We Can MAKE CHANGE
By: Atta Ul Munnim
Tags: Startup, Helping Others, Change, Charity

Activities:

The activities we did in the last 15 days to complete the project that we started under the slogan of “We can MAKE CHANGE”. This project was for the betterment of the society which is known as “Khidmat-e-khalq”. During the past two weeks we encountered many problems and the leading was finding a deserving family. Here is the list of the activities we were tried and achieved in the past fortnight:

1. Finding a deserving family

2. Finalizing a deserving family

3. Funding

4. Suggesting and finalizing type of startup

5. Finding a place for startup

These were the main points of our agenda in the past few weeks. We really managed to complete the majority of the tasks and goals.

Finding a deserving family:

We have visited many families for the searching of a deserving one. We find 3–4 families for this project but in the end, we finalized only 2 to help more easily. We agreed on the quality to be provided rather than just finding as many families as we can and in the end fail just not finding enough funding. Here is the list of families:

1. Baba jee

2. Aunty (Divorced)

3. Uncle

4. Aunty (6-children and a father in law)

Finalizing a deserving family:

We finalized the Aunty at the end of the list. The Aunty very striving to find a halal source of income for his family.

The Aunty is living with her Father in law and six children. She has 5 daughter and a son. The eldest daughter do stitching work in her home and the remaining daughters are studying. The youngest is the son which is 11 year old son who studies in sixth class in a local school. It’s very difficult for her to carry out basic needs for her family.

She works in other people houses and perform house chores. She does things like cleaning, washing clothes and dishes. So through this she cannot fulfill the basic needs of the family. As the income of the women working in other people houses is small. So there are a lot of problems for her like her children education, food, clothes, medical and other problems that haven’t revealed yet. So we want her to be self dependent rather than depending on other people and face the problem herself strongly.

Funding:

The funding was a problem for us. As the family wasn’t decided in these days, we didn’t get much funding. Our team leader gets most of the funding and at the end of the 15 days we were able to get 25000 PKR arranged. Following are the ways through which we get the maximum funding or at least we tried through to get some through that channel:

1. Family

2. Friends

3. Social Media

4. Relatives

5. Internship Fellows

Suggesting and finalizing type of startup:

We wanted to have a secure and a safe startup for the family. So, Aunty can easily manage and provide maximum time to their families and business as well.

For the widowed, with the consent of the family we decided to get her sewing machines. Where she can help herself to develop a handsome amount of money and help to do so. She wanted to open her small stitching school where she can easily manage sewing clothes and a small boutique where she will get orders from the market like uniform and couture and starting a small beauty salon in her house which needs 6*5 feet mirror, a chair, makeup, wooden shelf and a cabin.

Self-Analysis:

All the goals that we planned in the 2-week time was easily managed and performed. All the goals that we decided in the first 2 weeks are as follows:

· Finding family

· Funding

· Finding suitable startup

· Social Media campaign

· Blog posts

All the tasks were finally completed. The funding that we thought we will get isn’t enough but it is enough for starting the initial process of setting up a business. Now our main focus will be on funding so that we can get as much funding as we can to help the people. We think that now we can easily help them with the amount of money we have collected. In this goal our team was up to the mark and we think are able to complete this work on time.

The startups were easy and doesn’t require any huge amount to get the business going. The business is suitable for the family and will be easily managed.

The main problem we faced that most of the people in our team members doesn’t belong to the same city. They have different commitments and work going on in their life but our team leader managed it beautifully. She got the majority of the funding and she is the main reason our team is sticking together. We believe that we can help these families that are a total of approximately 8 people to manage their business. Help them and change the lives of these 7–8 people.