Service With a Smile - VIJAY VEMULAPALLIA serene smile and a philosophy of service is what characterize VIJAY VEMULAPALLI. What’s more, it is making a difference in the lives of the thousands of destitute children who need help the most. It takes a special person to keep the welfare of India’s impoverished children uppermost in mind, even while living in an affluent America.
Vijay Vemulapalli is just that kind of a person. Is it any wonder that he has been the chief coordinator in Atlanta for Vibha, Inc. (previously, CRY, Inc.), an organization dedicated to the welfare of underprivileged children in India?
Having had a blessed childhood himself, growing up in a middle-class household in the town of Vuyyuru near Vijayawada (Andhra Pradesh), Vijay has made it his mission to try and give the same to as many children as he can. In an India that has more than its fair share of disadvantaged children ? poor, unclad, homeless, hungry and worse ? this is no small undertaking.
As one who grew up playing street games such as “Yedu Rallu Aata” (game of seven stones), he knows that it is a sign of a normal childhood that is denied to many children who are bounded in labor if not simply loitering around as street urchins looking for their next meal.
Driven as he was, Vijay pursued his graduation at REC (Regional Engineering College) Durgapur and post graduate studies at IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) Kanpur and Mumbai where he received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering in 1992. The same year he followed his wife Madhuri to the U.S. where she was to complete her Masters degree.
While Madhuri successfully completed her MS. in Computer Science, he faced a challenge: his narrow niche in water resources management, a specialty branch of civil engineering, made it extremely difficult, if not impossible, to find a suitable job. Not to be daunted, he reengineered himself and earned a M.S. in Computer Science at the University of Tuscaloosa in Alabama in 1995.
After graduation, they moved to Atlanta. Today he is the proud father of Divya, his two-year-old daughter. He has remained in the Software Development profession since 1995 and is currently employed with Alltel as a consultant. Recipient of many community awards such as from the Indian Professionals Network, The Gandhi Foundation and the Telugu Association of Metro Atlanta, Vijay has made a place for himself amongst the respected notables of the Indian American community in Georgia.
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