Hope-Kart

HOPE-KART Large scale community involvement – towards inclusiveness

The need of the day is to build scientific research-based CSR, factoring ‘felt needs’ and end to end consulting

A robust and thriving developmental sector is primary if a country aims at equitable, inclusive, and sustainable growth. We need to be socially sensitive. One person equals one vote, equals one value. But the socio-economic realities are different and they still have a long way to go to match this vision. The growing disparity, inequality, and societal divide need to be reversed. That calls for large scale purposeful community involvement to integrate the innate wisdom and latent potential

About HOPE-KART

Hope-Kart is a large scale community-based, community-paced and business ecosystem oriented platform. It involves the community, and integrates its diversity and wisdom to make ‘Local go Global’. This is our small step to inch towards Atma Nirbhar Bharat.

PARIVARTAN KARO NA

Under this vertical, the GDP Foundation executed a contest-cum-internship initiative – Parivartan Karo Na. This initiative was launched on 14th April during the lockdown. In just 3 weeks, we received more than 125 registrations from people from different walks of life. Students, teachers, NGOs, professionals, principals, architects, doctors, and industries from different parts of the country, they all participated whole-heartedly.

The Trust then mentored 25 Hi-potential entries and also gave cash awards/seed funding/prototype funding to 14 of these entries.

Corporate Social Responsibility - A Change For The Better

Even today, various villages in India give us a sneak-peek into the collective-effort way of life. During the summer season, the ladies work in conjunction with one another and prepare a variety of items such as papad, pickles, etc. Farming is an activity, which is still carried out in groups. Festivals have always been a sign of our togetherness and unity.

However, the metro cities with lights so bright that they blind the stars, seem to have lost the beauty of unity. Everybody is working towards a personal goal or ambition. Today, each one of us is in a rat race, ready to trip the other and reach the destination before everyone else.

This reminds me of a famous story that teaches us - One stick can easily be snapped into pieces. However, it is difficult to break a bundle of sticks. If you are divided, you are as strong as a single stick. It is time for us to unite, use each other’s strengths, and help each other to achieve one's goals. The pandemic has shattered us as an individual. But together we can overcome this financial crisis. Thus the GDP Foundation aims to empower people with varied strengths and capabilities to work together and turn the tide.

MR. SANDESH PRABHUKHANOLKAR

Trustee, GDP Foundation