Developed
Nation Network Trust, our NGO was formed in year 2009 but our
thinking that each nation must be a developed nation was much
before that.
Nations should be properous but more importantly
each nation should be a developed nation. So in 2009, we formed
our NGO with the name Developed Nation Network Trust.
It has 80 G and FCRA. So it can accept funds from any country
for development, nature and most importantly Climate change in
India.
Our founder
used to question himself that is it right to live, eat & sleep
in a house, when you see people living on the streets, people
begging on the streets and people eating on the streets (Not the
people who have lot of money, specially the school / college going
youth who love to eat on the street).
He thought then why did he did engineering ? There are millions
of engineers who are far more talented than him. But again he
realised that even the talented engineers do the same type of
job throughout their life. Yes, their salary increases, they marry,
have children, live happily ... and like everybody they expire
and leave this world.
So if the end is expiry, then why not do something for society
and get millions of dollars of satisfaction than money.
But he was too small and did not dare to do what he wanted.
Then he did
MBA in marketing.
But again poverty of others (Not mental poverty but economic poverty)
was a big question.
He thought he cant take care of issues in the world but he can
work at least in his hometown Thane.
So in 1997, left job and started working on accident related activities.
But within 15 days, he realised that he cant do the alone. So
he went back to the same job.
He thought
this is just thinking and will vanish sooner or later.
But once he
got some money, again the old thinking of sharing challenges and
issues cropped up.
Now he thinks that he tried to cut the upper part of the tree
but did not cut the roots.
In 1999, he started with a site on Thane district of India, then
a portal for NGOs in India.
In 2001, he started a portal for International NGOs which shared
NGOs in all the countries (No islands, territories but only countries).
It was launched at the US Embassy house on 1.12.2001. But again,
he realised that he has not enough money to promote it.
But after
28.08.2013 he realised the fact that
Thane is just a district of India ; India is only one of the 193
UN member countries; countries are a small part of this world;
this world is a small part of this large universe. So now we cover
challenges and solutions in terms of programmes of individuals
& institutions across the world on issues & subissues.
Even now,
when our founder sees people staying on streets in Thane, he wonders
why we live in a house when we see so many people living (literally
living) on the streets. But now he knows that each one is born
differently. Some are born to the super rich, some to rich, some
to economically good or okay parents, some are born to poor, some
are born to people below the poverty line parents. Our founder
was born to parents who were not financially rich, but far simple
and far richer in their thinking. His mother indirectly taught
him Value education (Not financial values but values of life),
his father indirectly taught him how to be simple, how not to
cry just because you cant eat all the food (he had ulcer far more
than 40 years and then diabetes for last year or so), how to help
people not just with your own funds but asking others to fund
.....
Infact, our
founder thought that his second son Aum, should focus on sharing
not just social issues that people face across the world but individuals
& institutions addressing these challenges through programmes.
So when he was in 8th standard, he took him to Austria where he
met Prof Muhammad Yunus or next year in South Korea. When our
founder realised that Aum was keen on studying medicine, our founder
told him that there are millions of doctors across the world and
he will be just one of them. But after 28.8.2013, our founder
realised the value of medical profession is far higher than what
one thinks.
Another human
fact is that no one should even try to decide what her / his son
/ daughter should do (Yes, parents can guide them and more than
parents, teachers spend more time with children - they call them
as students). Just remember that while parents do their work for
sustainability or for joy, and if both parents are working, then
the teachers spend more time of the day with students.
He also realised
that each citizen can decide her / his future plan. So our founder
did not say anything to the decision his son Aum took on studying
medicine but he will be happy if even after doing graduation or
post graduation in medicine, Aum starts investing about 1 hour
a day promoting what individuals & institutions across the
world are doing for social & health issues, financially support
some programmes or do campaigns to promote good programmes across
the world. These programmes can be replicated or scaled up by
institutions across the world. Again, this is his wish because
he knows how difficult this simple wish is.
And this is
not for any economical reason but it will give great satisfaction
if we can play a small part of integration in universal development.
We all know that each citizen will leave this world one day, and
the simple fact that no one takes any money or hut or flat or
palace with her / him when one she / he leaves this earth. We
dont know why most of us fear death, when we all know that it
is a simple & clear word and is the final destination of all
of us.
But we still
see many challenges in Thane. Even if a good person leaves this
world and makes & registeres a WILL (with doctors signature
that the person is in good mental condition) and the WILL is opened
after he is physically no more in this world, his son challenges
that the WILL was done at old age.... How many of us make a WILL
when one is 18 years old or 20 years old or 30 years old or 40
years of age ... and we are not saying a WILL but a registered
WILL.
We feel so
bad to waste of court's time (and that is when realised that the
court has many pending cases) and damaging India's image. But
we cant help. (Again, let it be clear that we are not naming anyone
here so far because we dont want to but if need be, then we can
share the names)
We know the
real reason but always have one simple question that why people
challenge the registered WILL and
1) what is government doing 2) why government waste's their time
rather than development of the country.
On 06.03.2016
when founder saw that medical books for Aum with a CD, we are
thinking that we should take videos of doctors from Thane on health
issues and put it online so that all can see it online without
any cost. Issues like fever, cough, cold, blood pressure, diabetes,
cancer, HIV / AIDS, carcinogenic issues, neurology issues, pregnancy
issues, old age issues...
Now we treat
Thane district as a global example and know that issues are not
just with poor but middle class as well as financially rich class..
We must use
the marketing management techniques so that we can at least reduce
the number of people living on the streets, some even begging.
Our founder now thinks that education in school / college is one
thing, but we must learn from our daily life. The recent events
made him a student of psychology (we know many people go to psychologists
but the psychology specialists do not tell who came as a patient
because their job is different than a doctor who does surgery.
Infact, there is no physical body called as mind ... its all one's
thinking. So their science is based on human emotions). He wonders
then that why a psychologist has to be a medical doctor. Infact
parents are much better psychologists. Then there are your teachers
or religious leaders or even political leaders who tell you not
to worry about loosing because win or loose is not in anybody's
hands ... its people who vote politicians ..)
After seeing
the situation in India and in 10 different countries, now he thinks
that we must take action or at least promote those who take action.
Responsibility is not just a word. Everything we do everytime
must be a responsible behaviour and responsible process.
Having seen how individuals are myopic in their thinking and just
think of their house, neighbourhood, religion, caste, colour,
nation ... we thought that it will take generations to change
the mindset of all. But someone must start.
When we started Developed Nation Network Trust, we thought that
nations (countries) must be developed.
UN thought of MDGs (2015), now want sustainable development (2030)
and we thought universal development by 2050.
But now we are clearer that even if the present challenges of
issues are taken care of by 2050, new issues or new subissues
will appear anytime. So we have removed 2050 and now our vision
is Universal development. e.g. girl child education might get
over by 2030 or 2050 but then we will have value education as
a key issue & it is far larger than just education.
We formed
Developed Nation Network Trust in year 2009, but now are realising
that many citizens of this world equate development & economic
prosperity. The idea of each nation, a developed nation was quite
earlier but legally it was put on paper only when we registered
the thought.
People dont
realise that development & economic prosperity are different
issues when one progresses as an individual or as a nation. And
one of the after effects of economic prosperity is greed. Actually
this type of mental thinking is a disease and this unknown disease
is across the world. But no one can come forward to medical advice
(forget medical treatment) for this disease.
We will start
Developed Nation Network Trust activities in 2022 and want to
ensure that each NGO / NPO is sustinable and makes / sells products
to earn income, so that if there is no funding for some time,
the NGO does not collapse because of lack of funds. Of course,
the NGO / NPO must get regular funding but we are saying that
if the funding stops for a year or two, the services of the NGO
/ NPO should not stop. |