Enactus Newsletter 2021-22

STUDENT ENTERPRISE

fifth edition

Annual
Newsletter

Enactus Sri Aurobindo College (EVENING) Enactus
Sri Aurobindo College (EVENING)

HIGHLIGHTS OF 2021-22

Field visit

World Nature Conservation Day Daan Utsav

Visit to Kalasthali Webinar on E - Waste Management

Index

CONTENTS PAGE NO.

From the desk of the Principal 1.
From the desk of the Faculty Advisor 2.
From the desk of the Young Editors 3.
From the desk of Core Team 4-5

Our projects 6-7.
8.
1. Project Annapurna and its revival. 9.
2. Project katran
3. PROJECT ishta 10-11.
12.
Our events: 13.

E- waste management webinar 14-15.
Daan utsav 16
Sarvodya
Climate change and Podcast 17.
Youth leadership summit 18.
19.
Stories : 20.
21.
Dejunk - Ashwajeet Singh 22.
Sundooq- Virkein Dhar
Urvashi Sahni - founder and ceo of SHEF 23-26.
Anshu gupta - founder of goonj 27.
Search Years - Art for life - Ashutosh Shelat
Being Chef - Shubham Maheswari 28-29
30-31.
Articles :


1. Shark Tank India 32-33.
2. Social Entrepreneurship : The new Face Of business
3. Social Entrepreneurship in Education
4. Social entrepreneurship elevating healthcare infrastructure especially in
times of Pandemic
5. Synopsis of 4 must reads for young Entrepreneurial minds.

Patron - Dr. Kusum Lata
Editorial Board - Faculty Advisor - Prof. Sumati Varma Students - Kanishk Sood , Kaushal Jhawar , Rashika Arora

From the desk of the principal




dr. kusum lata
principal

Welcome to the fifth edition of the newsletter of Enactus Society of Sri Aurobindo College (Evening).
A steady walk with constant small steps can take you really far. A little help rendered in time can
make one stand on one's own. And when YOU rise I rise too. I am pleased to extend my heartiest
congratulations to the mentor and faculty advisor, Prof. Sumati Varma and the students of Enactus
for their successful efforts in bringing about some positive change in the lives of some of the
underprivileged of the society.

This fifth issue of the Newsletter of Enactus is here to keep the college apprised of the activities,
initiatives and the growth graph of the Enactus Society, and to inspire and encourage others to
come forward to contribute their bit towards uplifting the society. Established five years ago,
innovative in its approach, Enactus has been an integral part of the college and has served as a
supplement to augment our Social Outreach Programmes. Enactus has striven towards Women
Empowerment through the project ANNAPURNA aiming at Social Entrepreneurship. It is a matter of
immense pride that the Enactus team of SAC(E) has enabled women, who were earlier homemakers,
to establish tiffin service businesses, which has not only made them self reliant and independent
but also financial supporters of their families.

The team has undertaken the responsibility to help the helpless irrespective of the adverse times.
The team organized Daan Utsav at a personal level during the Covid lockdown to help the
underprivileged who were badly affected during this unprecedented crisis. The participation and
encouragement has been overwhelming.

Its Project ISHTA (Initiative for Sanitation and Hygiene Towards All) which aims at constructing
toilets in the neglected areas by using a share of the profit earned through sales of disposable toilet
seat covers at affordable price has received much appreciation.The project has widened its reach
with time and has proved very useful. It has benefited not only in honing the managerial and
entrepreneurial skills of the students, but also in arousing a sense of social responsibility in them.
I wish the team all the best for their future endeavours.

1.

From the desk of the Faculty Advisor

prof. SUMATI VARMA

FACULTY ADVISOR

It is a matter of great pride for me to present the fifth edition of STUDENT ENTERPRISE- the student newsletter from
the ENACTUS chapter of Sri Aurobindo College (Evening). The newsletter is the brain-child of the dynamic students
of the society who have exhibited the same initiative, drive and true entrepreneurial spirit in putting together this
issue as they do for their projects. The Enactus chapter of Sri Aurobindo College (Eve.) formed in 2016 and is one of
the most active student organizations in Delhi University. The chapter works on the principles of social
entrepreneurship in running two projects - PROJECT ISHTA – which was introduced in 2018 and PROJECT
ANNAPURNA which has been our flagship project since inception. The aim of Enactus is to enable students to get
real life experience and exposure in all facets of management of social enterprise by creating an ecosystem and
enabling environment for entrepreneurial activity.

Its Project ISHTA (Initiative for Sanitation and Hygiene Towards All) manufactures eco-friendly and disposable toilet
seat covers at affordable prices. The project has received much appreciation as it complements the government’s
vision of “SWACHH BHARAT” - the proceeds from out toilet seat covers are used for the construction of public
toilets in underserviced regions. ISHTA is minimalistic and follows 3 R’s- ‘Reduce’ the use of paper, ‘Redeploy’
proceeds for sanitation, and use ‘Recyclable’ material for safe disposal.

The Enactus team showed empathy and commitment as it made an enthusiastic effort in a personalized DAAN
UTSAV, where each member contributed to help the needy in their respective neighborhoods.

This year, Enactus has taken a step towards sustainability and upcycling, by conceptualising a new initiative -
Project Katran. The venture would focus on turning scrap cloth, often left out after stitching, into daily use lifestyle
items. It would directly affect underprivileged women tailors by providing them a means of employment and would
incorporate the idea of reusing and recyling for a better tomorrow.

Our flagship venture - PROJECT ANNAPURNA was conceptualized as a project which enables women empowerment
through Social Entrepreneurship. It started with enabling three homemakers, to establish a tiffin service business
and had grown in leaps and bounds. The Society has honed the business skills of these homemakers and has thus
not only helped to make them self-reliant and financially empowered, but is also instrumental in improving the
financial condition of their families. We hope to expand the ambit of the project as the city returns to normal
functioning after the pandemic.
The success of Enactus is made possible by the enthusiasm, hard work and dedication of the student team and its
members. It clearly brings out the commitment of our youth towards social responsibility – and I wish them all the
very best for the road ahead.

2.

From the desk of young editors

Kanishk Sood Rashika Arora Kaushal Jhawar

Helping, fixing and serving represent three different ways of ​seeing life. When
you help, you see life as weak. When you fix, ​you see life as broken. When you
serve, you see life as whole. ​Fixing and helping may be the work of the ego,
and service the ​work of the soul.” We here at Enactus SACE serve the people​
with all our heart and soul.

Enactus has made us learn that tactic knowledge is ​something that we often
can’t learn by reading books; it is ​acquired by addressing real problems and
practice, it relates ​to experience, ideals, intuition, values, creative thinking, ​
emotions, skills and attitudes.

It’s really very honorable for us to present the Annual newsletter 2​ 021-22 and
share the achievements of the team. The editorial team has strived to give you
an astounding mash up of thoughts. This newsletter covers articles and
achievements of the​members, notable alumni and esteemed faculty.​
With the constant support and guidance of our spectacular ​faculty advisor
Prof. Sumati Varma we are currently serving people w​ ith food and disposable
toilet seat cover under Project​ANNAPURNA & project ISHTA. We are blessed
to have her as a ​mentor and a leader, without her leadership it would have been
​impossible for us to attain all these.​

From the deep of our heart we want to convey thanks to the ​
faculty advisor, team mates and fellows.​

Joyous reading !

3.

From the desk of core team

I firmly believe that the right environment can bring out the best in anyone and Enactus

has been that for me. It was a doorway to exposure, self exploration and vast learning. I

am grateful to have led a team of such zealous members and be a small contributor to the

greater good that Enactus aims for. The journey was full of highs and lows but it has made

me more resilient and motivated than ever. Shubhavi Bajpai

President

“Wherever there is privilege, there is opportunity for welfare.” Enactus not only enables us to

acknowledge this privilege, but also provides with a platform to act upon it and work towards

the betterment of the society as a whole. Being a part of such a community makes you feel

empowered and fuelled to help and bring change on any level. It gives me immense pleasure to

lead such an inspiring, dedicated and innovative community of budding change makers.

Shefali Kaushik Cheers to more such progressive years!

Vice -President


“A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.” Similarly, it was through ups and downs that kept our team

motivated to try and go on. It’s been almost three years now that I have been a part of Enactus. Although

my roles kept changing but with it I gained experience and saw sides of me that I never thought existed.

Be it my interest in marketing and management or life lessons of being a selfless person,

gaining strong decision making skills and so much more. I’m glad I got a chance to be part of

this great odyssey that helped me transform into a better person. Rishika Chaudhary

Vice -President

My self KUMAR UTKARSH JHA and I'm the GENERAL SECRATARY of ENACTUS (SACE). I'm very
proud to serve in the society which is directly linked to uplift the underprivileged section of
the society. Connecting yourself with the real grassroot level problems and finding solutions

for that ...is another level of satisfaction. ENACTUS helped me in knowing myself.

Kumar Utkarsh Jha
General Secretary

Enactus, a platform which shares numerous growth opportunities to its members aiming

towards societal changes through entrepreneurship. Looking after the projects in covid

era, helped me to gain a lot of exposure towards uncertainty. It curated my thought

process holistically and had a collective learning experience on various aspects over the

past three years. Tushar Kumar

Joint Secretary

When our each stride is ready to acknowledges a new experience , we meet a whole new

different person at the end of that road . Being a part of Enactus is a journey of it’s kind . A

journey of learning , expressing , experiencing and growing. For me Enactus became an

avenue where i learnt to be more outspoken and it’s not just a platform to present your ideas

but also where you can implement those ideas and can help the society in a whole new

Rashika Arora innovative way .

Content Head

Enactus, as the word suggests, is related to Social Entrepreneurship. This society has a lot

to teach. One can learn about digital skills, communication skills, presentation skills and

many more. I feel proud to be the Social Media Manager of such society which is

concerned for uplifting under privileged women. The most fascinating thing about this

society is the Daan Utsav. Under this, we get an opportunity to donate things to needy

people, on doing which there is a sense of joy in ourself Kaushal Jhawar

Social Media Manager

4.

From the desk of core team

With great position comes great responsibility. Being the Digital Head of such a great society

is a wonderful journey. Enactus is such a great platform , not only for people aspiring Social

Entrepreneurship but also for those who want to have an overall growth and development in

themselves . Enactus has so much to offer. Ive personally learnt a lot through this platform

and its a been a wonderful journey altogether. Kanishk Sood

Digital Head

My name is Keshav Agarwal and I'm the marketing head of project Annapurna. It has been a
great honour for me to be a part of a society that helps in the social benefit and upliftment of

the underprivileged people by way of social entrepreneurship. My experience in Enactus has
taught me there are some things that are larger than life and the work we do in this society is

one of those.
Keshav Agarwal
Marketing Head

I believe every opportunity is a path for new learnings. Even through the unprecedented

times Enactus made me self determined towards my work and take down challenges as

our responsibility always made us empowered for the betterment of the society, and

what’s better than student’s acknowledging their responsibilty towards their society. With

this platform we all delve into our creative side so that our imagination and innovation

can contribute for the welfare of people. Aparna Suresh

Marketing Head

I have joined joined Enactus in my second year, but there wasn't a single day, when I haven't thought

that I should have join it earlier. We initiated the 'Cloth Project work' and that was the first time when

I met my team people for the first time. We went to an NGO to make deals with them. It was the first

time when we actually went for a field work and gain the knowledge about 'how are things done in the

background'. We went to Noida and met some underprivileged women who could stitch beautifully

and carve them into any handmade cloth accessories such as handbags, purse, etc. I would love to

Shekhar Singh work on such project again. I thank Enactus wholeheartedly.

Research Head

Enactus gave me a platform where in could instantaneously apply my classroom learnings on

our projects.It had made me realise how easily do we neglect longterm vision while taking

decisions against the short term gains.I now have an altogether new vision in terms of a process

one should follow while setting up a project or scaling it up.Collaborating and brainstorming

sessions gave me a new perspective in solving problems.I feel honoured to be a part of such

community which works for the welfare of underprivileged people. Sanchit Grover

Core Team Member

Through Enactus i was able to gather knowledge about the stuff which I was earlier unaware
of . Enactus is a society of social entrepreneurs and it helped in developing my interest in that
field which earlier i didn’t know much about . I learned about team work and was able to hone

many other skills by being a part of Enactus . I am sure all the experience which i acquired in
these three years will be helping me in organization’s professional work and culture.

Amit Kumar
Core Team Member

5.

project annapurna

Annapurna began about 5 years ago with the goal of assisting women in selling
food to students so that they might become financially independent. Due to the
Covid-19 outbreak, we had to devise a new strategy in which our role would be to
bridge the gap between suppliers and consumers by collaborating with other
tiffin services and non-food PGs. Until last year, we were able to conduct research
on the tiffin services with whom we could collaborate, as well as complete our
SWOT analysis and formulate our goal, which you can see in our mission
statement. We were given more time this year to perform things like field
research and collaborations with other societies from various campuses, and to
conduct our market research, which will be funded by food delivery companies
such as Swiggy and Zomato. Fyndhere, a startup, was also willing to advertise our
suppliers on their website. So, this is our plan for this semester.
For now, we are going to create an Annapurna online directory to list all the
house food services/tiffin services run by underprivileged people. The listings will
be categorized according to the needs of people. And our work there will be to
provide all the information we have to let people contact these tiffin services.
We have a great and active research team that can help us get ratings and
feedback for each of these tiffin services. The upside to this repurposing is that
this can be done with the comfort of our homes and goes with the digital
transformation India is undergoing and also keep our team members safe from
the ongoing pandemic.
Each tiffin service listing on the website will contain:

The name, address, contact numbers of the tiffin services.
The images of how the food looks like, what’s usually on the menu, and what
the kitchen where the food is cooked looks like.
Feedback from some of the customers. (If the tiffin services are new to the
market and never had any customers, we’ll list that as well and won’t provide
any ratings in that case)
Delivery time and other essential information.

Right now, we are in the process of creating/designing our website and we are
expecting it to start operating by the end of this month.

6. - Keshav Agarwal

7.

project katran

Project Katran, is an initiative with the motive of sustainable development and
women empowerment by providing them employment opportunities. Huge piles of
clothes are being dumped by factories and even from small tailor shops, the idea is
to turn all the scrap cloth materials which gets discarded by these factories and
tailoring shops and to turn them into finished products , reuse them in the form of
bags , mats or home decorative material and thus providing employment
opportunities to the underprivileged women.It will be a versatile project because a
few products will get launched under this project .

The project hasn’t started yet but soon we will. Our main focus right now is to get
manufactures who can make the product for us. For that we are focusing on women
in NGO's who are into stitching who can be a part of us. Our team will research
about all the manufacturers and suppliers who will provide us the scrap material.
Listing it out and getting a field work done will be the head start for our project.

A catalogue of both the suppliers and manufacturers will be prepared and we will
work accordingly. Last year in October we did a field visit to a NGO ‘Sadrag’ , founded
by Dr. Mala Bhandari . The main motive behind this visit was to get thorough with
our idea and to know how exactly everything will turn if we start a project like this ,
the selling price , the cost price , designing , marketing , packaging etc. all these
aspects were covered in this field visit all though much more is there we need to
research on but this visit wasn’t futile because it gave us a hope that we can do this,
looking at the women who were working there in their lunch time just because they
wanted to do something for passion for their hobby they weren’t expecting some
monetary support for their work. They were just doing it because it made them
happy .

And we all believe in supporting and encouraging talent . If someone has a talent , it
might need a little improvisation we are ready to do that and we want to help them
and all the women like them who have so much to give to their society but just there
is no one to acknowledge their efforts and their talent .

- Aparna Suresh 8.

ishta

"ISHTA" - Initiative for Sanitation & Hygiene Towards All. ISHTA was launched on
7th February, 2019. ISHTA is working in association with ISHTA Creation, managed
by Ms. Neena Narayan. The project ISHTA initiates sanitation and promotes
hygiene in the society. ISHTA's product is a safe disposable toilet seat cover for
the use in multiple user toilets to protect the user from the germs that might be
resting on the seat by creating a protective barrier. It provides a convenient way
to maintain hygiene. We often avoid using public washrooms, fearing germs and
bacterias, breeding on the seat, or other UTIS infections because of the multiple
usage of the restroom. To avoid this situation we either relieve ourselves without
getting our bodies come in contact with the surface of the seat or abstain
ourselves from using public washrooms at all. Apparently, these methods doesn't
provide an easy and an effective solution. Here is when ISHTA comes handy,
relieving you of these struggles which are quite frequent while traveling and
touring. ISHTA gives you the freedom to use public washrooms without
compromising your hygiene.
ISHTA's product is a disposable seat cover, made of a premium fabric which is soft
to sit, waterproof, recyclable and easy to carry. It supports and fits in all varieties
of seats anywhere like in clinic, railways etc. It is very convenient to use as there
is no need to set, wipe and sanitize. The user just have to fit the cover and sit,
contact free. The smart fold ensures that there is no hand contact needed with
the toilet seat and holds the cover in place while in use. We understand the
necessity of such a product and how price plays a significant in it. Infact price is
one of the most favourable factor of this product as the product comes in a cheap
and an affordable price. The product is both user-friendly and pocket-friendly. It
comes in a packing of 5 covers costing Rs. 100 per pack. ISHTA's vision isn't limited
to this, we understand that these disposable covers can only provide a temporary
solution. So, to achieve the far - sighted vision of ISHTA we invest a portion of our
sale proceeds in organizations constructing and maintaining restrooms.

9. - Rashika Arora

our events

E-WASTE MANAGEMENT WEBINAR

E-waste is any electrical or electronic equipment that’s been discarded. This
includes working and broken items that are thrown in the garbage or donated to
a charity reseller like Goodwill. Often, if the item goes unsold in the store, it will
be thrown away. E-waste is particularly dangerous due to toxic chemicals that
naturally leach from the metals inside when buried.
E-waste contains a laundry list of chemicals that are harmful to people and the
environment, like: mercury, lead, beryllium, brominated flame retardants, and
cadmium, i.e. stuff that sounds as bad as it is. When electronics are mishandled
during disposal, these chemicals end up in our soil, water, and air.
To make matters worse, electronic waste is sometimes illegally exported to
countries that don’t have laws on handling and disposing of it. Once there, it’s
dumped. Sometimes, valuable materials are recovered, but often in unsafe
working conditions.
E-waste is one of the fastest-growing waste streams on the planet. Already, we
produce something like 50 million tonnes of it each year. And that number’s only
set to increase as electronics become more accessible worldwide.

10.

And to know more about this problem and what can be done to prevent it the
Enactus society of Sri Aurobindo College (Evening) organized a webinar in
collaboration with E-Junki on the importance of electronic waste management
on 20th August. E-Junki is an initiative of collecting E-waste from households and
colleges, E-Junki is incorporated to focus on reducing the landfill due to
improper disposal of e-waste and thus they advocate sustainable living and
have launched this e-waste collection and it’s proper disposal management
service .
Many students from different colleges attended this event. We were briefed
that electronic waste is one of the rapidly growing environmental problems of
the world. We were told that electronic waste management assumes greater
significance not only due to the generation of our own waste but also dumping
of e-waste particularly computer waste from the developed countries. We were
also told about the different ways in which we can minimize e-waste
(Reduce,Reuse,Repair and Recycle). This event turned out to be a great success
for our society and we were honored to be the host of this great event.

11.

DAAN UTSAV

"It is easier to take than to give. It’s nobler to give than to take. The thrill of taking
lasts a day. The thrill of giving lasts a liftime ."

The Daan Utsav was was organized from 5th october 2021 to 10th october 2021 to
donate useful things and essentials to needy and unprivileged section of our
society.Our society members took this responsibility religiously to serve the society
and humanity with utmost enthusiasm and real spirit of DAAN.Each day,2-3 members
of our society went to nearby slum areas of their locality and donated volunteerly to
needy people and children. Overall Daan Utsav was a successful initiative of
influencing and urging to donate .It's overwhelming for us too see that the commoner
had contributed with their heart. However, it was a pleasure for Enactus SACE to be
part of Daan utsav . It is a pleasure to do a activity like this to be able to organise such
drives where we can serve people . The things we give them might be just a piece of
old cloth or some old stuff for us but for them it is a luxury.

12.

SARVODYA

Sarvodya is a Sanskrit term which generally means "universal uplift" or "progress
of all". The term was used by Mahatma Gandhi as the title of his 1908 translation
of John Ruskin's critique of political economy, Unto This Last, and Gandhi came to
use the term for the ideal of his own political philosophy. Universal uplift and
progress of all , keeping that in our hearts Sarvodya became the name for our
event .
Nobody looks at environmental change from the local/ self-level. Only local
conservations strike global change. So, We at Enactus SACE are trying to facilitate
the conservation of the environment by tapping realisation from the pandemic
situation and turning this into reality. Sarvodya is an activity conducted by
Enactus, SACE to facilitate the conservation of environment by planting trees and
feeding stray animals.
Our society members took this responsibility religiously to the conservation of
environment. All the members took initiative to conserve the environment and
contribute in bringing positive changes in our surroundings and making this a
better place for all of us to live. wholeheartedly we all took part in this and strived
to bring a positive impact . As Mahatma Gandhi said “ Be the change you want to
see in the world “.Every change initiates from within us we have to do if we want
the world to do it with us.

13.

PODCAST ON OZONE LAYER

The ozone layer is our earth's shield protecting us from Sun's harmful rays which
can cause a numerous skin diseases, and in the last few years the ozone layer has
depleted extensively.
Ozone depletion is greatest at the south pole, mainly occurs in late winter and
early spring and this severe depletion had created the so called "ozone hole". The
ozone layer recovery is a very slow and long process
The hole grew in the years following ratification of Montreal Protocol, over the
past 30 years we have made some progress in healing the shield but still more
remains to be done to protect and restore it.
Most man- made ozone depleting substances are also potent greenhouse gases,
and some of them have global warming effect upto 14000 times stronger than
carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas.
Although, the global phase out of ozone depleting substances such as hydro-
chlorofluorocarbons ( HFC's) and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) has made a
significant contribution to combat climate change but the complete phase out has
led to the use of other types of gases which have significant global warming effect
The recent IPCC ( Intergovernmental Panel
On Climate Change) is a testament of that which states :
The average surface temperature of the Earth will cross 1.5 °C over pre-industrial
levels in the next 20 years ) and 2°C by the middle of the century. 1.5°C warming
was inevitable even in the best case scenario. And the Carbon dioxide highest in
atleast 2 million years.

14.

September 16th is celebrated as World Ozone Day every year. Designated by the
United Nations General Assembly, for creating awareness about and for the
preservation of the Ozone Layer. So, Enactus SACE decided to contribute a whole
week as "Ozone Week" for creating awareness about the dire need to prevent
Ozone layer depletion by engaging not only our members but students all across
the country through our social media posts and through an delightful
collaboration with the Sustainability 101 Podcast.
In the podcast, two of Enactus SACE's members had a fruitful discussion on the
importance of sustainability to stop Ozone layer depletion and pragmatic
solutions to the problem.

They also shared some information about Enactus SACE's other student-run
programs like "Sarvodya" and "The Pottery Project"; both of which promote
sustainability among people. It was truly an insightful podcast, enlightening us
about the ways in which we can individually contribute towards the cause.

15.

YOUTH LEADERSHIP SUMMIT

The Global Challenges Forum Foundation, India, organized a National
UNSDG Webinar and All India Youth Leadership Summit on the 1st
October, 2021. The aim of the conference was to present a roadmap and
explore innovative ideas to reach the key Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs) in India. Four SDGs - Zero Hunger, Health, Quality
Education and Employment were selected and teams showcased
different projects focused on these.
Students and young working professionals from all over India
participated in this competitive event. The event featured a formal
association with the United Nations Institute for Training and Research
(UNITAR), Switzerland to propagate a special project for raising 1 million
youth leaders for sustainable development by 2030 and beyond.
Educators, international dignitaries, diplomats, UN project
coordinators, all were a part of the conference.
Enactus SACE not only participated in the Summit, but was also selected
among the top 6 qualified teams. The team presented the project Search
Years, run by Mr. Ashutosh Shelat, which aims to bring arts to the
center of the educational experience of children and young adults
through integrated arts education. The event was a great platform for
Enactus to display its ideas and vision and was a great experience for
everyone who participated.

16.

stories

dejunk - Ashwajeet singh

Dejunk is a social venture started in 2019 by Ashwajeet Singh. This venture
repurpose & upcycle waste that would end up in landfills & transform it into
meaningful fashion and home furnishing articles. The waste materials of various
industries is the Dejunk's raw material.

"While sourcing the raw materials and that's leftover yarns and thread of other
fashion and textile industries, we were startled as everybody was using the
word "waste" whilst referring to their leftovers." Ashwajeet said.
Picking up the idea of transforming the waste of others into some meaningful
fashion and home decor by this situation they started the endeavour in 2019.

1. The major impact on environment was they transform the waste of other
industries that would otherwise end up in a landfill.
2. Since the articles they produce are hand-woven, they provide employment in
large scale.
3. Everything they create is chemical-free and the production is done without
the use of water as well making it environment friendly.

There were many challenges that they faced :
1. Gathering the waste material of other industries was hectic initially.
2. Waste yarns can be of different colors and texture, combining them to form a
new article can be challenging.
3. The process is wholly labour intensive making it time consuming and hard.

- Aditi Gupta 17.

HEIRLOOMS REIMAGINED FOR THE MODERN INDIAN TABLE

sundooq - virkein dhar

Sundooq which means a trunk or a box of
keepsakes is built as a memoir and an
exploration of unique flavors and intimate
memories that are found in the diverse
landscapes of India. They give a journey of
bustling flavors, sounds and aromas of regional
Indian kitchens, which hold within them recipes
that have lived across generations. It is an ode
to mothers and grandmothers, the living
archives of traditional flavors that create our
memories of home.

Virkein Dhar, founder of SUNDOOQ shares that it was her journey to uncover and
untangle these threads, to explore stories from past and food that lived on. The aim
was to re-imagine and create the new stories, beliefs and food that we must take
with us into our future.
At the heart of each dish is a story. Stories that are embedded with markers of
ecological balance and sustainable living, a pressing need for our futures. The
recipes are sourced from mothers and grandmothers, who have been the keepers
of traditional food knowledge for generations and are masters of nutrition and
proportions.

With each recipe mix, they bring forth the food of communities that remain hidden
from one another, and attempt to infuse a new Indian food culture that facilitates
conversation of traditional recipes and cooking techniques, while promoting local,
healthy and ethically sourced produce.

It offers you 100% vegetarian, gluten free, zero preservative spice mixes. Sundooq
uses traceable, sustainably sourced and ethically produced ingredients in their
mixes. The brand’s artisanal blends are paked in recyclable packinging and
delivered to you to notch up your home experience. The brand stands for diversity.
There is an experience box as well which includes four ready to cook curry mixes,
three ready to eat chutney mixes, along with recipe cards, all packed in a beautiful
box wrapped up in a mul fabric. Perfect for gifting too.

Identified as a curious maker more than a chef. Sundooq was born out of the
pandemic, with a need to pivot and re- imagine storytelling in more ways than one.
Virkein was selected as one of the top 5 brands in the Condiments category of India
by Home Cheffies Power Brand Awards 2021.

18. - Lovish Bhutani

shef - Urvashi Sahni

Urvashi Sahni is an educator, social entrepreneur and
a feminist activist. She is a leading expert in school

governance, curriculum reform and teacher training
with a special focus on girls education and the use of

technology in education.
Married at the age of 17, she had 2 daughters by the

time she was 23 - both unwelcome in a patriarchal
culture. When she was 27, her sister was burnt to
death over dowry. Such experiences fueled her anger
at the oppression and dehumanization of girls and
women, and led her to question why, despite their
high-quality education, she and her sister had not had

the agency to make important life choices.

In response, she founded Suraksha (a women’s rights organization), followed
by Study Hall Educational Foundation (SHEF, an educational organization that
empowers students and teachers as changemakers) and DiDi's (a social
enterprise for sustainable livelihoods for women).

She’s currently president and CEO of SHEF, through which her work has
impacted over 100,000 teachers and 5 million children, most of whom are girls
from marginalized communities.

Additionally, Dr Sahni is an Ashoka Fellow, a non-resident fellow at the Center
for Universal Education at The Brookings Institution, U.S.A., and a former
member of Rajasthan’s Chief Minister’s Advisory Council. In 2017, she was
declared the Social Entrepreneur of the Year India by the Schwab-Jubilant
Bhartiya Foundation, and joined the international fellowship of Schwab social
entrepreneurs. She is also a co-creator of Catalyst 2030, a global network of
over 600 social entrepreneurs engaged in expediting the SDGs globally through
their innovations.

Currently she has been invited by the Government of Uttar Pradesh to serve on
the Steering Committee for the Implementation of the National Education
Policy of India 2020. Recently, Dr Sahni was named in Asia’s Most Influential:
The Impact List 2020 (a list of the most impactful individuals who are defining
the future of Asia) published by Tatler Magazine. Dr Sahni is also leading ‘The
UP Collective’, a consortium of NGOs in Uttar Pradesh to galvanize their efforts
in realizing the SDGs. PHD Chamber of Commerce has conferred the 6th Astitva
Samman 2021 to Dr Urvashi Sahni for the commendable work done by her in
the time of Covid-19 & special focus on girl’s education & gender equality on
February 12, 2021.

- Prachi Sharma 19.

Goonj.. a voice , an effort

- anshu gupta

Anshu Gupta is an Indian entrepreneur who
founded the non-governmental organisation
Goonj. Goonj works on bridging the gap between
urban and rural inequality.
Born in Meerut, He spent his initial years in
Chakrata, Banbasa — small towns of
Uttarakhand and Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh as his
father got postings in his job with the Indian
Army's Military Engineer Services (MES).Anshu
started as a freelance journalist after
completing his schooling. He used to write about
history, monuments and humanitarian issues.

He realised that one of the needs of human beings is clothing, which for the poor
people is often overlooked and, in the year 1999, he started Goonj, with his wife
Meenakshi and a few friends, to work on the basic need of clothing, an issue that
does not have a place in the development agenda.
He started Goonj with just 67 pieces of cloth collected first with his wife and friends,
at their home in Sarita Vihar. Today it is spread across 28 states and is working in
over 4000 villages employing over 1000 people.
Using cloth as a metaphor for other crucial but ignored needs, his ideology being
that roti, kapda, makaan are the three most essential needs of an individual. The
first two are always in focus, clothing has never received the attention it deserved
but is essential in maintaining the “dignity” of an individual.

Goonj also helps to bridge the gap between victims during natural calamities like
floods, earthquakes with donors.He is popularly known as the clothing man of India
for his mission of bringing ignored basics like clothing into the mapping of
development work.
Gupta initiated the Not Just a Piece of Cloth campaign after the 2004 tsunami.
According to Anshu, "we dealt with more than 100 tracks of post-disaster cloth
wastage on the roads of Tamil Nadu. The unwearable cloth from this lot was turned
into cloth menstrual pads”.

For nearly two decades, he has been working on varied disasters from earthquakes
to tsunamis, cyclones, floods, etc. Goonj’s initiative “Rahat” has evolved into an
active, reliable and time-tested network of stakeholders in both rural & urban India.
Entrepreneurs like him inspire us in a variety of ways and motivate many others to
do the same.

20. - Raghav Aggarwal

art for life - search years

ashutosh shelat

Search Years is an NGO which aims to bring arts to the center of the educational
experience of children and young adults through integrated arts education.

Through this initiative, they are trying to develop an environment of education
that does not yet exist in the country wherein creative and performing arts can
be used to imbibe skills of observation, exploration and reflection in their
learning.

Born in Gujarat, India, Mr. Ashutosh Shelat has been inclined towards arts since
his school days. He left the corporate world and started Search Years in 1996. He
started off by taking pottery classes at Delhi Haat, National Arts Museum etc.
along with his wife.

By 2006 he started teaching in government aided schools in Gurugram, through
the medium of theatre. Slowly volunteers who learned about this initiative
started joining him.

IMPACT CREATED -
Started with a small village in Gurugram and later spread across a substantial
area, not just in Gurugram but other villages of Haryana.
Students who learned arts started improving in their overall academic
performance. Enhanced concentration, ability to express and emote, value of
team effort and healthy competences was observed.
Children primarily from Hindu and Muslim religious backgrounds used to attend
the classes. The villages they came from did not have religious tolerance towards
each other's religion. It was observed that a sense of religious acceptance and
harmony had started developing amongst the kids and the families, due to
constant healthy interaction and a collaborative learning environment.

- Kanishk Sood 21.



being chef - sHUBHAM MAHESHWARI

Sandeep is an entrepreneur and founded BEING
CHEF in 2014. Born and brought up in Jaipur, he
pursued engineering from NIIT- Jaipur. He also
runs a self-help group named ‘People for People’,

in which his team works for binding the gap
between societal problems and their solutions.
For his social contributions, he was awarded the
“Youth Change Maker Award” in the year 2010.



His startup is into F&B space and provides a one-

stop solution in veg food ranging from DIY
cooking kit to fully cooked meal and homely
economic meals to exotic premium meals in a
healthy manner by flexible mode of subscription

and on-demand nutritional meals.

Being Chef’s recipe kit empowers consumers to cook anything in less than my
minutes. It provides buyers with all the ingredients, chopped and processed,
customized as per one’s taste with a simple 8 step recipe card.
Sandeep shares his story of how he faced challenges to cook while he was
staying with his friends. They hired a cook to manage their daily meals but
were disappointed with boring and repetitive meals. Finding a good cook is a
big problem due to huge demand-supply mismatch. They tried cooking
themselves but ended up eating from outside as it consumed a lot of time to
cook.

He also shares that the wastage of food always bothered him a lot. A lot of food
gets wasted in the millennial’s kitchen. In a country like India, where 15% of the
population sleeps hungry night, this becomes a major concern. With this he
started working on a product that could make cooking easy and fun and BEING
CHEF came into existence.
The quantity of food provided by being chef depends on the number of people
you have ordered for, thus resulting in zero wastage of raw material or cooked
food. Quality of food is also taken care of, as buyers can physically see the
quality of ingredients being used.

His startup has served 5,00,000+ meals till date. Received the “Transformation
of the year” award at Amazon SMBHAV in presence of Jeff Bezos and many
others. He was a finalist of SMART50 competition organized by government of
India, to find those 50 companies which will transform India. Entrepreneurs like
him are always inspiring us in a lot of ways and drives many others to do same.

22. - Manvi Garg

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Shark Tank India

Badalte Bharat ki nayi soch ko mil raha hain ek naya manch, jahan ubharte
businessmen ke sapne honge sach!

Celebrating India's growing entrepreneurship ecosystem, shark tank India was
brought which promises to offer a refreshing experience for business enthusiasts
with the very first edition of the World's No.1 business reality show.

This revolutionary show will give an opportunity to budding entrepreneurs to
make it big by pitching their business ideas to a group of eminent self-made
businessmen aka The Sharks and seek their investment.

And we will present some of those revolutionary pitches which brought with them
a solution to a social problem .
So let’s begin :

1 Menstrupedia

Menstrupedia is the brainchild of Aditi Gupta and is a fast-growing Startup that
offers awareness regard to menstruation in the form of comic books, animated
videos, and workshops.

Menstrupedia Comic is a colorful, fun, and accessible guide to menstruation,
following the journey of three young girls and their experience with menstruation.
Each character represents a stage of adolescence – girls who are premature and
want to learn more about them; girls who have just started menstruating and are
seeking advice on how to prepare for it; and girls who have been around for a long
time and maybe curious about the myths around them.

In the show Shark Tank, Menstrupedia bagged Rs
50 lakh for 20% of its liquidation by Emcure CEO
Namita Thapar.

Opinion : Well in a country where talking about
menstruation is still a taboo and in an eduction
system where teachers still feel discomfort in
teaching “THAT “ chapter in eight grade , this is a
revolutionary product where they have fused
knowledge with fun. So why not !

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2. Peeschute

The initiative is committed to improving the cleanliness of toilets in India and the
creation of affordable unisex disposable urine bags. Its founder Siddhant
Tawarawala came from Jalna, Maharashtra
Along with having a sustainable entrepreneurial model, Peeschute also aims to
provide women employment in the rural sector of the country. The firm will
provide training and then employment to rural women. Thus reducing a wage
disparity.

The pitch impressed Shark Aman Gupta and Anupam Mittal. The deal was clocked
at 75 lakh for 6% in the company.

Opinion : The problems that this product is tackling is amazing firstly CLEAN
TOILETS, i mean if you are a female who is travelling , then in that travelling
finding a clean toilet is the most daunting task , but with this product you don’ t
have to suffer anymore just carrying your disposable urine bag which also
solidifies the urine leaving no reeking odour , so next time this product will
definately be in my travelling check list ✅ and one more reason they are striving
for women employment which is just cherry on the cake .

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3 KG Agrotech




Kamlesh Ghumare, a proud son of a proud farmer saw his dad carrying a huge
container on his back while farming and according to him all the farmers have to
carry a 20-gallon container of pesticides on their shoulders, a tedious task that can
expose them to chemicals. But with his invention, farmers could easily move
around the farm, spraying pesticides without a problem, he said.
Moreover, his solution seems inexpensive and could ultimately solve the
challenges faced by millions of farmers in India. After being rejected by all of the
sharks, it was Peyush who decided to back his vision of Kamlesh by providing him
10 lakh for 40% equity and 20 lakh as debt for zero percent interest.
Opinion : He might not be the one with the best technology or with the best
product but the thought behind the idea and the pitch were perfect and through
him we were also able to saw a glimpse of one of the many problems that our
farmers face !

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4. Scholify

Scholify founded by Mayank Pareek is a revolutionary platform designed for
students to help do their best in what matters the most, ‘education’.
They match students with the right scholarships for them in the most simple and
hassle-free way. Scholify is dedicated to turning students into “mindful students”
and making them “successful-able”.Their goal is to ensure that no student has to
quit studies or compromise on the quality of education because of financial
constraints or a bad decision. Till now they have given scholarships to two
thousand two hundred children!

But as a profit organisation, they haven’t earned anything yet!! And that why no
shark deluged themselves in this initiative.

Opinion : Although he was’nt able to get the investment and the sharks onboard
but intentionally or unintentionally his generosity helped many student and
philanthropist can also be rich they can also make a way of living by giving , just
they have wait for the right time .

- Rashika Arora 26.

Social entrepreneurship: the new face of business

Social entrepreneurship has grown in popularity in recent years. Billions of dollars
have been invested into the field, and thousands of schools now offer social
entrepreneurship classes and degrees. But what is the actual purpose of social
entrepreneurship? Is it to make money, to provide services, or to solve the social
problem? Social entrepreneurship is a for-profit business model that strives to make
a positive impact on social issues or the environment. A social entrepreneur,
therefore, is a person who explores business opportunities that have a positive
impact on their community, society, or the world. Today’s young people are as
concerned with making a positive impact on the world as they are with making
money. A whopping 94% want to use their skills to benefit a cause.

The common objective of all social entrepreneurship initiatives involves the welfare
of the community, the only difference being the type of its formation. The various
forms of social entrepreneurship are listed below:

1. The Community Social Entrepreneur - This entrepreneur seeks to serve the social
needs of a community within a small geographical area. These entrepreneurial
initiatives could be anything from creating job opportunities for marginalized
members to building a community center. Social entrepreneurs on this scale are
usually individuals or small organizations. Microfinance loans are one example -
offering financial solutions to local people with no access to banking.

2. The Non-Profit Social Entrepreneur - These entrepreneurs are focused on social,
not material gain, meaning they prioritize social well-being over traditional business
needs. They reinvest any profits into the business to facilitate the further expansion
of services

3. The Transformational Social Entrepreneur - These people are focused on creating a
business that can meet the social needs that governments and other businesses
aren't currently meeting. The transformational category is often what non-profits
evolve to with sufficient time and growth. They become larger organizations with
rules and regulations - sometimes growing to the point of working with or getting
integrated into governmental bodies.

4 The Global Social Entrepreneur - These entrepreneurs seek to completely change
social systems to meet major social needs globally. It's often where big companies
end up when they realize their social responsibility and begin concentrating on
positive change as opposed to just profits.

Social entrepreneurship is the rising star in the business world. It is trying to change

the business world entirely. It is a new business model because it has a social cause

or motto, it keeps the entrepreneur motivated, and helps in discovering life's

purpose. Most importantly, It is what today's consumers want. - Jiya Singhal 27.

SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN EDUCATION

Social entrepreneurs are agents of positive change who address challenges
through an enterprising approach. They develop businesses which trade for a
social or environmental purpose, reinvest profits into their mission, and are
accountable for their actions. They create jobs and bring hope to our most
disadvantaged communities, delivering social, environmental and economic value.
Through their innovative approaches to reduce inequalities, social enterprises
might even provide a model for rebalancing how money and power are controlled.

Education too seeks to reduce inequality but unfortunately it remains a privilege
that is still beyond reach for many children. Meanwhile, youth unemployment
continues to rise globally, and the jobs that young people can secure in many parts
of the world are often poorly paid. The result is increasing income inequality and
an ever widening divide between rich and poor. And this is taking place at a time
of profound technological, social and environmental change. It begs the question:
how could our education systems better prepare our children to meet the
challenges that await them in an uncertain future?

This is the context that inspired this think piece, which sets out to explore
whether social entrepreneurship could be integrated into education systems and
what education leaders make of this prospect. It considers how this would create
opportunities for young people to solve global issues and equip them with a
lifelong capacity to address problems. And it asks what a social enterprise
curriculum might comprise and how it could be delivered at scale through our
education systems.

Something that both professionals and those outside of education systems seem
to agree on is that historically, education was about how to live a good,
meaningful and fulfilling life. Could social entrepreneurship education provide a
framework to develop the skills and understanding to live a good, meaningful and
fulfilling life in the 21st century?

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Creating entrepreneurial opportunities for children and young people in school,
early and throughout their education, provides one way to blend traditional and
progressive approaches, generating powerful learning that embeds both
knowledge and core skills. Many of the best examples of social enterprise
education use the expertise and skills of social entrepreneurs themselves.
Teachers do not have to be entrepreneurs to use entrepreneurial experiences to
teach problem solving and values for example. On the other hand, this
experiential learning needs to allow for the possibilities of failure and being
unable to find the answer, which can be uncomfortable for teachers and highlights
just one area where partnerships with entrepreneurs can be useful.
Many of the skills and gifts that make a great entrepreneur are not highly valued
within a traditional school environment, yet they may resonate with children who
do not feel engaged by school or by some educational approaches. Social
entrepreneurship education could be an opportunity for those children to shine,
not another subject to fail. Achieving such a change may require drawing on the
insights and experiences of social entrepreneurs.
The best examples we can find of successful and transformative education are
where values and entrepreneurship were embedded into the fabric of the school,
not taught in isolation.

29. - Muskan Aggarwal

Social entrepreneurship elevating healthcare
infrastructure especially in times of Pandemic.

In the era of Covid 19 Pandemic, despite the availability of new vaccines and
therapies, many uncertainties remain in low- and middle-income families,
where access to quality health services remains limited. However, this moment
of crisis is also one of opportunity, especially for social entrepreneurs
committed to positive social impact and improving health at the grassroots
level. Social entrepreneurs are stepping up to help those most vulnerable to the
health and economic effects of the crisis.

Since 2016, the Global Health Innovations Grants (GHIG) initiative has been
helping social entrepreneurs in low-resource settings through multiple cycles of
non-dilutive funding. Supported by The Pfizer Foundation* and managed in
partnership with Innovations in Healthcare, a nonprofit hosted by Duke
University, the GHIG program aims to accelerate community-based health
innovations with stronger evidence to inform scale and sustainability.

Delivering vital health services to communities in low-resource settings – where
there can be limited infrastructure, transportation difficulties, unreliable
power sources, and shifting political landscapes – can be challenging. Even
before Covid-19, many of the organizations supported through the GHIG
initiative were making efforts to integrate new technologies within national
health systems and increase access to quality healthcare for the hardest-to-
reach populations.

The swiftness and efficiency with which social entrepreneurs have responded
to the COVID-19 pandemic in India and its impacts have made one thing clear:
their on-the-ground presence and ability to act as first responders in support of
vulnerable communities are incredibly important to global COVID-19 response
efforts. These are some of the examples of it:-

1.Providing healthcare to people in remote areas
Glocal Healthcare was founded in 2010 in response to the vast need for
healthcare services in India, especially in rural areas where more than 28
million people who can't have access to affordable and accountable healthcare
services.

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Glocal Healthcare recently launched a free telemedicine consultation for COVID-
19 screenings. This can be accessed both from phone line as well as from
websites and apps. The goal is to prevent panic; ensure correct screening, triage
and treatment before conditions become too serious; and prevent the health
infrastructure from collapsing.
Over the past 10 years, the company has built 10 fully functional, 100-bed multi-
speciality hospitals in states including Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Odisha and West
Bengal. It has set up 250 digital dispensaries, which provide video consultations,
examination, investigations and automated medicine dispensing.
2. Providing resources to the most vulnerable.
Goonj is an NGO based in New Delhi, India which undertakes disaster relief,
humanitarian aid and community development in parts of 23 states across
India.
During the crisis, Goonj has already worked with more than 400 partner
organisations to extend its reach in both rural and urban areas. It has
distributed necessities like meals and healthcare products to more than 1.5
million people.
3. Aajeevika Bureau, a specialised institutional initiative providing services,
support and security to rural seasonal migrant workers, has been intensively
involved in providing relief to stranded migrant workers, daily wagers and their
households to see them through this period of distress.
Relief included emergency food distribution, cash transfers, health care and
help to workers in distress reaching out to us through our Labour Line.

31. - Aditi Gupta

4 must readS for young entrepreneurial minds

1. How to Change the World - David Bornstein

David Bornstein is a journalist who
specializes in writing about social
innovation.

In this book, David Bornstein has talked
about a growing group of individuals all

around the world who he refers to as
“social entrepreneurs”.

This huge group of people are known to bring innovative ideas to the table and help
in finding solutions to a wide variety of social and economic problems. In How to
Change the World, Bornstein provides profiles of many such individuals, looking at
the personalities, strategies, and techniques they have in common. The case
studies in the book include Jody Williams, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for the
international campaign against landmines she ran by e-mail from her Vermont
home; Roberto Baggio, a 31-year old Brazilian who has established eighty computer
schools in the slums of Brazil; and Diana Propper, who has used investment banking
techniques to make American corporations responsive to environmental dangers.

2. The Greater Good - Madeleine Shaw

Madeleine Shaw, an award winning social
entrepreneur shares insights from her 25 year
journey and uses this book as an encouraging tool
for people to consider starting their own impact
based ventures for “The Greater Good”.

This book gives a deeply personal look at the
growing movement of non traditional
entrepreneurs whose ventures aim at creating
social and environmental change in the world.

The Greater Good book sends out an invitation to everyone including women,
racialized people and other underrepresented individuals who may not find
themselves in the traditional profile of entrepreneurial scale and success. It
teaches readers how to map and mine their unique experiences in order to
formulate their unique vision for change.

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3. We Do Things Differently: The Outsiders Rebooting Our

World - Mark Stevenson

A brilliant inspirational book which shows that common
sense and a bit of proper thinking can still create genuine
innovation.

In this book “We Do Things Differently”, historian and
futurologist Mark Stevenson sets out to find new
approaches to modern challenges, across four continents.
From rural India to a shed inventor in England's home
counties, Mark Stevenson travels the world to find the
advance guard re-imagining our future. At each stop, he
meets various innovators who have already succeeded in
finding ways to make our world more sustainable,
equitable and humane.

It is a book that is well written and easily accesible. The
readers get to learn about the amazing people and their
wonderful initiatives to improve our world and make it a
better place.

4. Getting Beyond Better: How Social Entrepreneurship

Works by Roger Martin and Sally R. Osberg

Getting Beyond Better offers an important and
distinctive perspective with clear definitions and
examples on what social entrepreneurship is, how it
works, and how one can succeed doing it. It outlines a

number of practical and actionable approaches
grounded in for-profit entrepreneurship.



The two authors, Martin and Osberg lay out a
framework to understand how successful social

entrepreneurs actually go about producing
transformative change in the world. It is a well
structured piece of writing that provides concrete
lessons for the individuals who seek to transform our

world for the better.

33. - Drishya Chadha

Enactus Core Team 2021-22

Shubhavi Bajpai RISHIKA CHAUDHARY sHEFALI kaushik
President VICE - President Vice - President

kumar Utkarsh Jha Tushar kumar rASHIKA ARORA kaushal jhawar
General Secretary joint Secretary CONTENT HEAD social media
manager

kANISHK sOOD Keshav Agarwal aparna suresh
dIGITAL hEAD marketing hEAD marketing hEAD

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