Birthday
is a day which reminds us that all humans are humans first and
then they are an integral part of a country, gender.
Humans have
decided caste, religion, body colour and know economic poverty
but dont want to think of mental poverty and if they know how
to measure it, then many economic billionaires or millionaires
will be in that mental poverty zone and some economic poor can
easily more to mentally super rich zone.
You are
different, so celebrate your birthday differently.
Founder
Sanjay Kumud Moreshwar Bapat has started it in 2018
If
2 billion of 7.8 billion people donate Rs 3650/ - or USD 75
on every birthday, then world would get 75 USD x 2 billion which
is 150 billion US Dollars ever year. Governments would feel
that much less burden on them to serve their citizens
So on 6th
October 2018, when founder was with
Rohan, his speical child who is teaching him the value of integration,
to get a Japanese Cake for his second son Aum who likes it very
much, he thought that instead of celebrating it on a given day
which may not suit people across the world, he should start
something which many people in this world anyway celebrate.
And this is their birthday..
So he started
thinking of the name.
He thought of Give Birthday Gift.
And he thought it may be simple but it was clear and good. And
everyone can understand it.
Yes, Give Birthday Gift may look as an order.
So Please Give Birthday Gift looks better sentence.
But we know that if one says please, people will listen and
many will neglect it.
And we know 1 billion people live Below the Poverty Line and
we know Climate change is happening faster.
We read
about floods, droughts regularly... so
days of request are gone long time back.
Its order but its a gentle reminder order
e.g. when one forgets to pay tax or doesnt pay it knowingly,
the government can order payment.
But if the government official says ... just a gentle reminder
that you were supposed to pay tax and the deadline is over.
May be you have forgotten the date because you seem to be too
busy doing lots of things .. so just a gentle reminder.
If we hear that we know what that official means by saying Gentle
reminder.
And we can say ... oh, sorry, I will take care of paying tax
... thanks for reminding me.
So
finally, our founder confirmed that the name is Give Birthday
Gift.
And
we started implementing the idea from 13th October which is
founder's wife Rohini's birthday.
Actually, 13th October was the day when Video conferencing to
Municipal schools was planned for Hindustan Unilever's Lifebuoy.
And it is good for child health. But Municipal Authorities told
us on 5th October that they have to give that time for Disaster
Management Session on 13th October 2018 with BMC Schools and
we can do our Video conferencing on 27th October.
then we
thought the gift should be such that billions can give - Gift
to Blood Bank..
So we finally decided to give the amount to Late Wamanrao Oka
Raktapedhi, a blood bank which is scientific blood bank.
On 13th October, Rohini thought that alongwith money, she should
donate 1 bottle of blood.
Founder thought this was far deeper than his thought of just
giving money.
When she alongwith Aum went to the Blood Bank, she was tested
for Haemoglobin level and she was told that it was slightly
less than what the blood bank accepts (This is why we say Late
Wamanrao Oka Raktapedhi is scientific)
Founder did not know this. When
founder went to take her out for lunch, she said the donor is
changed.
Founder
thought she meant that from non blood donor category, she has
moved to blood donor category.
Then she
shared the scientific things.
She told the blood bank to take Blood of her son Aum, who was
happy to donate.
So one can
give Rs 3650 or equivalent amount in their currency or less
or more amount and alongwith that if one donates blood, it will
be far far important.
While our
founder was born on 8th August, he has started celebrating 28th
August as his new birthday because he was reborn on that day
(Not medically or legally reborn but he survived an almost fatal
accident on that day), so he observes 8 & 28 August. So
he will give it on two days.
Interestingly
2 coincides with his concept that at least everyone should give
2% time & 2% money to this world or universe.
And 2 numeric
in 28 is just before 8 which is his birthdate, so again 2 is
critical.
But 2 can be a numbers game.
Like founder plays game with number 8.
He says he was born on 8.8.1962
In 19, the difference between 1 and 9 is 8
In 62, take it as 6 + 2 which is 8
He was born at 8.35 which means 8 and 3 + 5 = 8 and
a week has 7 days, so he has passed the number of days of week
by 1 ....
one can do various numerical games but the fact remains that
he requests people to give 2% time and 2% money to charity.
He realised that 2% is tooooooooooooo much.
So
now it is 0.00775% (Click here to know the calculations)
Please note
that this donation can be to any NGO from any country and is
different from advertising banner on any calendar day page.
We say any NGO for any country working on any issue because
we have no control to check the credibility of the NGO you give.
If its is given to Developed Nation Network Trust, we will use
it 100% to the NGO either from Thane or our global example of
two more NGOs, one working for disabled citizens and one for
nomadics and these two are not in Thane district..
If you do this, the world can then be a good place to Live and
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