One Idea / One Week / One Billion lives to change

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pOn 15th of August, 2009, I promoted India’s Largest Design for Giving (a href=”http://www.designforgivingcontest.com”www.designforgivingcontest.com/a) contest for school children. Through a simple toolkit that was translated into 8 languages, we reached over 30,000 schools and around 100,000 children (rural, urban, private and public). The competition focused on 10 to 13 year olds with the sole purpose of changing the perception of children being ‘helpless’ to seeing children as ‘drivers of change’. /p

pStories of change poured in from all over India-from places as far off as Nagaland, from remote villages in the Rajasthan heartland, and from the mountains of Sikkim. The contest had ignited something profound. From converting the waste dump outside their school into a garden, to stopping child marriages, to reaching out to the invisible members of our society- the elderly, mentally challenged, and disadvantaged, school children took action to change their world for the better. /p

pThe contest asked students to do three very simple things:Feel, Imagine, and Do. What the contest made visible was that this framework inspired children across India to say “I Can!”/pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/events/one_idea_one_week_one_billion_lives_to_change__16819.asp”(more…)/a
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