In this inspiring episode of "The Middle Road" podcast, host Nishant Malhotra engages in a thought-provoking discussion with one of the winners of the inaugural Kusum Social Impact Award - Dr O.P. Bhalla Foundation. This prestigious award, sponsored by the Center for Theory of Change in New York, recognizes individuals and organizations making significant strides in various sectors, including healthcare, education, and environmental conservation.
Nishant takes a moment to acknowledge the passion and dedication of all the participants, including those who did not win, emphasizing that their efforts are equally valuable and appreciated. The spotlight then turns to the inaugural winners: Dr. Simi Mishra from Connecting Dreams, Shruthi Iyer from FMCH India, and the Dr. O.P. Bhalla Foundation.
A captivating interview with Dr. Vishali Mathur from the Dr. O.P. Bhalla Foundation delves into the organization's impressive work, including health camps, philanthropic initiatives, skill development programs, and environmental projects. Dr. Mathur shares valuable insights into the challenges and taboos faced while working in the social impact sector, as well as the heartening outcomes and milestones achieved through their tireless efforts.
Throughout the episode, listeners gain a profound understanding of the dedication and perseverance required to drive social change. The winners' stories serve as a powerful reminder that, despite obstacles, it is possible to make a meaningful difference in society. As the episode concludes, Nishant expresses sincere appreciation for all the participants, winners, and sponsors, underscoring the collective spirit of social good that underpins the Kusum Social Impact Award.
Tune in to this uplifting episode of "The Middle Road" podcast and be inspired by the incredible work being done by changemakers across various fields. Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast for more engaging discussions on social impact, and join the conversation on social media using the #SocialImpactAward
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(00:00):
Hello, everyone. This is Nishant Dhanudra from The Middle Road.
Very excited to have somebody from the OP Bala Foundation to speak about the
Kusum Social Impact Award.
But first, to just give you a heads up, the Kusum Social Impact Award was the
first inaugural Social Impact Award from The Middle Road.
And I want to first thank Dr. Helen Clark and Center for Theory of Change New
(00:23):
York for sponsoring this event, for sponsoring the Kusum Social Impact Awards.
There were quite a few participants, although not so many in number. This is the first time.
I want to first thank STEM Club Africa for filling in the application.
I could not interview the person. That's one of the reasons why they were not
able to win the award. Then I want to thank Chinnipa Das, who is the founder
(00:45):
of Change the Narratives. I want to thank him for applying.
Then there were three winners this time. So Dr.
Simi Mishra from Connecting Dreams.
Shruti Iyer from FMCH India. That's co-founder and CEO at Foundation for Mother and Child India.
I want to thank them and of course, Dr. O.P. Balla Foundation.
So I want to thank everybody for applying and to the winners.
(01:08):
So this time there were three winners. This is the first time I held the Social Impact Award.
So, you know, this was a learning experience for me.
There was an application form. There's also a small prize money,
which is about $100 shared among all the winners.
And then there was video recording where people had to come and,
(01:30):
you know, I interviewed them for about half an hour.
Very delighted first to feature Dr.
Vishali Mathur. the other two winners dr semi
and shruti were not available or not free the vishali
matra i want to really thank you i i deeply uh
you know i'm very delighted that you filled in the application you're doing
fantastic work uh within you know a lot of spheres it's not only in healthcare
(01:53):
but in education space you know for old age so you have done quite a few uh
work i just wanted you to first you know you could speak about how you came to know about the,
about the Middle Road Sushant Impact Awards and then you could you know speak
about your work to a global audience.
Thank you so much, Nishant. So, we are thankful that you found our work good
(02:21):
enough to be selected as a winner.
And Dr. Opebhalla Foundation was established in 2014 in the memory of our founder, visionary Dr.
Opebhalla ji, who was a philanthropist, of course, and he established Manavrashna as an education group.
So in his memory this foundation was established
(02:42):
and foundation has been working on various objectives
which are basically education gender equality health
care geriatric care environment and we
have multiple initiatives which we are working on so
to begin with like we have an initiative with
wherein we organize health camps for the community
free health camps and these health camps generally
(03:04):
have a general physician going in
along with dental checkups eye checkups mental
wellness nutrition physiotherapy all these
sort of things which are generally ignored by the people people go in for regular
health checkups but they never talk about their mental wellness they never talk
about their food they never talk about nutrition so that's what the objective
(03:28):
of our health camp says that we are touch those aspects which are.
Generally which people are generally unaware of then
we have mega blood donation camps which happens
once in a year and we have till date already donated
around 12 000 units and then
we have a program called ek murthi daan this
(03:49):
program our founder used to believe that
in fact he wanted that no one on this
planet should sleep hungry everybody should be fed
so this program is basically wherein
we donate dry grains to the
needy and till date we have already donated 1 lakh 17 thousands of dry grains
(04:12):
to various NGOs and poor people during in fact during COVID times we had donated
huge quantities to the migrant laborers who had nowhere to go in for Then there is a program.
Called caution we are working
on the skill development of the underprivileged children because
(04:32):
it has been found that
most of the students drop in out of drop
in drop out of their college after schools they
don't go to college actually and at that stage
when they are when they are only grade 12 pass and
they are you know they don't
take up further education they are not even job ready
(04:54):
they do not get proper job and then they
end up working as labor so we are providing
them basic computer training so that at least even if
if by any chance they drop out of school of their
college they can at least work as a data entry operator so
we are training them on basic computer skills and you won't believe that when
(05:14):
the students come to us they don't even know how to hold a mouse and how to
switch on a CPU and after after the course they are pretty proficient in their
in Microsoft Office at least.
Then there is a program called Mark Darshan again
for government school students wherein we have
(05:34):
been training we have been giving career guidance to
the students so it's not that we just go and talk
about career and opportunities we take a
proper psychometric test for them where the
test is for around two hours we go in for a
proper test for grade 9 to 12 students and
after that as per their results we give them a one-on-one counseling
(05:55):
on what programs or what courses they can pursue once they are you know the
first thing is when they are in grade 9 or 10 it is difficult for them to decide
which subject to choose so we give them We provide them help for choosing their subjects.
And in the grade 11 and 12, after they have already chosen their subjects,
(06:16):
we help them with what all options do they have as per their subject choice
and as per their likings.
And what courses and which colleges can they opt in for.
So that's a program called Mark Darshan, which we are working on.
In the environment this is all for education then for
environment i just had a question sorry to
(06:36):
interrupt you in education space i think you spent a
sizable amount of money on the education of government
school students in faridabad in
india is is that right that's right that's right because
we had been running a program called teacher on
call wherein we were spending around
more than one lakh rupees a month for the
(06:57):
wherein and the program was that
we were providing remedial classes to students
from grade six to ten over a
phone call so they don't need to go anywhere they don't have to
you know spend any money they just have to use a basic phone is what they need
and they can call on a toll-free number and there were more than 300 teachers
(07:18):
available subject-wise who were there to help them and the teachers you know
the students used to call up like this that That on this page, there is a question.
There is a question on this page. There is a paragraph which I cannot understand.
And the teachers used to guide them for like quite a long duration.
And it was all free, of course, for all the students who wanted to register under it.
Okay. And did it give results? I mean, because... Yes, yes. We did analyze the
(07:44):
results pre and post the program.
So before the program, those, they were, you know, tremendous.
They were good results. There were quite a lot of improvement in their results.
Their academics improved, their interest improved.
And we also found that though we were not giving them English speaking classes or something,
but we found that after talking to our teachers, being in regular touch with
(08:09):
them, they were pretty confident and they were quite fluent in their English also.
So that was also one of the programs. Then for environment, we have been planting
trees every year, like around 5,000 trees every year are planted in the community.
Other than that, we are working on plastic waste segregation and we are promoting,
(08:30):
you know, motivating people to not throw away plastic in their dustbins.
So for waste paper recycling, right? We have already recycled.
So for waste paper, there is a project called RADHI.
Wherein we have already recycled around 50,000 kgs of paper.
And those papers are then converted to notebooks, which are finally donated
(08:52):
to government school students.
And the program for the plastic segregation, which I'm talking about,
is called Green Grehe, wherein we are recycling plastic to benches,
which these benches are then donated to community areas.
Okay, that's very nice. We have already donated around five benches till date.
Okay. the sixth one is on way then there
(09:15):
is a project for women empowerment we have a project called give
her wings to fly this program is mainly meant
to you know counsel and give awareness on menstrual hygiene because it has been
observed that people especially girls especially in the rural areas all from
the underprivileged section have a lot of taboos regarding menstruation so So
(09:38):
some things like you should not do this,
you should not do that, you can't do this, you can't do that, you can't talk about it.
They don't even like or they are creating awareness on menstruation and menstrual
hygiene, as well as personality development and grooming.
And in this program, we also donate sanitary napkins.
(09:59):
So till date, we have donated around 50,000 sanitary napkins in the community.
So, this is one of the projects on women empowerment.
Then I did mention about Ek Muthi Daan. And we have also started a project wherein
we are promoting organ donation, which was also called by our Prime Minister.
(10:24):
He also requested people to register for organ donation. So, we are working on that.
Ananya Mukta. we call it anemia mukta manavrasana because a lot of students
we have found that are anemic and are not even aware about the side effects
of being anemic and how to tackle it so we,
(10:46):
have nutritionist on panel and a proper follow up is done with the students
and they are being made aware about the side effects of anemia and then how
to tackle it with their diet dietary modifications and all these things
so that is also one of the projects yeah this
is i think uh you know in western countries so you're
(11:09):
saying deliberately people don't need just to be slim is
that what among specifically about the side effects of they think that's if
something is i mean if their hemoglobins are low it's okay but they don't realize
what are the side effects and how it is affecting them as a personal person
also i mean it's not just about their health it's about their mental
(11:31):
wellness, their capacity to work,
their energy levels, everything goes down.
And so I just had, what were the, how would you say, what were the sort of milestones
you could talk about, which happened over a period of time?
And were they like resistances where, you know, you had a problem?
How did you overcome that?
(11:51):
The most, see, the milestones are the, you know, the figures which we have achieved till date.
Like we have done one ladle for 17 000
kgs of grains 50 000 sanitary
napkins 35 around 40 000
kgs of paper waste
which have been reached not 1000 kgs
(12:13):
of plastic which is like a huge number i would
say 1200 kgs now because the sixth bench is
on way so six thousand twelve thousand kgs
of plastic which is again a huge amount 25 000
plants all these are of course
our milestones and achievements which have come up
bit by bit and while working
(12:35):
in the community there is always resistance regarding anything
new so when when i talk about even
when i talk about our health camps people don't really
understand the importance of a good diet in
their lifestyle or maybe the mental wellness it is difficult in in fact very
difficult to motivate people to come in and talk to our psychologist about their
(13:00):
problems they find that they they you know there is a big taboo which says that
if you're talking about psychology it means that you are not that you are so you know,
what should i say that you're you're you're mentally imbalanced they which is a major.
Taboo in the society and people just don't want to talk about their psychological
(13:21):
problems in fact even stress or pressure regarding their exams is not considered to be a problem,
convincing students that you know the examination
stress can be tackled and it can be handled is a task it's it's a difficult
thing then community may like talking to girls regarding menstrual hygiene is
(13:45):
is a major problem they don't want to talk about it yeah because it's a taboo like for,
it's a taboo so what we do is we ensure that
when we go and talk to them the team comprises of boys as well because we also
want to give them a message that even the men should know that and the men should
be there to help you out to support you mentally physically so we make we We ensure that our team,
(14:12):
when it goes for a menstrual hygiene talk or workshop like that,
it should also comprise of some boys.
And it is always difficult to make the girls talk about it or be a little open
about it. That is a major problem.
It's not so easy. You just can't go and talk to them out of nowhere.
(14:37):
That's true. And over a period of time, what do you think, how did,
one I wanted to ask is, you know, what were the key struggles you had, how did you overcome it?
And would you like to sort of share an experience which you think,
you know, you find it very motivating or inspiring?
So i will talk about this green
program which which is our plastic donation drive plastic
(15:00):
segregation drive so we do
offer internships to students so last
year in 2023 school students came up to us for some internship for some 15 days
and these students we were like surprised with they were from they were students
of grade 9 to 12 and they were divided in two groups and And one of the group was working on PCOD,
(15:26):
which and they were creating awareness amongst the community regarding PCOD
because people generally don't know about it.
And the other group came up with this idea of green grey hair,
wherein they conducted a survey at the first place, wherein they found that
normally the community.
Even the educated community doesn't even know that plastic can be segregated.
(15:51):
And there are harmful effects of plastic
so they were just not aware of it
and after that they started this
project and collected started you know informing people and the major challenge
was that people were not ready to segregate their waste they just did not want
(16:12):
to put the waste in two dustbins or three dustbins they wanted everything to
be kept in one and just throw it
away so that came up as a challenge and finally after a lot of motivation and
a lot of talks we i would not say not all but we could at least motivate of
(16:33):
their waste and give the plastic to us.
You know, you've grown substantially. I mean, there are a lot of projects you're
doing. It's not in one space.
You have quite a few, you know, in sustainability, climate change,
education, various aspects of that. I want to thank Dr.
Vishali Mathur and Dr. O. P. Bala Foundation for being part of the inaugural
(16:55):
Kusum Social Impact Award from the Middle Road.
You can always check out www.themiddleroad.org.
There was some problem with the recording, so I could not cover a couple of questions Dr.
Vishali Mathur actually spoke about. However, I think I was able to cover most
of the questions from Dr. O. P. Bala Foundation.
Somehow, we could not do the subsequent podcast. I also want to thank all the
(17:19):
people who applied and other winners, including Dr.
Simi Mishra from Connecting Dreams, Shruti Ayer from FMCH India,
which is she's the co-founder and CEO at Foundation for Mother and Child Health India.
I want to thank all the participants in it. I also want to thank Center for
Theory of Change for sponsoring the first Kusub Shoshan Impact Award. Have a good one.
Hello, everyone. This is Nishant Dhanudra from The Middle Road.
Very excited to have somebody from the OP Bala Foundation to speak about the
Kusum Social Impact Award.
But first, to just give you a heads up, the Kusum Social Impact Award was the
first inaugural Social Impact Award from The Middle Road.
And I want to first thank Dr. Helen Clark and Center for Theory of Change New
(00:23):
York for sponsoring this event, for sponsoring the Kusum Social Impact Awards.
There were quite a few participants, although not so many in number. This is the first time.
I want to first thank STEM Club Africa for filling in the application.
I could not interview the person. That's one of the reasons why they were not
able to win the award. Then I want to thank Chinnipa Das, who is the founder
(00:45):
of Change the Narratives. I want to thank him for applying.
Then there were three winners this time. So Dr.
Simi Mishra from Connecting Dreams.
Shruti Iyer from FMCH India. That's co-founder and CEO at Foundation for Mother and Child India.
I want to thank them and of course, Dr. O.P. Balla Foundation.
So I want to thank everybody for applying and to the winners.
(01:08):
So this time there were three winners. This is the first time I held the Social Impact Award.
So, you know, this was a learning experience for me.
There was an application form. There's also a small prize money,
which is about $100 shared among all the winners.
And then there was video recording where people had to come and,
(01:30):
you know, I interviewed them for about half an hour.
Very delighted first to feature Dr.
Vishali Mathur. the other two winners dr semi
and shruti were not available or not free the vishali
matra i want to really thank you i i deeply uh
you know i'm very delighted that you filled in the application you're doing
fantastic work uh within you know a lot of spheres it's not only in healthcare
(01:53):
but in education space you know for old age so you have done quite a few uh
work i just wanted you to first you know you could speak about how you came to know about the,
about the Middle Road Sushant Impact Awards and then you could you know speak
about your work to a global audience.
Thank you so much, Nishant. So, we are thankful that you found our work good
(02:21):
enough to be selected as a winner.
And Dr. Opebhalla Foundation was established in 2014 in the memory of our founder, visionary Dr.
Opebhalla ji, who was a philanthropist, of course, and he established Manavrashna as an education group.
So in his memory this foundation was established
(02:42):
and foundation has been working on various objectives
which are basically education gender equality health
care geriatric care environment and we
have multiple initiatives which we are working on so
to begin with like we have an initiative with
wherein we organize health camps for the community
free health camps and these health camps generally
(03:04):
have a general physician going in
along with dental checkups eye checkups mental
wellness nutrition physiotherapy all these
sort of things which are generally ignored by the people people go in for regular
health checkups but they never talk about their mental wellness they never talk
about their food they never talk about nutrition so that's what the objective
(03:28):
of our health camp says that we are touch those aspects which are.
Generally which people are generally unaware of then
we have mega blood donation camps which happens
once in a year and we have till date already donated
around 12 000 units and then
we have a program called ek murthi daan this
(03:49):
program our founder used to believe that
in fact he wanted that no one on this
planet should sleep hungry everybody should be fed
so this program is basically wherein
we donate dry grains to the
needy and till date we have already donated 1 lakh 17 thousands of dry grains
(04:12):
to various NGOs and poor people during in fact during COVID times we had donated
huge quantities to the migrant laborers who had nowhere to go in for Then there is a program.
Called caution we are working
on the skill development of the underprivileged children because
(04:32):
it has been found that
most of the students drop in out of drop
in drop out of their college after schools they
don't go to college actually and at that stage
when they are when they are only grade 12 pass and
they are you know they don't
take up further education they are not even job ready
(04:54):
they do not get proper job and then they
end up working as labor so we are providing
them basic computer training so that at least even if
if by any chance they drop out of school of their
college they can at least work as a data entry operator so
we are training them on basic computer skills and you won't believe that when
(05:14):
the students come to us they don't even know how to hold a mouse and how to
switch on a CPU and after after the course they are pretty proficient in their
in Microsoft Office at least.
Then there is a program called Mark Darshan again
for government school students wherein we have
(05:34):
been training we have been giving career guidance to
the students so it's not that we just go and talk
about career and opportunities we take a
proper psychometric test for them where the
test is for around two hours we go in for a
proper test for grade 9 to 12 students and
after that as per their results we give them a one-on-one counseling
(05:55):
on what programs or what courses they can pursue once they are you know the
first thing is when they are in grade 9 or 10 it is difficult for them to decide
which subject to choose so we give them We provide them help for choosing their subjects.
And in the grade 11 and 12, after they have already chosen their subjects,
(06:16):
we help them with what all options do they have as per their subject choice
and as per their likings.
And what courses and which colleges can they opt in for.
So that's a program called Mark Darshan, which we are working on.
In the environment this is all for education then for
environment i just had a question sorry to
(06:36):
interrupt you in education space i think you spent a
sizable amount of money on the education of government
school students in faridabad in
india is is that right that's right that's right because
we had been running a program called teacher on
call wherein we were spending around
more than one lakh rupees a month for the
(06:57):
wherein and the program was that
we were providing remedial classes to students
from grade six to ten over a
phone call so they don't need to go anywhere they don't have to
you know spend any money they just have to use a basic phone is what they need
and they can call on a toll-free number and there were more than 300 teachers
(07:18):
available subject-wise who were there to help them and the teachers you know
the students used to call up like this that That on this page, there is a question.
There is a question on this page. There is a paragraph which I cannot understand.
And the teachers used to guide them for like quite a long duration.
And it was all free, of course, for all the students who wanted to register under it.
Okay. And did it give results? I mean, because... Yes, yes. We did analyze the
(07:44):
results pre and post the program.
So before the program, those, they were, you know, tremendous.
They were good results. There were quite a lot of improvement in their results.
Their academics improved, their interest improved.
And we also found that though we were not giving them English speaking classes or something,
but we found that after talking to our teachers, being in regular touch with
(08:09):
them, they were pretty confident and they were quite fluent in their English also.
So that was also one of the programs. Then for environment, we have been planting
trees every year, like around 5,000 trees every year are planted in the community.
Other than that, we are working on plastic waste segregation and we are promoting,
(08:30):
you know, motivating people to not throw away plastic in their dustbins.
So for waste paper recycling, right? We have already recycled.
So for waste paper, there is a project called RADHI.
Wherein we have already recycled around 50,000 kgs of paper.
And those papers are then converted to notebooks, which are finally donated
(08:52):
to government school students.
And the program for the plastic segregation, which I'm talking about,
is called Green Grehe, wherein we are recycling plastic to benches,
which these benches are then donated to community areas.
Okay, that's very nice. We have already donated around five benches till date.
Okay. the sixth one is on way then there
(09:15):
is a project for women empowerment we have a project called give
her wings to fly this program is mainly meant
to you know counsel and give awareness on menstrual hygiene because it has been
observed that people especially girls especially in the rural areas all from
the underprivileged section have a lot of taboos regarding menstruation so So
(09:38):
some things like you should not do this,
you should not do that, you can't do this, you can't do that, you can't talk about it.
They don't even like or they are creating awareness on menstruation and menstrual
hygiene, as well as personality development and grooming.
And in this program, we also donate sanitary napkins.
(09:59):
So till date, we have donated around 50,000 sanitary napkins in the community.
So, this is one of the projects on women empowerment.
Then I did mention about Ek Muthi Daan. And we have also started a project wherein
we are promoting organ donation, which was also called by our Prime Minister.
(10:24):
He also requested people to register for organ donation. So, we are working on that.
Ananya Mukta. we call it anemia mukta manavrasana because a lot of students
we have found that are anemic and are not even aware about the side effects
of being anemic and how to tackle it so we,
(10:46):
have nutritionist on panel and a proper follow up is done with the students
and they are being made aware about the side effects of anemia and then how
to tackle it with their diet dietary modifications and all these things
so that is also one of the projects yeah this
is i think uh you know in western countries so you're
(11:09):
saying deliberately people don't need just to be slim is
that what among specifically about the side effects of they think that's if
something is i mean if their hemoglobins are low it's okay but they don't realize
what are the side effects and how it is affecting them as a personal person
also i mean it's not just about their health it's about their mental
(11:31):
wellness, their capacity to work,
their energy levels, everything goes down.
And so I just had, what were the, how would you say, what were the sort of milestones
you could talk about, which happened over a period of time?
And were they like resistances where, you know, you had a problem?
How did you overcome that?
(11:51):
The most, see, the milestones are the, you know, the figures which we have achieved till date.
Like we have done one ladle for 17 000
kgs of grains 50 000 sanitary
napkins 35 around 40 000
kgs of paper waste
which have been reached not 1000 kgs
(12:13):
of plastic which is like a huge number i would
say 1200 kgs now because the sixth bench is
on way so six thousand twelve thousand kgs
of plastic which is again a huge amount 25 000
plants all these are of course
our milestones and achievements which have come up
bit by bit and while working
(12:35):
in the community there is always resistance regarding anything
new so when when i talk about even
when i talk about our health camps people don't really
understand the importance of a good diet in
their lifestyle or maybe the mental wellness it is difficult in in fact very
difficult to motivate people to come in and talk to our psychologist about their
(13:00):
problems they find that they they you know there is a big taboo which says that
if you're talking about psychology it means that you are not that you are so you know,
what should i say that you're you're you're mentally imbalanced they which is a major.
Taboo in the society and people just don't want to talk about their psychological
(13:21):
problems in fact even stress or pressure regarding their exams is not considered to be a problem,
convincing students that you know the examination
stress can be tackled and it can be handled is a task it's it's a difficult
thing then community may like talking to girls regarding menstrual hygiene is
(13:45):
is a major problem they don't want to talk about it yeah because it's a taboo like for,
it's a taboo so what we do is we ensure that
when we go and talk to them the team comprises of boys as well because we also
want to give them a message that even the men should know that and the men should
be there to help you out to support you mentally physically so we make we We ensure that our team,
(14:12):
when it goes for a menstrual hygiene talk or workshop like that,
it should also comprise of some boys.
And it is always difficult to make the girls talk about it or be a little open
about it. That is a major problem.
It's not so easy. You just can't go and talk to them out of nowhere.
(14:37):
That's true. And over a period of time, what do you think, how did,
one I wanted to ask is, you know, what were the key struggles you had, how did you overcome it?
And would you like to sort of share an experience which you think,
you know, you find it very motivating or inspiring?
So i will talk about this green
program which which is our plastic donation drive plastic
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segregation drive so we do
offer internships to students so last
year in 2023 school students came up to us for some internship for some 15 days
and these students we were like surprised with they were from they were students
of grade 9 to 12 and they were divided in two groups and And one of the group was working on PCOD,
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which and they were creating awareness amongst the community regarding PCOD
because people generally don't know about it.
And the other group came up with this idea of green grey hair,
wherein they conducted a survey at the first place, wherein they found that
normally the community.
Even the educated community doesn't even know that plastic can be segregated.
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And there are harmful effects of plastic
so they were just not aware of it
and after that they started this
project and collected started you know informing people and the major challenge
was that people were not ready to segregate their waste they just did not want
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to put the waste in two dustbins or three dustbins they wanted everything to
be kept in one and just throw it
away so that came up as a challenge and finally after a lot of motivation and
a lot of talks we i would not say not all but we could at least motivate of
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their waste and give the plastic to us.
You know, you've grown substantially. I mean, there are a lot of projects you're
doing. It's not in one space.
You have quite a few, you know, in sustainability, climate change,
education, various aspects of that. I want to thank Dr.
Vishali Mathur and Dr. O. P. Bala Foundation for being part of the inaugural
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Kusum Social Impact Award from the Middle Road.
You can always check out www.themiddleroad.org.
There was some problem with the recording, so I could not cover a couple of questions Dr.
Vishali Mathur actually spoke about. However, I think I was able to cover most
of the questions from Dr. O. P. Bala Foundation.
Somehow, we could not do the subsequent podcast. I also want to thank all the
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people who applied and other winners, including Dr.
Simi Mishra from Connecting Dreams, Shruti Ayer from FMCH India,
which is she's the co-founder and CEO at Foundation for Mother and Child Health India.
I want to thank all the participants in it. I also want to thank Center for
Theory of Change for sponsoring the first Kusub Shoshan Impact Award. Have a good one.
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