Jamil was six when he was adopted from a Mumbai orphanage by a Dutch couple in 1976.
Now, 42 years later, he wants to "give something back" to the Dogri Children's Home in the city, where he spent two years of his early life.
Jamil Meusen is now posted at Bergen-op-Zoom in the Netherlands as a chief superintendent of police, a rank equivalent to the commissioner of police in India.
After he was transferred from the Dongri shelter home, a centre for orphans and children in conflict with the law, to St Catherines Home, an orphanage in suburban Andheri, he was adopted by the Dutch couple and taken to the Netherlands.
"My Dutch parents raised me like I was one of their own. They gave all the chances and the love I could get, and I was very fortunate to have that," Meusen said.
"This is my home. It has beautiful surroundings which attract me, making me visit it again and again," Muesen told PTI while visiting the Dongri Children's Home earlier this week.
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"I have a lot of memories about this home. The gate in front (was) such a remarkable thing in my mind when I was in Netherlands. In 1986, when I came back, I found this gate," he said.
He first returned to Mumbai with his parents in 1986, when he was 16 years old.
Since 2013, he has visited the Dongri Children's Home and St Catherines Home three to four times.
"I remember the field, the school, the building, the farm on the top of the hill on way back, school on the right side...I still keep them (the memories) warm in my heart," said Meusen, excited to be visiting the Dongri institution once again.
He said he wanted to do something for it.
"I came here with my friends, with some projects for my brothers and sisters (at children's home)...as a part of that we are constructing a kitchen and a dining hall in the Dongri home and there will be more projects for these kids in near future," he said.
"I and these children have brother and sister's relationship. It is my duty to give something back to them," he said.
"I met some important people with my friends this time, to get some help for these children. I can tell people outside, specially big companies, that you have a lot of money, please do help," he said.
Talking about his success story, Meusen said, "I got a chance to study and to do all the things which helped me achieve what I wanted to be. I worked hard, as it was also a tough struggle."