Kanadave

Kanadave has traveled in 52 countries - in Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia, He is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley (B.A.) and the Harvard Law School (LLB, J.D.). He is licensed to practice law in California, Kansas, and before the U.S. Supreme Court.

He spent one year in the MBA program at Stanford Business School. After one year, he dropped out and went to San Francisco to begin his own entrepreneurial business. He built a successful innovative educational enterprise reported in Time Magazine twice, the New Yorker Magazine, U.S. News and World Report and by media as far away as Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Later, he built a law firm in San Diego, but found the practice of law too confining. Not sure of what he wanted to do with his life, he went on a vision quest to the middle of the Sahara. He spent 40 days there, fasting - water only - for thirty of those days. At the end of that quest, he felt he wanted to make his life count by doing something for the poor of the world.

He did humanitarian work in the slums of Lopez Portillo outside Mexico City, took part in medical clinics on the Miskito Coast of Honduras for refugees from Nicaragua on the "Trail of Tears," and took aid to Mozambican refugees in South Africa. He smuggled Bibles and clothing to the underground church in the U.S.S.R.

He took a semi-truckload of $100,000 of seeds and medical supplies through Mexico and Guatemala for the poor of El Salvador during their civil war. Once he reached El Salvador, the Salvadoran army stole all his goods. Through the help of USAID, the Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Minister of Health, and the sub-director of the dreaded National Guard, he was able to get back more than half of the seeds and supplies and was able to distribute them in many very poor villages.

During the seven months he was there, he met and married his wife. Together, they searched the back country of El Salvador finding severely burned children. Working with Benjamin Bloom Hospital and Dr. Antonio Bonilla, they were able to bring children to Shriners Hospital in Los Angeles for reconstructive surgery.

After they had their first child, they went to Calcutta (Kolkata), India to set up a health mission for the quarter million people living on the streets. While there, he wrote his Harvard classmate and section mate, Supreme Court Justice David Souter. "Life has taken you to the very top. It has taken me to the very bottom of incredible poverty." During their six months in Calcutta, he worked with Mother Teresa at Kalighat, her first home for the destitute and dying. When the Missionaries of Charity learned that he had a four-month-old baby at home a few blocks away, they discouraged him from further work with them because of the abundance of disease and their concern for the baby. However, they did take their baby daughter to Mother Teresa at the Mother House, and she threw the baby up in the air, saying, "Maybe one day you will be a Missionary of Charity." He was asked to read the Bible to Mother Teresa and her nuns at a Maundy Thursday service during Holy Week.

Since 1981, he has prepared more than 2,400 successful applications for nonprofits to obtain their 501c3 status with the IRS. Those nonprofits are operating all around the world, improving the lives of multitudes of people.

Kanadave is looking for people who want to help establish Kanatara globally as an economic, educational, social, and spiritual platform so that all may discover their purpose in life and achieve their destiny, making the world a better place for everyone. Their destiny is to be a catalyst for moving into the next stage of humankind's development and entering the golden age. He says, "My faith and joy are bubbling up inside of me to know that we are living in this most exciting time in earth's history." He is looking for entrepreneurs to establish Kanaversity and local Kanatara embassies and consulates all over the world.