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The Somaia Family Foundation
When One Child Rises, We All rise.
This is not charity. This is humanity’s
long-term survival strategy.
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The Somaia Family Foundation
When One Child Rises, We All rise.
This is not charity. This is humanity’s
long-term survival strategy.
SCROLL TO CONTINUE
The Somaia Family Foundation
When One Child Rises, We All rise.
This is not charity. This is humanity’s
long-term survival strategy.
SCROLL TO CONTINUE
Our Mission
Our Mission
To ensure that every child possesses the agency to command their own destiny regardless of their circumstances.
Dismantle
Barriers
Dismantle
Barriers
Eliminate the structural and financial hurdles that prevent underserved children from accessing world-class learning.
Eliminate the structural and financial hurdles that prevent underserved children from accessing world-class learning.
Cultivate
Agency
Cultivate
Agency
Equip every child with the internal infrastructure, resilience and self-mastery, needed to lead in a complex world.
Equip every child with the internal infrastructure, resilience and self-mastery, needed to lead in a complex world.
Systemic
Transformation
Systemic
Transformation
Champion learner-centric models that prioritise human potential over rote performance across all socio-economic strata.
Champion learner-centric models that prioritise human potential over rote performance across all socio-economic strata.
Generational
Equity
Generational
Equity
Foster a sustainable ecosystem where education serves as the ultimate catalyst for breaking cycles of inequity.
Foster a sustainable ecosystem where education serves as the ultimate catalyst for breaking cycles of inequity.
The Somaia Dreamtime
The Somaia
Dreamtime
The Somaia Dreamtime
Conscious Education Fund
Conscious Education Fund
Nominate A Dreamer
The Family Foundation is offering 100 children from ancillary and blue-collar backgrounds, including those of drivers, security, and maintenance teams, full access to a futuristic, conscious, and play-based learning ecosystem.
100 learners will be integrated within the Dreamtime Learning School with full scholarships through their K10 journey, with just nominators (employers, schools, teachers) facilitating access to a laptop or a tablet with internet access for 3-4 hours a day!
This helps blue-collar employees manage tuition fees and access challenges, while their children access global, authentic learning through Dreamtime Learning’s Online School. This breaks not only geographical barriers but also socio-economic ones.
Nominate A Dreamer
The Family Foundation is offering 100 children from ancillary and blue-collar backgrounds, including those of drivers, security, and maintenance teams, full access to a futuristic, conscious, and play-based learning ecosystem.
100 learners will be integrated within the Dreamtime Learning School with full scholarships through their K10 journey, with just nominators (employers, schools, teachers) facilitating access to a laptop or a tablet with internet access for 3-4 hours a day!
This helps blue-collar employees manage tuition fees and access challenges, while their children access global, authentic learning through Dreamtime Learning’s Online School. This breaks not only geographical barriers but also socio-economic ones.
Nominate A Dreamer
The Family Foundation is offering 100 children from ancillary and blue-collar backgrounds, including those of drivers, security, and maintenance teams, full access to a futuristic, conscious, and play-based learning ecosystem.
100 learners will be integrated within the Dreamtime Learning School with full scholarships through their K10 journey, with just nominators (employers, schools, teachers) facilitating access to a laptop or a tablet with internet access for 3-4 hours a day!
This helps blue-collar employees manage tuition fees and access challenges, while their children access global, authentic learning through Dreamtime Learning’s Online School. This breaks not only geographical barriers but also socio-economic ones.
Nominate A Champion School
The Family Foundation is offering 100 children from ancillary and blue-collar backgrounds, including those of drivers, security, and maintenance teams, full access to a futuristic, conscious, and play-based learning ecosystem.
100 learners will be integrated within the Dreamtime Learning School with full scholarships through their K10 journey, with just nominators (employers, schools, teachers) facilitating access to a laptop or a tablet with internet access for 3-4 hours a day!
This helps blue-collar employees manage tuition fees and access challenges, while their children access global, authentic learning through Dreamtime Learning’s Online School. This breaks not only geographical barriers but also socio-economic ones.
Nominate A Champion School
The Family Foundation is offering 100 children from ancillary and blue-collar backgrounds, including those of drivers, security, and maintenance teams, full access to a futuristic, conscious, and play-based learning ecosystem.
100 learners will be integrated within the Dreamtime Learning School with full scholarships through their K10 journey, with just nominators (employers, schools, teachers) facilitating access to a laptop or a tablet with internet access for 3-4 hours a day!
This helps blue-collar employees manage tuition fees and access challenges, while their children access global, authentic learning through Dreamtime Learning’s Online School. This breaks not only geographical barriers but also socio-economic ones.
Nominate A Champion School
The Family Foundation is offering 100 children from ancillary and blue-collar backgrounds, including those of drivers, security, and maintenance teams, full access to a futuristic, conscious, and play-based learning ecosystem.
100 learners will be integrated within the Dreamtime Learning School with full scholarships through their K10 journey, with just nominators (employers, schools, teachers) facilitating access to a laptop or a tablet with internet access for 3-4 hours a day!
This helps blue-collar employees manage tuition fees and access challenges, while their children access global, authentic learning through Dreamtime Learning’s Online School. This breaks not only geographical barriers but also socio-economic ones.
I believe education is the protection of a child’s wholeness. My parents didn’t just teach generosity, they embodied it, passing forward every kindness they received. Today, we face a scarcity of inner peace despite a world of abundance, a result of looking outward for validation rather than inward for understanding.
The Foundation exists to architect a future where self-mastery is a universal birthright, not a luxury. By providing access to conscious learning, we equip children with the agency to command their own destiny.
When a child rises with awareness, they don’t just change their life, they transform humanity.”
I believe education is the protection of a child’s wholeness. My parents didn’t just teach generosity, they embodied it, passing forward every kindness they received. Today, we face a scarcity of inner peace despite a world of abundance, a result of looking outward for validation rather than inward for understanding.
The Foundation exists to architect a future where self-mastery is a universal birthright, not a luxury. By providing access to conscious learning, we equip children with the agency to command their own destiny.
When a child rises with awareness, they don’t just change their life, they transform humanity.”
Lina Ashar
Founder: Dreamtime Learning
Founder Emeritus: Billabong High & Kangaroo Kids | TedX Speaker | Philanthropist | Author
A Legacy of Generosity
A Legacy of Generosity
A Legacy of
Generosity
My parents embodied radical generosity, showing me that what we receive, we must pass forward. This foundation honours their legacy, transcending a family’s commitment and passion into the human consciousness of our future.
- Lina -
My parents embodied radical generosity, showing me that what we receive, we must pass forward. This foundation honours their legacy, transcending a family’s commitment and passion into the human consciousness of our future.
- Lina -
My parents embodied radical generosity, showing me that what we receive, we must pass forward. This foundation honours their legacy, transcending a family’s commitment and passion into the human consciousness of our future.
- Lina -
It did not begin
just as an idea
It did not begin
just as an idea
It did not begin
just as an idea
Dreamtime Learning began as a conscious response to lived experience and the realisation that the world lacks awareness. Education must prepare children to understand their inner world, moving far beyond mere absorption of information.
Dreamtime Learning began as a conscious response to lived experience and the realisation that the world lacks awareness. Education must prepare children to understand their inner world, moving far beyond mere absorption of information.
Why the Somaia Family Foundation exists
Why the Somaia Family Foundation exists
Why the Somaia Family Foundation exists
We exist to ensure conscious learning isn't a luxury for the few. By bridging the access gap, a child’s awareness doesn't just change their life, it transforms what humanity eventually becomes.
We exist to ensure conscious learning isn't a luxury for the few. By bridging the access gap, a child’s awareness doesn't just change their life, it transforms what humanity eventually becomes.
What we do not heal in childhood, we meet in the world
What we do not heal in childhood, we meet in the world
What we do not heal in childhood, we meet in the world
Unhealed childhood wounds ripple outward, shaping societal disconnection and anxiety. Self-mastery is an essential investment in humanity, teaching children to stop reacting to the world and begin responding with awareness of the mind and heart.
Unhealed childhood wounds ripple outward, shaping societal disconnection and anxiety. Self-mastery is an essential investment in humanity, teaching children to stop reacting to the world and begin responding with awareness of the mind and heart.
Our Cause Champion
Our Cause Champion
Rhea Chakraborty
Rhea Chakraborty
Rhea Chakraborty profoundly resonates with Lina Ashar’s reinventing for the better philosophy, having navigated her own journey from public struggle to reclaimed agency. She understands that unhealed wounds shouldn't define one’s life trajectory. By championing the Somaia Family Foundation initiatives, Rhea aligns her personal resilience with the mission to provide Dreamers the tools for self-mastery. For Rhea, conscious education is the essential pen that allows every child to transcend a difficult life circumstance and author a future defined by awareness and empowered choice.
Rhea Chakraborty profoundly resonates with Lina Ashar’s reinventing for the better philosophy, having navigated her own journey from public struggle to reclaimed agency. She understands that unhealed wounds shouldn't define one’s life trajectory. By championing the Somaia Family Foundation initiatives, Rhea aligns her personal resilience with the mission to provide Dreamers the tools for self-mastery. For Rhea, conscious education is the essential pen that allows every child to transcend a difficult life circumstance and author a future defined by awareness and empowered choice.
The Somaia Family
The Somaia Family
Anil Somaia
Founder Simba
Anil Somaia, founder of Simba, taught his children leadership, integrity, grit and determination, showing that true success begins with mindset.
Darsh Agarwal
Founder Simba
Anil Somaia, founder of Simba, taught his children leadership, integrity, grit and determination, showing that true success begins with mindset.
Anil Somaia
Founder Simba
Anil Somaia, founder of Simba, taught his children leadership, integrity, grit and determination, showing that true success begins with mindset.
Zarna Somaia
Founder - Anil and Zarna Foundation
Zarna Somaia taught her children the power of belief, love, forgiveness and spirituality, showing that true giving has the power to transform lives.
Darsh Agarwal
Founder - Anil and Zarna Foundation
Zarna Somaia taught her children the power of belief, love, forgiveness and spirituality, showing that true giving has the power to transform lives.
Zarna Somaia
Founder - Anil and Zarna Foundation
Zarna Somaia taught her children the power of belief, love, forgiveness and spirituality, showing that true giving has the power to transform lives.
Lina Ashar
Founder Dreamtime Learning
Lina Ashar carries forward the legacy of both her parents, embodying her father’s grit and leadership and her mother’s compassion and spirit.
Lina Ashar
Founder Dreamtime Learning
Lina Ashar carries forward the legacy of both her parents, embodying her father’s grit and leadership and her mother’s compassion and spirit.
Lina Ashar
Founder Dreamtime Learning
Lina Ashar carries forward the legacy of both her parents, embodying her father’s grit and leadership and her mother’s compassion and spirit.
Hiten Somaia
Managing Director Simba
Hiten leads with quiet compassion, moved by injustice, founding Simba Conscious to uplift mill workers’ children with dignity and opportunity.
Hiten Somaia
Managing Director Simba
Hiten leads with quiet compassion, moved by injustice, founding Simba Conscious to uplift mill workers’ children with dignity and opportunity.
Hiten Somaia
Managing Director Simba
Hiten leads with quiet compassion, moved by injustice, founding Simba Conscious to uplift mill workers’ children with dignity and opportunity.
Kamal Somaia
Managing Director and CEO Simba
Kamal, our family’s anchor and CEO of Simba, inspires Lina’s path into education, as she builds meaning for learners and gives him motivation to earn more.
Kamal Somaia
Managing Director and CEO Simba
Kamal, our family’s anchor and CEO of Simba, inspires Lina’s path into education, as she builds meaning for learners and gives him motivation to earn more.
Kamal Somaia
Managing Director and CEO Simba
Kamal, our family’s anchor and CEO of Simba, inspires Lina’s path into education, as she builds meaning for learners and gives him motivation to earn more.
Drish Ashar
Procurement Head at Simba
Drish, an old soul, carries deep empathy for the common man, driven to expand access and opportunity for every child.
Drish Ashar
Procurement Head at Simba
Drish, an old soul, carries deep empathy for the common man, driven to expand access and opportunity for every child.
Drish Ashar
Procurement Head at Simba
Drish, an old soul, carries deep empathy for the common man, driven to expand access and opportunity for every child.
Join the Movement
Join the Movement
Join the Movement
Together, meaningful change is not just possible, it is inevitable.
Together, meaningful change is not just possible, it is inevitable.
We prioritise radical transparency and maximum impact. To honor our promise and your commitment, the entirety of your contribution goes directly toward student learning, ensuring that the full weight of your investment reaches the learner without being diluted by administrative costs.
We prioritise radical transparency and maximum impact. To honor our promise and your commitment, the entirety of your contribution goes directly toward student learning, ensuring that the full weight of your investment reaches the learner without being diluted by administrative costs.
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]
Zarna and Anil Somaia Family Foundation, A Registered Indian Trust (Reg No: [E/30884/Mumbai]
Voices that believe the Dream
Voices that believe the Dream
Voices that believe the Dream
Ready to give back to the society?
We invite communities, companies, and individuals to partner with us in giving children the opportunity, dignity, and learning they deserve.
Ready to give back to the society?
We invite communities, companies, and individuals to partner with us in giving children the opportunity, dignity, and learning they deserve.
Ready to give back to the society?
We invite communities, companies, and individuals to partner with us in giving children the opportunity, dignity, and learning they deserve.
Frequently Asked Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
Why does education need to change in the age of AI?
By addressing both access and depth. We combine foundational literacy with emotional intelligence and self-mastery, helping children understand how they think and feel so they can navigate life with resilience and clarity.
2. How can companies partner with the Foundation?
Through CSR initiatives (Schedule VII), companies can sponsor learners, bridge learning poverty, and support community cohorts. This ensures compliant, high-impact investment in future-ready education for the children of extended workforces.
3. Can individuals sponsor or support a child?
Absolutely. Individuals can sponsor children within their own circles such as the children of household staff and caregivers, altering the trajectory of entire families through a single act of opportunity.
4. How does Dreamtime Learning contribute to the Foundation’s mission?
Dreamtime Learning provides a high-quality environment where our sponsored learners thrive. The Foundation subsidizes this world-class education to ensure future-ready resources are a universal right, not a privileged luxury.
5. What long-term impact does the Foundation aim to create?
We strive for generational equity. By empowering children to think independently and regulate emotions, we break the cycle of educational inequity and foster a society of conscious, capable individuals
6. How does the Foundation ensure transparency and measure impact?
We maintain responsible stewardship through transparent reporting. Impact is measured via literacy gains, confidence, and self-leadership outcomes, ensuring every contribution creates measurable and meaningful change.
1. How does the Foundation create impact?
By addressing both access and depth. We combine foundational literacy with emotional intelligence and self-mastery, helping children understand how they think and feel so they can navigate life with resilience and clarity.
2. How can companies partner with the Foundation?
Through CSR initiatives (Schedule VII), companies can sponsor learners, bridge learning poverty, and support community cohorts. This ensures compliant, high-impact investment in future-ready education for the children of extended workforces.
3. Can individuals sponsor or support a child?
Absolutely. Individuals can sponsor children within their own circles such as the children of household staff and caregivers, altering the trajectory of entire families through a single act of opportunity.
4. How does Dreamtime Learning contribute to the Foundation’s mission?
Dreamtime Learning provides a high-quality environment where our sponsored learners thrive. The Foundation subsidizes this world-class education to ensure future-ready resources are a universal right, not a privileged luxury.
5. What long-term impact does the Foundation aim to create?
We strive for generational equity. By empowering children to think independently and regulate emotions, we break the cycle of educational inequity and foster a society of conscious, capable individuals
6. How does the Foundation ensure transparency and measure impact?
We maintain responsible stewardship through transparent reporting. Impact is measured via literacy gains, confidence, and self-leadership outcomes, ensuring every contribution creates measurable and meaningful change.
1. How does the Foundation create impact?
By addressing both access and depth. We combine foundational literacy with emotional intelligence and self-mastery, helping children understand how they think and feel so they can navigate life with resilience and clarity.
2. How can companies partner with the Foundation?
Through CSR initiatives (Schedule VII), companies can sponsor learners, bridge learning poverty, and support community cohorts. This ensures compliant, high-impact investment in future-ready education for the children of extended workforces.
3. Can individuals sponsor or support a child?
Absolutely. Individuals can sponsor children within their own circles such as the children of household staff and caregivers, altering the trajectory of entire families through a single act of opportunity.
4. How does Dreamtime Learning contribute to the Foundation’s mission?
Dreamtime Learning provides a high-quality environment where our sponsored learners thrive. The Foundation subsidizes this world-class education to ensure future-ready resources are a universal right, not a privileged luxury.
5. What long-term impact does the Foundation aim to create?
We strive for generational equity. By empowering children to think independently and regulate emotions, we break the cycle of educational inequity and foster a society of conscious, capable individuals
6. How does the Foundation ensure transparency and measure impact?
We maintain responsible stewardship through transparent reporting. Impact is measured via literacy gains, confidence, and self-leadership outcomes, ensuring every contribution creates measurable and meaningful change.
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Sherly Rajan Road, Bandra West, Mumbai 400050.
Enquiry : +91 93727 60727
© 2026 Dreamtime Learning. All rights reserved.
Sherly Rajan Road, Bandra West, Mumbai 400050.
Enquiry : +91 93727 60727
© 2026 Dreamtime Learning. All rights reserved.