PHILANTHROPIC PRODIGY
Shaan Khurana never met his grandmother, Swadesh Khurana. She passed away before he was born. The 11-year-old boy, who enjoys acting and playing basketball, says he feels connected to his grandmother by carrying on her tradition of helping others. “Helping other people was healing to my Dadi Ji (grandmother) and now to me,” says Shaan. “I am going to continue what she did and what my grandfather is doing.” Balwant Khurana, Shaan’s grandfather, is generously endowing The Swadesh Khurana Endowment in Stroke Care at Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital. He began the endowment in 2008 after his wife, Shaan’s grandmother, unexpectedly died from stroke. Shaan and his 5-year-old sister, Seva Khurana, are opting to continue a generous and unique way of celebrating their birthdays that their parents, Dr. Sippi Khurana and Ajay Khurana, began for the children when they were younger. In lieu of birthday presents, the family encourages friends to make gifts of any size to the fund in his grandmother’s name. SHAAN KHURANA
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Houston Methodist Hospital Foundation
