An ardent believer of the importance of education for his children, twenty-eight years later, in 1923, Late Juma Premji Rupani (by then a wealthy merchant who had invested heavily in sugarcane plantations in anticipation of reaping benefits from sugar factories that Portuguese colonial government of the time had intended to set up in Mozambique) undertook a return voyage of 21 days (by ship) to India with his children, among them Mr. Mohamed Rupani (aged 11 years), and children (some orphans) from other families. The objective of the journey was to avail the children the opportunity to receive good education.

By 'a stroke of the pen' - so to speak - Late Juma Premji Rupani lost all his sugarcane investment and other wealth when the colonial government changed its mind and cancelled the sugar factory projects; the persons he assigned responsibility to run his affairs, while he was away in India, just did not know how to handle the critical situation and he could not get back to Mozambique in time to take control (there were no commercial airlines at that time). The changed economic situation brought about imense hardship to the family.

In 1950's Mrs. Rupani was an active social worker setting up and participating in challenging programmes on behalf of Municipal Council of Mombasa.