible to every child, regardless of circumstance.
Children in high-income countries receive 155× the funding of low-income peers.
Children in high-income countries receive 155× the funding of low-income peers.
39% of workers’ core skills are expected to change by 2030.
39% of workers’ core skills are expected to change by 2030.
70% of ten-year-olds in low-and-middle-income countries cannot understand a simple text.
70% of ten-year-olds in low-and-middle-income countries cannot understand a simple text.
Each additional year of schooling raises future earnings by nearly 10%.
Each additional year of schooling raises future earnings by nearly 10%.
Children in high-income countries receive 155× the funding of low-income peers.
Children in high-income countries receive 155× the funding of low-income peers.
Our Mission is to make self-mastery, agency and human flourishing accessible to every child, regardless of circumstance.
Our Mission is to make self-mastery, agency and human flourishing accessible to every child, regardless of circumstance.
Children in high-income countries receive 155× the funding of low-income peers.
39% of workers’ core skills are expected to change by 2030.
70% of ten-year-olds in low-and-middle-income countries cannot understand a simple text.
Each additional year of schooling raises future earnings by nearly 10%.
Children in high-income countries receive 155× the funding of low-income peers.
Our Mission is to make self-mastery, agency and human flourishing accessible to every child, regardless of circumstance.
My mother left her personal wealth to this Foundation, embodying what Maslow called self-transcendence: the highest expression of human potential.
She measured abundance not by what she retained, but by what she released into another person’s future.
Her legacy now gives children access to self-knowledge, agency and possibility. Every contribution reaches them directly, never administration.
When one child rises, humanity rises with them.
LINA ASHAR
Founder Emeritus: Dreamtime Learning | Billabong High & Kangaroo Kids | TedX Speaker | Philanthropist | Author
My mother left her personal wealth to this Foundation, embodying what Maslow called self-transcendence: the highest expression of human potential.
She measured abundance not by what she retained, but by what she released into another person’s future.
Her legacy now gives children access to self-knowledge, agency and possibility. Every contribution reaches them directly, never administration.
When one child rises, humanity rises with them.
LINA ASHAR
Founder Emeritus: Dreamtime Learning | Billabong High & Kangaroo Kids | TedX Speaker | Philanthropist | Author
The Somaia Dreamtime Conscious Education Fund
The Fund unites the Somaia family’s legacy of giving with Dreamtime Learning’s commitment to conscious human development. Its programmes support learners, strengthen schools and develop teachers through agency, self-mastery and human flourishing.
Nominate A Dreamer
Nominate A Dreamer
One hundred children from ancillary and blue-collar families will receive full K–10 scholarships at Dreamtime Learning School.Through its Online School, learners can access global, future-facing education regardless of income or geography. Nominators need only help provide a suitable device and reliable internet.
Nominate A Dreamer
Nominate A Dreamer
One hundred children from ancillary and blue-collar families will receive full K–10 scholarships at Dreamtime Learning School.Through its Online School, learners can access global, future-facing education regardless of income or geography. Nominators need only help provide a suitable device and reliable internet.
Nominate A
Champion School
Nominate A
Champion School
Government-aided and nonprofit schools can receive grade-appropriate socio-emotional learning programmes delivered by trained facilitators.
Learners develop emotional vocabulary, self-awareness and regulation, creating the inner safety from which meaningful learning begins.
Nominate A
Champion School
Nominate A
Champion School
Government-aided and nonprofit schools can receive grade-appropriate socio-emotional learning programmes delivered by trained facilitators.
Learners develop emotional vocabulary, self-awareness and regulation, creating the inner safety from which meaningful learning begins.
Continuous Teacher Development
Continuous Teacher Development
Teachers receive ongoing development in conscious education, emotional regulation, learner engagement and the science of learning.
They learn to recognise the need beneath behaviour, replace fear with curiosity and create classrooms built on safety and agency. When teachers develop, the lives they shape change with them.
Continuous Teacher Development
Continuous Teacher Development
Teachers receive ongoing development in conscious education, emotional regulation, learner engagement and the science of learning.
They learn to recognise the need beneath behaviour, replace fear with curiosity and create classrooms built on safety and agency. When teachers develop, the lives they shape change with them.
Why Are We Doing This?
Why Are We Doing This?
Maslow’s hierarchy begins with survival and safety, then rises through belonging, esteem and self-actualisation. Later, Maslow placed self-transcendence above them all: the point at which a life finds meaning by serving something beyond itself.
Zarna Somaia embodied that final ascent. The Foundation carries her legacy to children still struggling for the foundational conditions from which flourishing becomes possible. We provide access, safety, belonging and conscious learning so that circumstance does not imprison potential.
The purpose is not simply to help children succeed within the world as it is. It is to help them become the human beings who can transform it.
The purpose is not simply to help children succeed within the world as it is. It is to help them become the human beings who can transform it.
Why Are We Doing This?
Maslow’s hierarchy begins with survival and safety, then rises through belonging, esteem and self-actualisation. Later, Maslow placed self-transcendence above them all: the point at which a life finds meaning by serving something beyond itself.
Zarna Somaia embodied that final ascent. The Foundation carries her legacy to children still struggling for the foundational conditions from which flourishing becomes possible. We provide access, safety, belonging and conscious learning so that circumstance does not imprison potential.
The purpose is not simply to help children succeed within the world as it is. It is to help them become the human beings who can transform it.
The purpose is not simply to help children succeed within the world as it is. It is to help them become the human beings who can transform it.
Where Legacy Became a Living Promise
The Somaia Family Foundation brought together learners, families, educators and those interested in human possibility. Their stories show impact beyond numbers: children finding their voice, parents discovering hope and everyone thinking about humanity.
Every Contribution Has a Human Story
Every contribution reaches its source, never used in administrative costs. Contributors will see what their support enabled, from scholarships and teacher development to socio-emotional learning in schools.
Our impact measures:
Learners receiving full scholarships
Years of learning funded
Champion Schools supported
Teachers developed
SEL modules delivered
Learner agency and well-being
Contribution-to-impact traceability
A Legacy Passed
Forward
A Legacy Passed
Forward
“The day a child dying of hunger in Sudan, a child fleeing war in Gaza or Ukraine, a child trafficked in India, or a child sleeping on the streets breaks our heart as deeply as our own child’s pain, that is the day humanity will have evolved into a higher consciousness.” - Lina Ashar
Anil Somaia
Founder
Simba
Anil taught his children that leadership is built through integrity, grit and determination. His life demonstrated that enduring success begins with character.
Anil taught his children that leadership is built through integrity, grit and determination. His life demonstrated that enduring success begins with character.
Zarna Somaia
Founder - Anil and Zarna Foundation
Zarna taught her family the power of belief, love, forgiveness and spirituality. By leaving her personal wealth to the Foundation, she transformed generosity into a legacy of self-transcendence.
Zarna taught her family the power of belief, love, forgiveness and spirituality. By leaving her personal wealth to the Foundation, she transformed generosity into a legacy of self-transcendence.
Lina Ashar
Founder Dreamtime Learning
Lina carries forward her father’s grit and leadership and her mother’s compassion and spiritual wisdom. Through education, she turns their values into opportunities for human flourishing.
Lina carries forward her father’s grit and leadership and her mother’s compassion and spiritual wisdom. Through education, she turns their values into opportunities for human flourishing.
Hiten Somaia
Managing Director
Simba
Hiten leads with quiet compassion and a deep sensitivity to injustice. Through Simba Conscious, he works to create dignity, learning and opportunity for mill workers’ children.
Hiten leads with quiet compassion and a deep sensitivity to injustice. Through Simba Conscious, he works to create dignity, learning and opportunity for mill workers’ children.
Kamal Somaia
Managing Director and CEO Simba
Kamal is the family’s anchor, translating purpose into enterprise and stewardship. His leadership helps ensure that commercial success becomes a source of lasting social value.
Kamal is the family’s anchor, translating purpose into enterprise and stewardship. His leadership helps ensure that commercial success becomes a source of lasting social value.
Drish Ashar
Procurement Head
at Simba
Drish brings deep empathy and an instinctive concern for people too often overlooked. He is committed to widening access, dignity and opportunity for every child.
Drish brings deep empathy and an instinctive concern for people too often overlooked. He is committed to widening access, dignity and opportunity for every child.
The Invitation
Together, meaningful change is not just possible, it is inevitable.
Zarna Somaia showed us that abundance finds its highest purpose when it creates possibility for another. Every contribution directly supports a child or young adult, never administration. You will see what your support enabled, with every learner’s privacy and dignity protected.
+91 9247597487 | foundation@somaiaff.com
The Invitation
Together, meaningful change is not just possible, it is inevitable.
Zarna Somaia showed us that abundance finds its highest purpose when it creates possibility for another. Every contribution directly supports a child or young adult, never administration. You will see what your support enabled, with every learner’s privacy and dignity protected.
+91 9247597487 | foundation@somaiaff.com
Zarna and Anil Somaia Family Foundation, A Registered Indian Trust (Reg No: [E/30884/Mumbai]
Zarna and Anil Somaia Family Foundation, A Registered Indian Trust (Reg No: [E/30884/Mumbai]
Frequently Asked
Questions
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What will my contribution support?
Your contribution can support a learner scholarship, access to learning technology, a Champion School programme, socio-emotional learning, or continuous teacher development. Every contribution is linked to a clearly defined area of impact.
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Will my contribution be used for administrative costs?
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How will I know the impact of my contribution?
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Can I support a specific child?
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Who can nominate a child, and how?
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Can a school benefit from this opportunity, and how can it be nominated?
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Which programmes can I support?
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Are contributions eligible for tax benefits?
Human Potential Should Never Depend on Privilege
Ideas matter only when they change how people live, learn and lead. Lina’s work shapes the thinking. The Foundation takes that thinking where access, opportunity and human potential need it most.
Human Potential Should Never Depend on Privilege
Ideas matter only when they change how people live, learn and lead. Lina’s work shapes the thinking. The Foundation takes that thinking where access, opportunity and human potential need it most.
Human Potential Should Never Depend on Privilege
Ideas matter only when they change how people live, learn and lead. Lina’s work shapes the thinking. The Foundation takes that thinking where access, opportunity and human potential need it most.