A team consisting of
three RKKians, Lakshita Singh Ranawat, Amishi Shukla and Hemangini Bhati with their Teacher Incharge Mr Girish Vyas, took part in the First Steps Symposium on Social Enterprise hosted by the
First Steps School of Arts & Sciences, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan on
29th & 30th January 2022. The theme of the event revolved around bringing change in our world through setting up social enterprises, solely based from the ideas and drive of the students participating. The two-day event brought about many revealations in how each one of us view present day problems that seem not to have any solutions. It was also highlighted that how much of a difference, youth can potentially make even while sitting in front of screens. The Keynote Speaker, Ms Hira Warjahat, planned an interactive session with all the budding entrepreneurs. SET was a topic that was discussed about and dissected what it meant. Sustainability, Entrepreneurship and Technology have the potential of changing the world and the society. Ecstatic to find out that people do not have to leave behind everything to make a noticeable change in the environment for the better, delegates were separated into barazza groups. Overflowing with ideas, there were fiery discussions with some ice breaking questions, that brought a smile on the faces of the students.
On the second day, each school had to present a business model that would help a cause. There were phenomenal ideas coming from all the schools. Some of the exceptional ideas were the Organic Spa, the manufacturing of Plastic Bricks, Milk Waste Management and many more. RKK team put forward a social enterprise which promoted Urban Gardens, where we would use the help of community service and set up an establishment in urban areas that would offer organic produce, strictly in-house grown. The cause, RKK’s representatives wished to solve, was one that hit close to home for them, as they have seen innumerous times how industries dump water after infusing with toxic chemicals and on the other hand the agricultural lands run dry in drought in Rajasthan. It was overall a wonderful event that brought to limelight many sustainable projects for the betterment of the human beings and environment on earth.
