Heal the World
The name probably will take you back to the 80’s thinking about the popular song sung by none other than the King of Pop, Michael Jackson. We will definitely get to know by the end of the story the reason behind naming it in the same line of the famous song, which talks about the change we can do as a Human Being in the society. Therefore, we follow the same wherein we move out of our Office every 3 months and give something back to the Society in the form of “Our Time to the Universe”.
Just to give a short background of the Company. We are a Travel company, which was formed in Arizona, US 23 years back. We in India formed the entity in 2018, April. We formed our Company on the basis of one strong belief, Charity begins at home. Let us go back to 2019. On 2nd of January, we started our new year by visiting Prem Sadan a Girls orphanage in Madh Island Mumbai. It is an institution where girls’ stays from the age of 4 to 18 and some of them are abused while most of them does not even know the names of their parents. We already called the institution to ask for their needs but most importantly was to spend Quality time with them and motivating them which was important. The success was when I heard one of the girl from the institution secured 76% in SSC, which gives us enormous priceless happiness. Exactly after 3 months, we completed our 1st Anniversary in April 2019. Most of us would think of celebrating in Office in the form of Cake cutting, social celebrations, etc however, we did it differently. We went to the Local Guardian, Mr Aslam Sheikh, Local Cooperator, Malad Police to get an approval to go and do an activity at Aksa Beach in Malad, Mumbai. This time we wanted to do something for our Marine Life. We not only cleaned the entire Beach wherein we carried tons of garbage from there but also made it a mandate that every Sunday the Beach will be closed for 2 hours during the day time and the local Municipality will clean the Beach which will help our Marine life to breathe and lead a Healthy life.
The Story does not ends there….. We continued our legacy and during the festive seasons in India, we visited an Old age Home named Vimaltai Oldage home in Kandivali. It was really an emotional moment and probably also looking at our future wherein our children would also behave in the same way. Nevertheless, we spent that valuable time with them (other than getting things for them which was enough for the next 6 months) wherein we sang, danced and even we played hide and seek in the 2 floor small building with the entire crowd. We always know that as we grow older, we turn into a kid once again and who would not love of being engaged in such activities… Priceless to see them happy and
smiling while we left the building. We realized that we did not touch based with all the elements of Living Beings hence we went towards the Green just before Covid came to India in the month of February 2020. We happened to visit the Garden named as Hiltop Garden, which is situated in Malad, besides Inorbit mall. For the first time Mayawaki (The concept of growing dense plantation so that in times of flood or any natural disaster, one plant can save the other… Even plant talks and has emotions) concept was introduced in Mumbai thereby catering towards the Biodiversity of nature. We planted hundreds of local plants like Neem, Jamoon because of which we saw 32 different types of butterflies and local birds coming to the garden to have their personal time. Everyone wants to come back home, right? Hence, the name of the story is “Heal the World” and if you remember the first 2 lines of the famous
song…. “Make it a Better place, for you and for me and the entire Human race”…..
Thank You.
Kaustav Mitra