Journey
Pranav Prakash Patil (Founder), then a first year student from IEIBS Akademia, was supposed to take up a society-benefiting project as part of his training at the institution. Always a social work enthusiast Pranav was not able to think of any particular way as such and thought of consulting his Guru & Mentor Mrs. Aparna Unhale. She further suggested collecting old newspapers, usually referred as ‘Raddi’ (paper scrap), and use the proceeds from the same for social work.
Pranav then gathered a few of his like-minded friends, namely Rahul Torane, Siddhesh Kumbhar, Suyesh Shinde & Paraj Deshmukh to take this project ahead. Eventually, these friends became Co-founders and all together founded ‘RADDI – Paper Scrap’ on 5th September, 2016; which further left a mark on the educational life of hundreds of underprivileged children.
They started this project by collecting paper scrap from their own houses & neighbours. With a very less amount acquired from the same they provided that hygienic lunch for a day to the needy at Thane station. It was during that activity they realized that this one activity is not enough. Hence, they decided to expand this project & take it forward & reach out to the society at large. They started contacting more households & offices to generate more scrap donations which were further going to be used for a noble cause.
The group’s “One To Many – A Social Service Journey” has become a hope to such people of the society who are deprived from the basic necessities; those in the present-days are beyond just food, clothing and shelter. Education is one such necessity and has played a significant role in the survival and evolution of the human race. Breaking the reputation of today’s youth in the minds of the masses, 5 young social service enthusiasts who started from distributing food packets to needy, are now fulfilling the needs of taking education for a number of children, thus providing them with an opportunity to be a part of the society that they were once deprived of.
What began as a college activity has today become a youth-powered change-driven social community that has 30 + active members, 260 + active raddi and scrap donors and plenty of supporters. RADDI – Paper Scrap was incorporated on 17th January, 2019, as The Paper Revolution Foundation.
