August
28
Why
we changed our vision & programmes from August
28, 2013 ?
On 28th August 2013, one of our cofounders
had an almost fatal accident at 5.30 AM when he had gone for
a morning walk with his father. His father who was 82 years
then (he wants each one
to donate blood and had keen interest in helping nomadics
/ tribals), had the courage to get him home and then to
the hospital with his younger son (he was in 11th standard then).
His wife had to stay at home because his older son has sensory
integration challenge and cant live alone at home. Within an
hour, when relatives came home to take care of older son, his
wife rushed to the hospital. (We later realised that even world
champions go through similar cases and you can see Jordan
Spieth is world champion in Golf. But sports is not the only
thing in his life. Ellie, Jordan’s younger sister with special
needs, is his constant source of support and grounding.
We have never met individual citizen Jordan Spieth but please
imagine his goodness and the goodness of so many individuals
who go through such situations in life)
Within
3 months of the almost fatal accident, our cofounder started
working from home and also started going to office by an auto
(the office is 3 minutes away by walk and it takes 1.5 minutes
to go there by an auto. Our cofounder couldnt walk to go to
the office because of the traffic). Now he works on all days
treating the work as a hobby with responsibility.
He also
realised the importance of all stakeholders irrespective of
their age, caste, religion, political significance or profession
because good people came to support him financially as well
as keenly invested time in the hospital (especially the school
mates of the cofounder who stayed overnight with him like Abhay
who is more than just a school mate because he helped adoption
of a person way back in 2003)
Our cofounder
& his family can never imagine the help he received from
his college mates Sunil
Joshi & Anil
Bhot who used to come to the hospital & at home to teach
basics.
Key organisations
which are Indian organisations as well as Multi National Corporates,
supported him immediately. It was nice to have faith in our
organisation because in October 2013, 800 to 1000 employees
from an MNC including the CEO were in Municipal schools in Mumbai,
an employee volunteering programme we do with them since 2008.
One person (highly difficult for anyone in this world to replicate)
who supported the family considerably was Venkat Krishnan (IIM
- A post graduate and founder of Give
India; he spends most of his time in helping India develop
faster)
Our cofounder
realised the key fact that doctors (he is thankful to Jupiter
Hospital ) treat a patient like a patient irrespective
of the mother tongue, caste, religion, nationality. While legally
our cofounder was borne in India, had a religion & caste,
he now believes that he is a universal citizen, with truth as
the religion and he does not believe in any caste.
Our cofounder
realised the fact that millions of individuals & institutions
are doing good for the community and instead of investing time
in working for the benefit of the small size of community, we
now need to integrate the goodness of millions of individuals
& institutions which work on all social, developmental,
nation building, sustainability issues for their communities,
countries, continents, world and this universe.
Our cofounder
also realised that as humans we take care of humans & nature.
But it is key to take care of
living things (like tigers who are part of wild life.
Yes, some humans treat them with goodness but most of humans
are scared to go close to tigers) and
non living things (like the vehicles we use to go to
our offices...these buses, trains, automobiles, some times air
planes.. all are non living things but how useful they are to
people).
While communities,
countries, continents are key, we also realised the importance
of oceans (seeing how our solid waste which is thrown in the
oceans damages countries). See Midway
lands which was formed roughly 28 million years ago. Of
the 1.5 million Laysan Albatrosses that inhabit Midway, nearly
all are found to have plastic in their digestive system. Approximately
one-third of the chicks die. The reason for these deaths is
attributed to the albatrosses confusing brightly colored plastic
with marine animals (such as squid and fish) for food.
Our vision now is universal development by 2050. Of course this
is with or without us.
We were
working on development issues in India. We always knew that
corporates as a stakeholder are one of the key source of sharing
time & money and all the corporates put together have millions
of employees who can share their time, skills, core competency
in management for the communities and those who work with the
communities..
We were doing research on CSR since 2000. That time, for most
of the corporates, CSR was seen as philanthropy. We started
global CSR (India and other countries across the world) research
in 2010 and our research indicated that for many corporates,
CSR has gone far beyond philanthropy. First of all, the corporates
must be good in terms of its ethics, governance, diversity (sustainability
tree roots), then they must ensure that every business process
(like materials management, purchase, finance, HR ...) must
have an angle of CSR within. Similarly issues like regulations,
compliances ... are key.
We then
realised that it is not just corporates but governments, NGOs,
funding agencies, media, celebrities, consultants, researchers,
ad agencies, PR agencies and all institutional stakeholders
must follow these practices.
We know
that globally CSR is known as Corporate Social Responsibility.
Keeping CSR word same, we changed the long form of CSR to Conscience,
sustainability & reputation.
Now, while
one of our cofounder works to make a living because after the
almost fatal accident, we realised that money is critical for
human existance, our cofounder who had a fatal accident, works
for promotion of all stakeholders across the world doing good.
And instead of just one country and other countries in this
world, we have started promoting the good work being done by
great citizens for the oceans and this universe.
Events
475 – The
Roman general Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos
to flee his capital city, Ravenna.
489 – Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths defeats Odoacer at the
Battle of Isonzo, forcing his way into Italy.
663 – Silla–Tang armies crush the Baekje restoration attempt
and force Yamato Japan to withdraw from Korea in the Battle
of Baekgang.
1189 – Third Crusade: the Crusaders begin the Siege of Acre
under Guy of Lusignan
1521 – The Ottoman Turks occupy Belgrade.
1542 – Turkish-Portuguese War (1538-1557) – Battle of Wofla:
the Portuguese are scattered, their leader Christovão da Gama
is captured and later executed.
1565 – Pedro Menéndez de Avilés sights land near St. Augustine,
Florida and founds the oldest continuously occupied European-established
city in the continental United States.
1609 – Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay.
1619 – Ferdinand II is elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
1640 – Second Bishop's War: King Charles I's English army loses
to a Scottish Covenanter force at the Battle of Newburn.
1789 – William Herschel discovers a new moon of Saturn.
1810 – Battle of Grand Port – the French accept the surrender
of a British Navy fleet.
1830 – The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's new Tom Thumb steam
locomotive races a horse-drawn car, presaging steam's role in
US railroading.
1833 – The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 receives Royal Assent,
abolishing slavery through most the British Empire.
1845 – The first issue of Scientific American magazine is published.
1849 – After a month-long siege, Venice, which had declared
itself independent as the Republic of San Marco, surrenders
to Austria.
1859 – A geomagnetic storm causes the Aurora Borealis to shine
so brightly that it is seen clearly over parts of USA, Europe,
and even as far away as Japan.
1862 – American Civil War: Second Battle of Bull Run, also known
as the Battle of Second Manassas.
1867 – The United States takes possession of the, at this point
unoccupied, Midway Atoll.
1879 – Cetshwayo, last king of the Zulus, is captured by the
British.
1898 – Caleb Bradham invents the carbonated soft drink that
will later be called "Pepsi-Cola".
1901 – Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. The
first American private school in the country.
1909 – A group of mid-level Greek Army officers launches the
Goudi coup, seeking wide-ranging reforms.
1913 – Queen Wilhelmina opens the Peace Palace in The Hague.
1914 – World War I: the Royal Navy defeats the German fleet
in the Battle of Heligoland Bight.
1914 – World War I: German troops conquer Namur.
1916 – World War I: Germany declares war on Romania.
1916 – World War I: Italy declares war on Germany.
1917 – Ten Suffragettes are arrested while picketing the White
House.
1924 – The Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against
the Soviet Union.
1931 – France and Soviet Union sign a treaty of non-aggression.
1937 – Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
1943 – World War II: in Denmark, a general strike against the
Nazi occupation is started.
1944 – World War II: Marseille and Toulon are liberated.
1953 – Nippon Television broadcasts Japan's first television
show, including its first TV advertisement.
1955 – Black teenager Emmett Till is murdered in Mississippi,
galvanizing the nascent American Civil Rights Movement.
1957 – U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent
the Senate from voting on Civil Rights Act of 1957; he stopped
speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster
ever conducted by a single Senator.
1963 – March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: Martin Luther
King, Jr. gives his I Have a Dream speech
1963 – Emily Hoffert and Janice Wylie are murdered in their
Manhattan flat, prompting the events that would lead to the
passing of the Miranda Rights.
1964 – The Philadelphia race riot begins.
1968 – Riots in Chicago, Illinois, during the Democratic National
Convention.
1979 – An IRA bomb explodes on the Grand Place in Brussels.
1988 – Ramstein airshow disaster: three aircraft of the Frecce
Tricolori demonstration team collide and the wreckage falls
into the crowd. 75 are killed and 346 seriously injured.
1990 – Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province.
1990 – The Plainfield Tornado: an F5 tornado hits in Plainfield,
Illinois, and Joliet, Illinois, killing 28 people.
1991 – Ukraine declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
1991 – Collapse of the Soviet Union – Mikhail Gorbachev resigns
as General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party.
1992 – The show Australia's Naughtiest Home Videos gets pulled
off the air 30 minutes in and is replaced with a Cheers rerun
1996 – Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales
divorce.
1998 – Pakistan's National Assembly passes a constitutional
amendment to make the "Qur'an and Sunnah" the "supreme
law" but the bill is defeated in the Senate.
2003 – An electricity blackout cuts off power to around 500,000
people living in south east England and brings 60% of London's
underground rail network to a halt.
Holidays
and observances
Assumption
of Mary (Eastern Orthodox Church, a public holiday in the Republic
of Macedonia, Serbia, and Georgia)
Christian Feast Day:
Augustine of Hippo
Saint Hermes
August 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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