Founder - Shri Latesh Shah

“My Mission is to transform 60 crore people through Love, Peace, Knowledge & Celebration. I shall open 10,000 centers of World Human Development Center allover the World within 10 years. My intention is to be always joyful through love & contribution to this world”.

Latesh Shah, the visionary... transformer... motivational speaker 'wandered' all over India, all across the world, even to the Himalayas for over 20 years to gain a rare & illuminating insight into life.

As the originator of the street play culture, performing a world record of 21 shows in 24 hours (45 minutes each) on the streets of Mumbai. The powerful subject attracted not only heavy crowds running into thousands but also got the attention of people like Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Mrs. Vijayalaxmi Pandit and Shekhar Kapoor.

As Writer-Producer-Director-Trainer and Actor ('CHITKAR' his psycho-social drama, ran to packed houses for 15 years!) Latesh Shah focused on the turbulence in the world of women. About 20 years ago when AIDS was relatively unknown to India he wrote & directed 'Mahayatra' a heart-wrenching family drama on the subject. He has worked with Paresh Raval, Shafi Inamdar, Tabu, Raveena Tandon, Sujata Mehta, Supriya Pathak, and Madhur Bhandarkar…

As a son-of the-soil Latesh has done pioneering work in transforming the arid desert land of Kutch into a flourishing green belt. A first in the world: in a part of his 1000 acre farm in Kutch is the biggest oil-seed plantation of “Salvadora”. He founded the Kutch Vagad Fauj (KVF) for the betterment of the Kutchhi community. In the face of the Kutch earthquake devastation KVF rebuilt the first village within six months in Bhachau district.

Riding the wave of social change that swept the country in 1975 Mumbai - based Latesh Shah joined Shri Jai Prakash Narayan's “Navnirman movement” eventually becoming its president.

And finally Latesh Shah is now looking beyond the horizon and national frontier. His World Human Development Center family is bringing about a dramatic transformation in the lives of the people...making a lot of difference in society…universally.