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AARON KAPOOR's Campaign To Give Footwear To Students In Rural Uttar Pradesh.
Gurugram, Haryana, India
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I am AARON KAPOOR, 14 yrs & in Grade 9 at TSRS, Aravali. I want to give footwear to 100 students who walk barefoot to school daily.
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INR 12,300
GOAL INR 22,000
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Started from 18/10/2019
Ended on 10/11/2019
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KIDS FOR KIDS: I and my other students at TSRS, Aravali are raising awareness and funds to give footwear to thousands of children in the remote and backward Chitrakoot district of Uttar Pradesh. This footwear is made out of discarded shoes that would have otherwise gone into landfills. The refurbished shoes will transform into comfortable and trendy footwear for thousands of children who walk barefoot to schools. This footwear is made by the Greensole Foundation. The cost of footwear including refurbishment & actual distribution is only 220 INR a pair. 

Just INR 22000 impacts 100 students.

 

Pic: The quality & design of the footwear is world-class & brings a big smile to a student.

The lack of something as simple as footwear (along with school suppliers and toilets) is one of the principal reasons why children leave school. In the rural areas of UP, the schools are often far from their homes and many children must walk many kilometers to their schools. The walk is across roads, fields, narrow paths and is difficult and unsafe. In summers when temperatures shoot into the 40 and 45C range it can be a nightmare. 

Lack of footwear makes this incredibly difficult and often is a chief reason for them to leave school. Walking barefoot also leads to soil-transmitted diseases and parasites. This leads to sickness and ill health.

HOW ARE WE DOING THIS? 

I am doing this crowdfunding campaign in partnership with the Mumbai based NGO, Greensole Foundation. They refurbish old and discarded shoes with a minimum carbon footprint. These discarded shoes are kept away from landfills and end up transforming the lives of students in rural areas. They also retail, upcycled footwear towards building a self-sustaining social venture.

Since the Greensole Foundation is an NGO any funding made to this campaign is eligible for tax exemption under 80G of IT Act 196.

The money raised will be given directly after the campaign ends to the NGO. They will then use the funds to transform the lives of children from rural villages by providing them with recycled footwear. You will get an update on how many students in which school benefitted from your funding.

ABOUT ME

My name is AARON KAPOOR and I am in Grade 14 at the TSRS, Aravali.

I have undertaken this campaign because I think wearing footwear is something that is a basic need for any school-going child. I cannot imagine walking kilometers to school barefoot every day. These children who are being supported in the remote district of Chitrakoot in UP are doing well at school despite adverse circumstances and conditions. The fact that raising 22000 INR or more can give footwear & transform the lives of 100 children or more is something that I am very excited about.

Please support my campaign and let us together bring confidence and change into the lives of these fellow students from rural areas in the remote and very backward district of Chitrakoot in Uttar Pradesh. In the summer temperatures go up to 46 to 48C sometimes. Without footwear, it's impossible for these students to get to school. This leads to dropouts, low attendance, health issues, etc.

Please fund this campaign and let's together impact the lives of students in schools in UP.

You can also share my campaign link on your social media as that will be a big help.

IMPACT ON STUDENTS

 Watch the video below :

 

OUR PARTNER

Let's connect Souls to Soles:

At Greensole, we give discarded shoes a second life by refurbishing them to comfortable footwear and providing them to the people in need, contributing to an environmental, social and economic good. The efforts have brought a smile to 1,30,000 beneficiaries so far.

Corporate Partners & Media Reach: 

We have partnered with over 55 leading corporates in the last couple of years who have sponsored for over 130,000 pairs of footwear. Some of them are Tata Steel, Adidas, Skechers, India Bulls, Axis Bank, ONGC, HDFC Sales, Allianz,. The corporate organization's partner with Greensole as a part of their CSR activity wherein they collect old shoes from the employees and also sponsor for the refurbishing cost. The cost of refurbishment & distribution is just Rs.199 per pair.

Greensole Origins :

As athletes, the founders of Greensole, Shriyans Bhandari and Ramesh Dhami ran hundreds of kilometers every year. They also ran through at least 3 to 4 pairs of sports shoes every year. The soles were in good condition but the shoe sides tore within months. The duo always wondered if they could find some use for the intact soles of these quality sports shoes. A bit of research led to the idea of refurbishing them into trendy slippers. That brainwave eventually spawned an eco-friendly enterprise that reuses shoe soles and is appropriately named Greensole.

LOCATION MAP

Under this school program, students across rural schools in UP will benefit. Greensole is located in Vashi, Mumbai.

TAX BENEFITS:

Funding for this campaign is eligible for tax breaks as NGO is a registered trust & you can avail of benefits under section 80G of the IT act. Funding from those with foreign passports is not eligible. If you are an Indian staying abroad you can fund this campaign. We also accept foreign credit and debit cards.

FEEDBACK THAT YOU GET

To ensure that there is complete transparency I shall get a report from NGO (this takes between 2 to 4 months usually after the funds are raised & transferred to them) telling me who benefitted from the funding. The details will then be posted on the UPDATES section of my campaign. As soon as I post an update, the platform will send an SMS and EMAIL alert to all the funders - i.e. to you. Click on the link on the email and you can read about who benefitted. That's transparent right.

The below image is an example of the FEEDBACK FORMAT that we will be shared with all my funders.

SCHOOLS WHERE WE PLAN TO DISTRIBUTE FOOTWEAR 

The below list totals to 14107 students across different schools across UP. We can distribute to more students if we raise more funds. This will help bring more smiles and cheers to students in rural schools.


FAQs

Will we get to know the details of who benefitted?

Yes. After the money has been collected it will be transferred by Fueladream to GREENSOLE. It will take from 2 to 4 months after that to get details of fund use. Once I get this information from them I shall upload this on the UPDATES section of this campaign. You will then get an alert & can read details about the beneficiaries. ( WHICH SCHOOL AND HOW MANY STUDENTS)

When do I get the receipts?

It takes up to 2 weeks after the campaign is closed for the monies to be transferred to NGO. The receipts will start getting processed about 4 to 6 weeks AFTER the campaign is closed and will be sent to you directly.

How does crowdfunding work?

Crowdfunding in India is a relatively new concept & is growing very quickly.

It’s a concept that allows a large number of funders (like you) to fund an Idea or a cause or event by giving small amounts of money online. Fueladream.com is a crowdfunding platform in India that allows for such pooling of funds. You can fund innovations & ideas on FuelADream and be the first to get these products or make them come true. You can also do a good turn by funding charities and causes through crowdfunding. When you fund a charity it’s more like a donation & you get small innovative rewards like a shout-out on an FB page or a thank you email from the beneficiaries

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