name is Asha sweetheart and today I’m
here to share with you my story social
bandaged first of all I would like to
thank an amazing supporter who supports
me through Instagram she her inbuilt
Ahmad I don’t know she somewhere here
and I would like to thank TEDx
for giving me the chance to share my
story with you guys and inspired me
I hate donating I hate charity and
because whenever I commit to support the
cause I go broke and whenever I go
support or proceed whenever I go support
or precede any of the donation desks
that we see around and the city I can’t
feel happy because the guy behind the
desk is not friendly and at a noise I
have to do something about it I realized
that those donation desks around the
city are designed to communicate with
the elder generation with the generation
who have the power to pay on spot they
are not designed to be female friendly
they are not designed to be children
friendly and I have to do something
however I am very passionate about
giving and word change and I want to do
it my own way
I noticed that donating to a cleaner
with a thank you and a smile in return
makes me happier than donating to a
donation desk and end up feeling weird
about it
so I want to do more of what I feel I
want to share more of of what I felt and
the joy when I donated and I want to
share it with my generation with my
community by the age of nine my mom
passed away cause of cancer 17 years
back
we didn’t have a strong medical
background to to diagnose cancer at its
early stages and growing up with her
loss have inspired me and made me
passionate to raise awareness to be
there and to see if things before it’s
too late
and here where I started social bandaged
I want to make I want to shit like I
want the people to have fun and giving I
want to make full awareness I want to
have an impact on world change and sorry
okay and here what I decide to start the
to start the social bandage for my
community
everybody starts a business to do you
know to make money but I started a
business to solve a problem I did not
start a business to serve to generate
her money for myself I started the
business social bandaged and I cami I
dedicate social bandage to solve any
community problem in the way basically
what a social bandaged social bandage is
a social business solves community
problem in a business way by placing a
product and between rather than
collecting direct donation and operate
as a normal charity so we are more like
okay it’s a new challenge to to
introduce such a business in the in the
in the society it’s a new challenge to
make people believe what a social
bandage I needed to be a fighter I
needed to be strong and passionate and
show them what social bond that you can
do starting up a business from scratch
is not easy
convincing people that I am too little
but I can make a huge huge difference
it’s not easy and standing up for a
cause
whether it was cancer or that was autism
whether it was diabetes that’s not easy
I’m doing three and one at the same time
is not easy so basically what happened
here is I made social bandage in two to
two divisions
I made social bandage as an operation
team that runs the company normally and
I made a team I named them a positive
team their job is to be more like to
lift me up to give me that positive and
engine and to be there for me and talk
social bandage with me that no matter
how much I go weak they’re there for me
to lift me up and this is how social
bandage works now everybody start needs
a capital to start its own business
right whereas for social violet I did
not know how much I needed and I didn’t
want to ask my dad for money and I did
was I didn’t want to ask anybody for you
know to support charity because they
will end up looking at me as a charity
myself and I didn’t want that to happen
so I started an easy cause a course
where I can even if I feel social bonded
I can I’ll be able to deliver its
commitment and I decided to give with
years to the poor so basically what
happens is I decided now I highlighted
the cause I wanna give wheelchairs to
the poor and now how can I engage youth
in it so the easiest way to spread
awareness among youth with service
through fashion so I put my t-shirt my
awareness in a wheelchair and I was able
to spread its awareness to the youth I
presented the idea in front of shammed
he was my number one support
he gave me his back he gave me his word
and he told me I am here with you well
okay I’ll give me his support and by by
giving by doing by by signing the
t-shirts it gave me a big push and
achievement that I will be able to
succeed after that I didn’t have a
website the the the t-shirt was popular
at went through social media where we
were we sailed we are we solved like
throw okay through Twitter selling the
t-shirt I made twenty thousand and two
weeks so basically it’s a huge
motivation and after that the t-shirt
the campaign the give a wheelchair have
became stronger and it grew everybody
realized the campaign everybody wanted
to buy the t-shirt to support the same
awareness and what’s amazing that I
after two weeks from with the signage of
Japan people started sending me picture
than buying the t-shirts from all over
the world and part and joining my
movement I have an immorality here I
have a person from Italy and have
another person from Geneva when I was oh
my god how did this t-shirt made a huge
fuss and after that after I achieved my
goal I was able to deliver wheelchairs I
started my first social bided station
and India and I was able to deliver
reaches through the t-shirt through the
t-shirt now when you buy social bandage
t-shirts because I didn’t have money for
the capital I made the pricing of the
t-shirt to help me – Oh to make another
t-shirt so basically when you buy for
you and you pay for the t-shirt you pay
for the cost you pay to support me to
make another cause and you pay for the
I have another cause it’s for Kenya for
Africa I wanted yes I am proud being a
Marathi but I will be prouder to
celebrate I am in Marathi by group by
giving and I wanted to do a cause for
Kenya I want to do something for Carrie
and I put my awareness my t-shirt
awareness and a t-shirt and I was able
to sell and spread
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what you see here is a story of a little
FST shirt that spreaded awareness and we
collected funds to sponsor a village in
Kenya I was able to make a maternity
hospital I was able to make for schools
and not only that I don’t want just to
make a project and leave I was able to
make to give jobs to you while I’m doing
the project we make we made we made the
little tailor on the school where they
can sell their uniforms and bring funds
to the school because Ana 50 years in
front I want the school to grow and make
it more powerful same thing goes to the
hospitals that we that we deal I’d and
off she keeps on making me sign okay at
the end of the at the end of my journey
I’m here to share with you my challenges
I am seven months old with such
achievement all you have to do whoever
have his own like but everybody is an
entrepreneur all you need is to focus
and once you focus you will be you will
be you will be ready to achieve without
knowing I just wanted to make donating
one I just wanted to make a cool
awareness and I was able to achieve it
thank you very much [Applause]