Sanjay
Kumud Moreshwar Bapat, founder, is a driver who takes donors
to the right NGOs in the issues they want to donate to in
about 92 countries.
He worked
in advertising and knows that the minute one sees award, most
of the people click on it to see more.
No, he
is not fooling either. Because he means CSRidentity.com will
give you award.
And the award is not a physical trophy or award disc.
It is satisfaction award.
He is not committing but has dreams of donation of at least
10 million (1 crore) to NGOs, locations, stakeholders in Thane
district of India and two of his global examples which are
not in Thane. One has a hostel for disabled and another one
has a hostel for nomadics.
Infact he plans to make Thane a global example of retail donations.
He has started donating Rs 3650/- per year (Rs 10 per day.
Yes he knows that once in 4 years, there are 366 days in that
year) on
birthdates of his, his mother, father, wife and two sons Rohan
& Aum. He thinks that though his official birthdate is
8.8.62, on 28.8.2013 he got another birth because Bhau and
others postponed his death because he has not served mother
earth enough.
So Rs 3650/- 7 times a year which is Rs 25, 550/- a year and
he knows that though the amount is not big, his thinking of
donating to others on birthdays is important.
His son Aum, went a step ahead and donated his first income
(as intern after doing his MBBS) by giving face masks to people
in Wadia Hospital and to Transgenders in Thane. And he was
so clear of climate change that he said to founder, he will
not come from Nasik to Thane, so founder can give them. Also
Aum wanted no photos when masks were given to Wadia and Transgenders
but organisers said we must send it to Aum, so founder reluctantly
agreed.
He went
a step ahead and decided to donate books on medicine that
he got from his parents to medical students who can not afford
them because they are costly.
And the books will be much more than Rs 10000/- or USD 150/-
Founder
did not know this great way to start serving mother earth
when he got his first income as Rs 1000/- as trainee engineer
in 1984 in Godrej Soaps.
Also he did not know Climate change is so deadly.
One
page
Founder
has decided to have a page for any individual who donates
Rs 10000/- or more
USD 150/- (In dollar terms it will be USD 150/-, Dollar rate
changes but your mindset of giving should not change and giving
should be giving and not photo opportunities).
He was
telling about Aum's gesture of donating his first income to
his classmate Mohan Hukerikar on his birthday on 2nd October
and Mohan said he will give to 3 causes and NGOs can be decided
by founder..
(Founder
must admit that he attended less lectures in college and he
was in sports room and Mohan was his opponent when they played
carrom (When two players play carrom, they are opponents or
competitors and this in no way means they are opponents in
life. Its a game and competition must be seen as motivation).
Mohan
attended lectures and used tp play carrom and table tennis
after lectures and out of 9 pieces (songatya) on carrom board,
he used to take 6 or 7 at one stretch.
Now Mohan
stays in London and said even during lockdown period friends
came at different times and donated to his Ganapati and he
will give this and more for Girl's Education , Junior artists
affected by Covid and Disabled care.
And he donated the amount.
Of course
founder has decided two things.
1) Dont mention the exact amount of donation because people
should not feel that someone donated more than them.
The thought of donation and its implementation of giving is
more important.
But he make four types here.
Individuals who pay Rs 10000/- to Rs 49999.99/- (USD 150 to
USD 724)
Individuals who pay Rs 50000/- or more.(USD 725 or more)
Corporates who pay Rs 50 000/- to Rs 99999.99 (USD 750 to
USD 1499)
Corporates who pay Rs 100 000/- or more (USD 1500 or more)
2) Founder knows that someone can just afford to give Rs 100/-
or USD 10. He is more than happy to disburese 100% of it to
Thane because the thought of giving is far more important
than the amount.
Poor can not give more money and with this Covid19 pandemic
everyone is concerned about their security first and invest
money in that. But because he doesnt want toooooooo much space
occupied, he is restricting to Rs 10000/- or USD 150.
CSRidentity.com
knows that most of you are not financial billionaires who
have taken Giving Pledge donating large amount of money they
earned or inheritaged to communities, climate, nation ....
We initially thought that YOUR LIFE WILL BE A WASTE, if you
do not give 2.3% of your self earned money.
But after calculations and challenges human face plus the
very human nature, we know it will be tooooooo much money
for many.
But if you cant donate 0.00775% of your wealth to community,
then according to us, your life is a waste
(0.00775% is not just any figure. It is the percentage of
usable fresh water on earth. Now dont ask us what is 0.00775%
)
All of
us live with people around us, in a particular country which
is an integral part of this world.
If we cant do something for them, then the purpose of life
has a big hole.
If there is a BIG hole in one's heart, then one does medical
surgery.
We are saying, you do non medical surgery of your thought
process if you cant give 0.00775% of your time on earth.
Now lets calculate for your information.
1 year = 365 days and each day is 24 hours, so 1 year has
8760 hours
If we say 60 years of life, then 60 x 8760 which is 525600
hours.
Now 0.00775% of 525600 hours is 4073.4 hours
If 1 year is 365 x 24 = 8760 hours, then when we say 4073.4
hours, it is 4073.4 divided by 8760 which is 46.5 % of 1 year.
Now that is tooooooooooo much for a person who does only volunteering
because she / he need to take rest, eat ....
Now lets
do calculation with 0.465 % not 46.5%.
This means 0.00465% of 1 year which is 40.734 hours
Again 40.734 hours is toooooooo much for most of the working
community.
Now lets
calculate again.
If a person does volunteering between 40 to 60 years which
means 20 years,
4073.4 hours of total volunteering time in 20 years means
it is 203.67 hous per year
This is not even 1 hour per day for 20 years. (1 years is
365 days so 1 hour per day is 365 hours which is more than
203.67 hours)
Again thats tooooooooooo much.
So lets
do reverse calculation.
If one does 2 hours of volunteering per year for 20 years,
it is 40 hours.
Now 40 hours divided by 525600 hours (60 years x 365 days
= 21900 days x 24 hours = 525600 hours) is 0.007610350
Now 0 .00775 which is percentage of usable fresh water on
earth and 0.007610350 are close to each other.