One experience, many tasks.

- Nowadays-Preeti Shah

- Minal's business has an income of Rs 5 lakh, but he is especially happy that with each cookie he loses five grams of carbon. The only hurdle in this eco-friendly start-up is the monsoon

Minal Kabra is a dentist living in Jalna, Maharashtra. While treating children's teeth at the time when Minal was studying medicine and after becoming a doctor, she found that children's teeth were badly damaged at an early age because they did not clean their teeth properly after eating chocolate or any kind of sweets. This problem is more prevalent in rural areas than in urban areas. Their mothers who bring children with dental problems, Dr. She talked to Minal about her financial problems and unemployment. All of this made him think of two things. One is to think of a good alternative for children instead of chocolate or a sugary dish and the other is to try to make a living for rural women.

There is a saying that a pebble killed two birds. In exactly the same way, his intense desire took shape with the start-up he started in December 2016. When Minal got married and came to his father-in-law, he saw that his mother-in-law had been using a solar cooker for cooking since 12. He thought that if the sun gets about three hundred days in the net, it should be used. Minal's husband Vivek studied at IIT. He made a solar oven in 2015 by making some changes in the solar cooker. Instead of turning the solar cooker a few times in the direction of the sun, he installed a reflector, which concentrates the sun's rays and maintains a temperature of about 40 to 50 degrees Celsius. It also made glass tubes and cooking trays. Anne's thermal storage battery has to be kept in the sun for thirty minutes. Dr. Minal Kabra has been cooking different dishes in this oven since 2013. He made sugar-free vegan cookies and started a start-up called Kivu. Kivu named it 'Kivu' after a fusion of Japanese 'Ki' and French 'Wu'. Which means - 'Channelizing Your Inner Energy for Greater Good'.

He first hired two women from a nearby village and gave them both solar ovens. Taught her to make cookies. The capacity of this solar oven is to make thirty kilos of cookies per day. Today he makes cookies from the ingredients of ryegrass, sorghum, copra, wheat, oats, flaxseed, sargavo, ginger, lemon and uses jaggery in them. He buys all these materials directly from farmers. At present, its best-selling cookies are chocolate-coconut, oat-chocolate, rye-cocoa, cinnamon-wheat, ginger-lemon-sorghum. Dr. Minal Kabra does not want to keep women there as employees, but wants them to run their business independently by teaching them these necessary skills. For that he helps her buy equipment and sells her cookies in the market. Today its cookies are sold under the name Kivu-Kingdom of Good Food. It also makes vegan and gluten free cookies. Today, Bonter stores in seventeen cities not only sell, but also sell online.

Women who work with Minal Kabra today say that Minal Kabra taught them to do business by stepping out of the four walls of the house. It has made a huge difference in her life. Many women today earn about four hundred rupees a day. Their children are studying in a good school. Today Dr. Minal Kabra's business has an income of Rs 3 lakh, but he is especially happy that with each cookie he loses five grams of carbon. The only hurdle in this eco-friendly start-up is the monsoon. Cookies cannot be produced in a cloudy environment, but he hopes that this problem will be solved. 6 year old Dr. Minal Kabra wants more and more women to join. It is his dream to have one hundred such clusters operating across the country in the future.

Flow of friendship flows!

Mother Teresa lovingly told him, 'There is no need to be ashamed or disappointed. What if there is no money? You have the spirit to help, that's all that matters. ' And this thing engraved on Ravin's heart

Raised amidst extreme poverty and hardship, Ravin Arora now owns a restaurant and a marketplace in the United States. During the Partition of India, Ravin's family reached Kolkata unscathed amidst the onslaught of violence and found refuge in a refugee camp. It was in this camp that Ravin was born. At that time, his father was working as a servant in someone's house to support the family. The mother would add water to the milk and give it to the children so that the children would be satisfied with drinking milk and sew the children's clothes from her own and father's worn or torn clothes. Despite such difficult circumstances, Ravin's parents encouraged his children to study hard.

When Ravin Arora was eight or ten years old, Mother Teresa came to his school one day and asked the children, 'How many of you can help children who are weaker than you?' Many children gave something out of what they had in their pockets. Ravin knew he had nothing, yet he reached into his pocket and pulled out his empty hand with shame and embarrassment. Seeing the expression on her face, Mother Teresa lovingly told her, 'There is no need to be ashamed or disappointed. What if there is no money? You have the spirit to help, that's all that matters. ' And this thing engraved on Ravin's heart.

Ravin Arora, who has been living as a refugee for seventeen years, did his M.Com from St. Xavier's College, Kolkata. Obtained CA degree in 191. For eight years he worked for the Missionaries of Charity. Mother Teresa became M's mentor. When I happened to meet Tenzing Norgay, who climbed Everest for the first time at the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute in Darjeeling, he explained to Ravin, 'Keep the goal high and work hard. You can do what I can. ' With such encouragement, he got his Ph.D. Went to America to do, but going there seemed to have a brighter future in the restaurant business. E. Q. When his daughter was admitted to Arizona State University in 2006, he moved to Phoenix with his wife, Clara. Within a few months he was twenty km from there. Bought a house in far away Tampa.

In such an area, he started 'Dhaba India Plaza' in 2006. It is very hot in Arizona so he started giving free cold water bottles to the people five days a week from noon to evening. Arranged with it so that people could relax for a while. One day Ravin Arora saw a man taking something out of the trash and eating it. Here he put up a board, 'Hot food will be available in India Plaza.' 'Feed people with respect, not with kindness,' they say. The experience and etiquette gained while working with Mother Teresa and working for Tibetan and Bangladeshi refugees came in handy here.

India Plaza grew in popularity in Tampa. People of Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi origin as well as locals started coming to his doorstep. There he brought Indian culture to life. Most of the shops in India Plaza are owned by traveling Indians. They have an Indian restaurant. Indian spices are available in their stores. Mehndi is available in beauty salons. Gift articles such as a replica of the Taj Mahal are also available.

Ravin Arora helps pay the fees of the students working in his dhaba, he charges very little rent from the shopkeeper. Encourages others to help those in distress. Ravin Arora transformed an area known for crime and criminality. India Plaza has not had a single police presence in the last eighteen years. The needy, homeless people in this area of ​​Tampa know that India Plaza is a place to eat and drink. You will also get to stay for a while. Because there is a fountain of friendship, compassion and compassion flowing among the people here.