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= HUMANS OF BOMBAY    =

INTRODUCTION
Humans of Bombay is one of the India’s largest community organization operating from its office in Mumbai, Maharashtra. It initially started as a photography project in 2010 but soon expanded its operations with capturing stories and using the same to connect to the people through social media as a means of communication. It is a group of members working together who retell the stories of people of Bombay they interact with to inspire and motivate people all around the world with the stories of success and failure, hope and inspiration, dreams and heartbreaks. The organization firmly believes in the power of humanity and has crossed over 1.2 million people from all the corners of the world who believe in this power of humanity. It operates on the thought that all the people in the world have got their own stories to share and each of these stories are relatable, unique are motivational in its own way.

HISTORY
Humans of Bombay when started in 2010 was barely an organization only initiated by this young female Karishma Mehta who was inclined in capturing the moments of people residing in Bombay in photographs but later ended up having an idea of capturing their stories too in a nutshell. As soon as HOB initiated this idea, it soon made an instagram handle of its own to post the same on its account to motivate lacs and crores of people and inspire them to do better by getting motivation from such stories related to success, failure, heartbreaks, self love, acceptance etc. HOB soon expanded its operations from merely motivating people to adopting the path of humanity by initiating fundraising activities such as raising funds for cancer patients, education of slum children, young females etc. and raising its voice against social stigmas and giving humanity a superior priority over the other things.

FIRST HUMAN AT HUMANS OF BOMBAY
It was just mid 20s for this young graduate Karishma Mehta when she was sitting on this one fine day inspired by Humans of New york and decided to come up with something of her own and bring the stories of people of Bombay to inspire the world. So it all started with a kick start interview of a lady who was happy to be photographed and share the story of her life at the same time putting them in a 40 minutes long conversation. Mehta was thrilled by this lady’s experience which motivated her further to bring to light further more stories to the people in the world. She brings stories of people from all the segments of the society to the forefront including from the richest people living in poshest areas to people coming from dark and slum areas. She recently published her book ‘Humans of Bombay’ in 2017 talking about the same.

GOALS
Humans of Bombay has stated it goal of extending the feeling of humanity and generating a feeling of unity by lending a helping hand to the one in need. It aims at making people understand what sharing joy and sorrows means by being with someone in need and in times of happiness through sharing monetary funds, love, care, affection.

PROJECTS AND INITIATIVES
With the growing popularity of Humans of Bombay and its inspiring stories and supportive users, HOB has undertaken many fundraising projects and successfully initiated them.

Me too movement:
Humans of Bombay undertook various steps to promote the me too movement and wrote varied stories talking in favor of this argument. Me too movement by HOB gave a public platform to all the people in the world who underwent sexual harassment to say it loud on this platform and just release themselves with the dark experiences they’ve been holding and keeping it for years.

Fundraisers:
As Humans of Bombay strongly believes in the power of humanity, it has undertaken various fundraiser initiatives. They’ve tried to raise money for people who are badly in need for money for completing their education or facing adverse conditions and situation where their survival has become difficult owing to lack of money for treatments.

Mental health warriors:
Mental health is one of the recent issues discussed at HOB. According to WHO’s research and HOB, it has been discovered that one in every five Indians suffers from depression once in lifetime which makes up to 200 million people. And so to fight these, HOB has undertaken mental health warriors into account who share their stories through the medium of HOB and inspire the people to survive the same.

FINANCES
Humans of Bombay secures its financial requirements through collaborations with campaigns initiated by big firms and investors. It collaborated with these firms to promote humanity associated events to promote blood donation, fundraising activities, and communicates the idea of the same through its inspirational stories it posts on social media which further satisfies the stake of firms as well as Humans of Bombay of motivating people through its stories.

TEAM
Karishma Mehta, CEO and Founder

Karishma Mehta is the official first human at Humans of Bombay who is the founder and CEO of this organization. She was the first person who initiated this idea inspired from Humans of New york and further set it up into a community organization.

Chintan Bhagat, Managing director

Chintan Bhagat is the managing director at Humans of Bombay who manages all the operations and gets executed the same.

Devanshi Zaveri, COO

Devanshi Zaveri is the Chief Operating Officer at Humans of Bombay. She says that she’s a girl who’s lived a thousand lives, and not just between the pages of books.

Aarohi Devasthale, Graphics for Content and CSR

Aarohi Devasthale is the head of controlling the graphics for content section and also undertakes the corporate social responsibility. She says that she is a fashion design graduate from NIFT and prefers listening to Billie Eilish songs.

Prashant Khamkar, Staff member

Prashant Khamkar says that he is the one who holds the office together; makes people a mean cups of coffee and surprises them with his killer dance movies.

Natasha Kothari, Content and PR

Natasha Kothari, who manages content and public relations at Humans of Bombay, says that she has got love for humanities and is working with Humans of Bombay for quiet a good time now.

Apurva Vurity, CSR

Apurva Vurity is the corporate social responsibility manager at Humans of Bombay who is also a strong feminist. She says that she completed her Masters in TISS and working with NGOs and International Organizations like UN India, she realized that she enjoyed learning about people, structures and why the society functions in the manner that it does. She hopes to make the world a better place!

Jheel Bastia, CSR

With over 5 years of work experience as a sustainability and environmental management professional, she says that she has worked on rural and urban developmental projects with corporates, foundations and International Organizations. Also she says that she is an Alumna of Teri University, New Delhi and United Nations University- Japan, and her core expertise are strategic planning and stakeholders engagement for effective implementation of the Programme.

Tanishka Roy, CSR

With a 5-year experience in the development sector, she says that she has developed into a full time learner. She is also one of the members managing the corporate social responsibility at Humans of Bombay.

Vincy Abraham, CSR

She says that she is a strategist with a heart for social justice and equality for poor communities. She was one of the youngest speakers at the United Nations and has continued to speak on development issues at international conferences. She says that she has a Masters in Political Science with a focus on International Development.

Niranjan Dandekar, Photography

Niranjan Dandekar is a Mumbai based photographer. For him, every human being is a piece of art. He says that he likes capturing that moment, that one expression of a person and then traveling back into a time, which might otherwise have been forgotten.

Vidhi Sheth, Content and Legal

She says that she has a Law degree and a Master’s degree in English Literature, but she’s done a little bit of everything from giving tours to managing accounts to working as a paralegal to content editing.

Rhiya Shirwaiker, Content

She says that she lives in a world of words, emotions and absolute detachment. It’s a duality she’s still trying to figure out. She’s one of the content editor and writer at Humans of Bombay.

CONTROVERSIES
Humans of Bombay was recently criticized for one of its article where Mehta interviewed the prime minister of our country Shri Narendra Modi and the article was considered to be driven with the motive of publicity and political gains but was also showered with the best of motivation it gave to people around the world by such a story of a tea seller to prime minister.