Branding

Hi everyone,
Please accept my apologies for not writing and not being in touch. Things have been crazy and that would be an understatement. We have grown tremendously over the past six months and working through the challenges. This blog entry is about one of the key challenges that we are facing – branding and perception. [...]

We are Growing

We have grown to a bigger team! We are now 19 and growing very rapidly. I remember how I started in Nov with one deaf boy and now the team has grown. We have been getting some more attention from corporates after everyone has read the article, which was great. People need to have faith [...]

I see this depressing trend..

I haven’t posted for a while as I have been extremely busy and caught with multiple things. This piece was written in http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/ and i can imagine this happening more often than not. We are looking for perfection in what ever we do resulting in no acceptance for things which are different or even people [...]

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 [...]

Human Nature!!

Human nature is such that we take everything for granted. The bell rings, we open the door and ask ” what do you want”. Have we ever thought that the person who has come may not be able to talk or hear. This also stems from the fact that deafness is a disability that cannot [...]

more work!and self-confidence

After successfully delivering 60 + envelopes we have to execute another order of 150 Christmas cards. The deaf boys are getting confident and are learning very quickly the different  areas of Mumbai. I am in the process of developing a model where by they will be given specific areas for delivery which reduces our time [...]

new order

I am happy that tomorrow we are executing an order for www.dasra.org. They liked our work and have given us a repeat order. However, tomorrow the challenge is more deliveries which is more spread out across mumbai. As we have hired some more deaf boys, this will be another good opportunity to train the boys. [...]

Data on Deaf

I am presently looking for data on deaf in India. In the process of downloading some data from census and NSSO. I have read the report[1] in detail. And not having a clear definition on how to define disability the numbers vary from 20 million to as high as 80 million. This number is huge. [...]

T- shirts in the house

I am writing after a long time, apologies to my readers. Lately, things have been tense here in Mumbai and I just did not feel like writing.
This post is about our t-shirts, and i am really happy the way they have been made. The colour combination is slightly different than the logo that you see [...]

Indian Sign Language (ISL) Decoded

Very few people know about the sign language and lack of awareness is the reason for that. This post talks about the Indian Sign Language (ISL). The term Indian in this case implies that this is the “sign language of India.” Yes you heard me right; there are different sign languages, just like there are [...]