World Malayalee Council (WMC) is a global organization with a mission to network Malayalees, create a global community able to communicate each other and continue the connection through generations so that Malayalee identity will live forever around the world. WMC promotes good will and friendship among all Malayalees. WMC encourages Malayalees to help each other especially those in need. WMC demands its members to be good individuals and good citizens. WMC is not a Pravasi organization rather it is a global organization of all Malayalees. It is a non-sectarian, non-political community organization.
World Malayalee Council (WMC) was formed on July 3, 1995 on the last day of the first World Malayalee Convention in New Jersey USA. Mr. T.N. Seshan, the former Chief Election Commission of India was elected the first chairman, Dr, Babu Paul IAS, the vice chairman and Mr. K.P.P nambiar as the vice president. Mr. Babu Paul (1998-2000), The world famous physicist Padmvibhushan Dr. George Sudarsan (2000-2002), Mrs. Lekha Srenivasan (2002-2004) and WMC founder leader Andrew Papapchen (2004-2008) served as the chairpersons.
Mr. Soman Baby, Bahrain was elected chairman for the term 2008-2010 and reelected for the 2010-2012 term. Mr. V.C. Praveen, Chennai was elected the global president, Mr. George Kakkanatt, Gen. Secretary and Mr. Ajith Menon, Treasurer for the term 2010-2012. Gopla Pillai, Dalls, USA, Jolly Thadathil, Germany and Sicily Jacob, Nigeria were elected vice chairpersons, A.S. Jose and Joy Kochattu, Switzerland were elected Vice presidents and Anoop Dhawanthiri, Kerala was elected Associate secretary.
WMC has a three tier organizational structure with a global council, six regional councils in America, Europe, Africa, Middle east, India and far east & Australia and local chapters called provinces. Global, regional and provincial councils has a cabinet responsible for the day to day affairs presided over by the president and an executive council, which is the legislative body and electoral college responsible for policy making and electing officers presided over by the chairman.
Membership in WMC is in the provincial level. WMC currently has 48 provinces covering 34 countries around the world.
WMC has implemented several projects in Kerala to help the economically disadvantaged, which include village adoption, women’s employment training, scholarship for poor children, old age care etc. WMC has provided timely help to the Tsunami victims in Quilon and Alleppy districts in Kerala and has built a community center and library in Ayiramthengu. WMC has established a Mobile health Care unit, which provided home health care for the poor in various districts in Kerala. WMC provinces in Uganda, Nigeria, South Africa, Chennai, Delhi, Bangalore, Houston, New Jersey, Dallas, Kuwait, Riyadh, Dammam, Jeddha, Bahrain etc. have implemented local charitable projects. Chennai province through its Hridayaragam project assisted 165 poor children with heart problems to undergo heart surgeries in Madras Medical Mission hospital.
The most recent and successful project of WMC is Kerala is Altius to build a new generation of globally competent and socially committed Malayalees. It started with district camps where about 100 students attended in each district participated. A final state camp was held in Lulu Center, Trichur on December 28 and 29 in which 12oo college students participated. The program was inaugurated by the chief Just of India, which was attended by Padmasree G.K. Menon, Yousef Ali etc. A follow up one day camp was held in Muscot Hotel, Trivandrum on January 4 and former president of India Dr. Abdul Khalam addressed the participants and gave inspiration. WMC currently is in the process of forming Altus clubs in all colleges in Kerala. About 20 students attended the WMC seventh global conference in Doha.
WMC organizes biennial conferences to conduct official meetings and election of global officials and set the agenda for the future. The 2008 sixth global conference is being conducted in Singapore. Previous biennial conferences were held in Singapore (2008), Cochi (2006), Bahrain (2004), Dingden, Germany (2002) and Dallas, USA (2000). WMC seventh global conference and fifteenth anniversary is scheduled was held in Doha, Qatar from July 28-30, 2010. The eighth global conference is scheduled to be held in Dallas, Texas, USA in May 2012.