Birthday
: Its the day when you were born. Assume its a Gift to the Earth
given by your Parents.
On your Birthday, gift Rs 3650/- to an NGO or community.
Rs 3650/- came from the fact that a year has 365 days, so it can
be Rs 365/- or Rs 3650/- or Rs 36500/-
Of course the financial currency is different in countries and
one can give equivalent amount .....
Whether you are a Christian and celebrate Christmas, Hindu and
celebrate Diwali, Muslim and celebrate Id or of any religion (including
the religion of Truth which our founder believes is his religion),
it is likely that you, your family, friends, colleagues celebrate
your Birthday. Its an easy day or date you remember.
Worldover,
there are people who observe charity days (in India, new festival,
Daan Utsav was started by Venkat) but that day or week may not
be suitable for someone may be because it clashes with exam period
of students or holiday period of schools where one goes out of
location for a trip or whatever ....
Our founder
told Venkat that he should start Daan Utsav in all countries and
we will promote the concept.
But his priority is India.
So on 6th
October 2018, when our founder was with Rohan 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
(January 1 is celebrated worldover as the first day of the year
but some religions have their own first day of the year. But birthday
is just one day and you may celebrate it as per English calendar
or your religion calendar).
So he started
thinking of the name.
He thought that Birthday Gift should be the first two words.
Say Birthday Gift Give or Birthday Gift donate ..
But the idea came from the thought of Venkat's idea of DaanUtsav.
And Venkat started Give India much before Daan Utsav.
So our founder who worked in Advertising & PR started thinking.
His first thought was sort of a message : Birthday Give Gift
But his advertising mind thought this was sort of an order to
give gift on birthday. It was not good advertising.
He knew something very simple which even a child understood, or
someone elderly who never had the opportunity to learn in school
should understand.
Then 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 think that if one says please, people will listen to it
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.
Now the sentence starts with Give, which is what Venkat started.
So its important that we recognise the origin first.
So
finally, our founder confirmed that the name is Give Birthday
Gift.
And
we started 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.
On 13th October,
we thought we can visit Tribal school in Kokanipada or Bhinar,
but it was too early (6th & 13th is small gap)
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 it was a joke because he 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 reborn but he survived an almost fatal accident on that
day), so he can observe 8 & 28 August. So he will give it
on two days. Interestingly 2 coincides with his concept that at
least eveeryone 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.
If you do
this, the world can then be a good place to Live and Leave.
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