A reporter for over 25 years, Shishir Joshi relocated far from the stress of the newsroom to make Mumbai, a city that is his home, a much better location to live. His objective to discover services for a variety of troubles that torment India’s monetary funding caused the facility of Project Mumbai in 2018.
Amol Gupte, filmmaker, star and painter|
“Mumbai is a dynamic, but challenging city—there are challenges of travel, environment, hygiene, inclusivity and more. But people are always wondering what they can do and how to be part of the solution. And we at Project Mumbai felt we can be a catalyst of that change,” describes Shishir Joshi, founder and president ofProject Mumbai
Project Mumbai
As a design of public-private-people collaboration, the organisation functions upside down with people, we function leading down with the federal government producing range. They collaborate with similar organisations, and with each other encourage people to bring modification. “So Project Mumbai was all about seeing the city become a better place to live, work, and play with citizens as champions and Project Mumbai as a catalyst,” shares the Andheri homeowner.
Project Mumbai
Clean water, psychological wellness, offering, providing healthy dishes, access and inclusivity, sustainability, coastline cleansing are a few of the lots of tasks that they have actually been working with. “We are the country’s largest plastic and e-waste recycling initiative, which is citizen-led, where behaviour change becomes our focus. The aim is that no waste should go to the landfill,” he shares.
Project Mumbai
Mental wellness, which started obtaining seminar after the pandemic, has actually given that come to be a significant emphasis for the organisation. “It became a conversation and we felt that this is a conversation that we need to go deeper into. One community which is often ignored are the adolescents, so we focus on adolescent mental health a lot, along with other groups. We have possibly the largest adolescent mental health curriculum-based programme in municipal schools and a helpline which reaches out to them,” describes the 55-year-old.
Project Mumbai
Mumbai might be the monetary funding of the nation, however a lot of this city is not obtainable to individuals with handicaps. So Project Mumbai released Samavesh, a program on inclusivity and access and embraced a mobility device basketball group that came to be a display. “We are the knowledge partners to the BMC to make Mumbai an accessible city, we are creating awareness and also making ramps across the city. Through the wheelchair basketball initiative, we also aim to highlight that there are people with challenges who have overcome them — and encourage greater compassion,” he shares.
Since its creation, over 1.7 crore lives have actually profited as a result of Project Mumbai’s job. Filmmaker, star and painter Amol Gupte, that is excited by Joshi’s job, shares, “While any city changes by itself and with passage of time experiences change, what Shishir and his team are doing is changing mindsets. They have inspired millions. There will always be a bunch of people who feel dejected or lose hope. Even among such groups, Shishir and Project Mumbai are injecting a sense of hope for a city which is filled with kindness. This is a story worth being told.”
Ashish Chauhan, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, The National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) discussing Project Mumbai’s job, shares, “Project Mumbai has tapped so eloquently into the goodness that each Mumbaikar possesses. Effortlessly, they have built a hyper local model of volunteerism, which not just brings change across various areas but also inculcates within each one of us a sense of ownership towards our urban environment but a strong feeling of hope that together we can. Their tag line, Mumbai Ke Liye Kuchh Bhi Karega (Anything for Mumbai) or Kuchh Pal Apney Sheher Ke Liye (a bit of time for your city) can only lead them faster to their vision of making Mumbai the Kindness Capital of India, which even I believe in. Project Mumbai has impacted over 1.7 crore lives in six years–that’s about 8 thousand plus lives every day. That in itself is evidence of their impact on Mumbai and Mumbaikars.”
