Founder, Chairman and CEO of MVS, one of America’s fastest-growing privately-owned IT companies, Mr. Vipin Desai is also one of our most engaged and supportive donors.  He has even traveled twice to India to see the work VFF does firsthand. Mr. Desai has solely funded a wide range of projects including several bicycle projects, a water purification plant, and even helped design and fund a project that would train women to start tailoring businesses. Throughout his life, Mr. Desai has proven he leads a life of action, empowering people in India as well as succeeding in business in the U.S.

Prior to starting MVS, Mr. Desai served as an IT specialist for the Government of the District of Columbia. In this capacity, he managed the development of software applications that improved data collection and retrieval processes and allowed for more effective social services and healthcare administration. Later on, in 1997, Mr. Desai founded MVS, an IT company committed to improving government IT systems. During his 22 year tenure as the  President and CEO of MVS, the company was recognized three times as one of the fastest-growing private companies in America by Inc. Magazine,  named Government Contractor of the Year by American Express and Top 75 Fastest Growing Companies in Washington metropolitan area by Washington Business Journal. In addition to serving as Chairman and CEO of MVS, Mr. Desai is a real estate investor, managing commercial real estate in the Washington DC area, and the founder of Vcare Charitable Foundation, which donates to organizations like VFF  that make the world a better place for the less fortunate.

“I believe that education is the key to transforming people’s lives, it transformed mine.” 

– Vipin Desai 

Mr. Desai’s father believed firmly in the importance of education: a value that he passed on to his two children. In collaboration with VFF, Mr. Desai has helped promote children’s access to education through the bicycle program. In rural areas of India, more than 60% of children, especially girls, drop out of school after 5th grade due to a lack of transportation and adequate school facilities in their villages. Students have to walk an average of 4.5 miles each way every day if they wish to attend high school. In collaboration with extraordinary donors like Mr. Desai, VFF has worked to meet this need by supplying bicycles to students wishing to continue their education. VFF has already distributed 23,685 bicycles, approximately 200 of them purchased thanks to the contributions of Mr. Desai.

In 2017 and 2019, Mr. Desai traveled to India to see VFF operations and our on-going projects. While there, he was struck by how women, especially women with disabilities, widows, and others in similar situations are ostracized in their communities and wanted to help. Recognizing that alternative income sources can be the difference between life and death in a rain-dependent agricultural economy and that having an employable trade can increase a woman’s prestige and respect in her community, Mr. Desai resolved to help women get the training they need to support themselves and their families. He is now funding a women’s tailor training program to teach women from economically marginalized backgrounds to sew and set up their own businesses. The program will reach 14 women from 5 villages.

Mr. Desai continues to inspire us and is currently working with VFF to fund a water purification project that will support both people and animals in a particularly remote and drought-stricken region of Anantapur District.

We are thankful for Mr. Desai’s support of VFF and to our family of donors and supporters who are committed to improving the lives of people in rural India.