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T-evelopment
Challenges Entered:
The Project: SMS alert for community development activities
How: Open invitation for individuals, communities, clubs, companies to register at a particular number via SMS
Free cell will be handed to beggers, street side unemployed poor people in different city areas who will be representatives. They will be informed about any activity going on such as cleaning a particular area, lake, etc. which will be sponsosred by those who registered.
Benefit: This will benefit poor people from earning some money, at the same time supplies cheap labour to areas, while companines can carry out promotion by sponsoring such programs with cash and other promotional tools like T-Shirt, banners, etc
The community gets the benefit of a clean area or any other task they wish to carry out.
Other Info: This plan can actually lead to a national level clean city campaign twice a year or more which can eventually lead to various other small scale services added to the package, all for the sake of employing poor street side people, especially in countries like Bangladesh, Thailand, Pakistan, India, etc.
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