Skoll World Forum – 2009

I am at the Skoll World Forum at Said Business School, University of Oxford. Check out my blog at social edge http://www.socialedge.org/blogs/skoll-scholars-2009 and my tweets are at http://twitter.com/dhruv_lakra
time to get inspired and change the world,
rock on
Dhruv

Social Innovation Award

Mirakle Couirers has been awarded for social innovation from Indira Institute of Management in pune. I was there to receive the award over the weekend. It’s nice to see MBA institutes acknowledging social innovations and awarding them. I think this will create an interest in social entrepreneurship in MBA institutes, which is the need of [...]

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Mirakle Workers!!

A very happy new year from Mirakle Workers. This is the super team. Their names are in order  from the left – Suraj, Gaurang, Rinku, Ravindra and Ganesh.  These deaf boys are true rockers, and have delivered more than 250 envelopes over last month. Today, we all went for ice – creams to celebrate the [...]

60 is our lucky number!

we have got another 60 deliveries to do, and now is the time when we are focusing on sorting. The better we sort, the faster the deliveries. We are spending a lot of time on sorting the couriers as once that is done, the deliveries are very fast. Between 5 deaf boys we have 60 [...]

What is success?

This is no way an emotional post, just some thoughts on what i perceive success is, and the challenges I face in explaining this to people around me (though most of them have given up on me, hence the differences). Life is becoming expensive – right. Our needs change, we are hungry for money, fame [...]

Deaf Girls …

I have been focusing on finding deaf boys lately for the deliveries and now I will be focusing on hiring deaf girls. There is also an urgent need to hire girls who are differently able. Because of their disability they are more shielded than boys. The challenge here is that their parents are very concerned [...]

Politically Correct or Not??

This is one post that I have been thinking to write for a while. As now I have been working with the deaf for a while, I have always been hassled the way the deaf are addressed in India, and probably other places. I have had huge arguments with close friends on this. They claim [...]

2 prized possessions’ for a social entrepreneur in Mumbai

In the October heat and being pressed for time- two things stand out for sure  which are my prized possessions. Its not an I-Pod (cant afford one), not a phone and for sure not an air conditioned car.

They are a pair of very comfortable shoes so that I can run and jump to catch the [...]