still so confused about love but hasn’t
it all becomes so easy with these modern
dating apps and latter model portals you
can find love anywhere Facebook Twitter
he was koopa pool so well I it just
looked so flawless until I let emerge
eat a much of the study he is finishing
his PhD from JNU in Delhi
if you saw this profile behind me you’d
know he’s very popular and would get a
lot of matches but what if emergen
decided to tell you a little more about
himself what if he told you he’s on a
wheelchair leave alone enough responses
he wouldn’t even get any swipe right it
fitzroy UK / la agency for people with
disability ask them what they can’t live
without in a campaign and here are some
results coffee fun being respected
falling in love are we all the same
don’t we all need the same things but
according to me 100 million people with
disabilities live in India 67 million
are still looking for a life partner
intrigued by the lack of platform for
people with disabilities I went locking
on every matrimonial portal in India
asking them why are they not doing
something about this the obvious answer
was we have million-plus profiles
together – we’d all have any time for
something this special it was a leap of
faith in 2014 I started wanted umbrella
it’s a matchmaking agency for people
with disabilities in my few of you know
early months I was latching 10 to 15
profiles on the basis of age location
medical condition and so forth the
journey was you know so excited for
a startup but somebody twice my age
called me and said you’re my daughter’s
age how are you going to find love for
me or what do you know about finding
love I just realized how my users had
low power in that agency model
I was quite disheartened but it was too
soon to give up the next obvious choice
was to start a tech platform because we
were even getting called from Malaysia
and you know new york asking if we could
do something very similar for them let
me confess I’m a majors in finance I did
not know how app works it’s larger
something like this still exists but
also I could easily go wrong with my
career they’re sitting at Starbucks
Shankar who’s my co-founder and me we
started in Clough in Clovis world’s
first matchmaking app focusing on people
with disabilities and health disorders
thank you inclusive love being an
abstract subject we started taking some
lessons from wanted umbrella
made sure in flow is you on the basis of
level of Independence cure instruments
you use medical condition and lifestyle
choices so let me give you an example if
you know sign language
we will latch you with people who are
hearing-impaired or if you understand
Braille or you are visually impaired we
will never show you profiles of people
who are hearing impaired because they
use sign language and you cannot see it
and so on and so forth in club is also
having optimal readability of each
profile page to ensure people with
visual impairment retina disorder and
color blindness the Lord have to take
any help from the friends or family
members to look for a life partner the
journey the journey was getting
overwhelmingly positive well I got a
phone call this is the first latch lol
Imran ah I know so miss wheelchair
dollar up and she’s a gold medalist in
rifle shooting she was looking to settle
down since 8 years law she was very
hesitant on getting to our app but
within 10 days of our launch she found
him run three months later they tied the
both of them are wheelchair users it is
a lotion that people with disability
should only marry people with disability
let me tell you we are all dealing with
a blind spot here
50% of in club users are without
disability there are people who have
surgeries who have temporary trials
clients or people who believe in
inclusion with some further research we
found out that in India people with
disability have very restricted social
lives due to ill accessible transport
public places and so on makes it much
tougher for them to find love and so we
realized people who were talking on our
app were not coming out and leading in
person so we decided to do something
about it and we started social spaces
which is our offline meetup where we
give an equal platform for people with
or without disability to come together
and interact these cafes and restaurants
have accessible washrooms ramps at entry
and exit sign language interpreters in
fact we even interpret music and sign
language so they included let me give
you a glimpse of social spaces
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Aker unusual recipe a disabled person
you’ll never find a foot foot like
button for at least a half a cup
including India just do it like my
little electronic
somebody very recently told me the
understanding of disability and
disability of understanding go hand in
hand so to solve the problem of
awareness and social restriction we
started social spaces plus any of you
could host your social space in your
city or locality with a simple
do-it-yourself guide so you can stop one
person like Manish from entering a bar
to have a drink but how do you stop a
group of twenty people wanting to have a
drink together right and it’s time for
many more like Manish l emergy to find a
life partner but will not go to stop
here we plan to go global with in
slavery soon we plan to create similar
platforms for people who are elderly
divorced widowed widowed E and so on we
plan to remove them from the isolation
by creating enough platforms for them to
meet and understand each other and maybe
meet the one in that process in club is
for people who want to find love
differently because lo one L IFE t’ no
one deserves to be alone thank you you