Empowering Girls in India

despite its Rich culture and incredible [Music] beauty over 40 million children in India live like this and to make things worse millions of them grew up without having any kind of family every country struggles with poverty but unfortunately India has the highest population of Orphans in the world meaning that many of them face a abuse malnutrition early marriage and unplanned pregnancy and because of all the obstacles that these children face completing their education is unfortunately a lower priority and after receiving multiple comments from you guys asking us to come visit India we decided to and

so much more happened than we had expected we collaborated with one of the biggest stars in Bollywood Darren became a fashion designer and we discovered multiple people making a massive difference in their communities so we decided not only to do one project in India but two and when we arrived in New Delhi Darren met with Dr Modi the founder of the first organization when I look back I remember as a child I was all of 8 years old and I was visiting a very crowded place with my parents and suddenly I found myself alone in

that crowd and I was yelling out from my parents and I was not able to see them finally the police restored me back to my my parents but that made me realize how children without parental care would feel I started visiting different children's homes in India and that's where one of the children I still remember held on to my clothes and said please take me home this was the start of the udang gar home program where orphaned and abandoned children are assigned lifelong Mentor parents a group of extremely dedicated carers that give younger kids a

loving family environment so they can flourish like any other child Society but Udan care didn't stop there in 2002 Dr Modi started the Udan Shalini fellowship program where mentors support girls from underprivileged backgrounds and grow them into empowered Independent Women that will build a more Equitable Society Dr Modi then introduced us to deepok a mentor parent to 40 girls in one of the Udan care homes in 2009 I joined Udan care as a part-time volunteer and then me and my wife we both enrolled with Udan care and started visiting the Children's Home and as I

had already decided when I was 36 that at 52 53 I will totally give up the active corporate life and turn my time energy wealth whatever little I have towards giving back to community despite the incredible work that this organization does they still struggle financially deac showed me around the home this morning and I got to see all of the efforts and all of the programs that they are putting into developing the skill sets for for these girls to go out in prospering life one of these girls is Shah I was born in muradabad it's

a city in utar Pradesh I came to D when I was 4 years old and I was with my four sisters I'm the youngest if I wasn't part of a dare I would be probably living in poverty uneducated I think I wouldn't have a life I wouldn't have dreams I wouldn't really aspire to you know change the world or create some kind of impact over a period of time shal completed her class 12th and those 3 4 years I used to discuss a lot of things with the girls about their future career how they want

to do what they want to do when I was in 12th grade I was really struggling with making the decision what I want to do in the future I'm a very ambitious person and I really want to do something for people because I've got some so much from the society that I live in so raising awareness about things through my art said that she would like to be a fashion designer if you have to be a fashion designer you should go for the best Institute at least in India so after working extremely hard on her

studies she tall was able to get into the top fashion School in India the National Institute of fashion technology in Mumbai I went to Mumbai dropped her to the college at that time I kind of felt like this is something different somebody just being so passionate about your dreams like more than I am passionate for my own dreams it was a similar feeling going traveling with her the same way I had gone to drop my son when he did his MBA from one of the institutes in India it is just you know something that you

don't expect from someone who is not your parent but they do it regardless so you start feeling a sense of emotional connection to them that is more deeper than just a mental she wrote me a letter saying I respect you a lot I love you a lot I don't call you dad I call you Uncle but the respect I have is more than a dad and when in 202 when she calls up and asks this question so at that time and I did ask him like can I call you papa I couldn't just believe my

ears to be honest my heart was filled with joy happiness and something possibly I was contemplating or dreaming it was amazing you can say one of the most I would say happiest moments of my life and in September this year she will be going to the Kingston School of Arts in London to do her Masters in fashion before eventually venturing into her own brand and if I become rich by any chance then of course I will really try to make a difference in kids life like I want to adopt kids myself because I think there's

so much you can do for children and for children we were so blown away by the impact that deep poac is having on all these girls that we wanted to do something special for them so Dan reached out to his long-term friend jacn Fernandez who if you didn't know is an iconic Bollywood star with a massive following today I came into Delhi to meet the Delhi NOA Udan CARE program and the girls over there it's just such a lovely lovely organization so lovely to see that they've been able to achieve so much Jacqueline absolutely made

these girls day but there was one more person to surprise sheah was sitting in a room far away from the hall waiting to continue her interview and she had no idea that jacine was here so Dan and jacine prepped on how they to surprise her I'm going to run in be behind the camera and sitation then you come in and surprise her we're about to go in to surprise she right now this is such an awesome moment I'm so excited to be part of this have you ever designed a dress for a celebrity before no

no no because I just came out of college so not exactly hi hi hello it's a pleasure to meet she hi sheah a girl who defied All Odds to be where she is was going to design a dress for Bollywood star Jacqueline Fernandez on meeting her I was just like taken back by how confident she was as a young lady she's extremely talented I think that Udan care has done such a wonderful job with these girls you know in the way they've raised them the dress would still take 3 months to make so after jacine

left left Darren Felt super inspired to do something for Dan ever since I met Darren he's promised to S me a red dress for some reason I like I really don't know why and it's his birthday today so I'm going to make it for his birthday present oh yeah but you have to wear what a make it is that a deal deal okay but first Darren got a sewing class from [Music] chah which I don't think he understood much of Stitch it by hand like this I I knew that I just wanted to make sure

that you was testing so as she TS help Darren was feeling questionably confident it's going to be a collector's piece one day this thing's going to be worth dollars I hope he likes it it comes from the heart Danny Boy I hope you enjoy it I think it looks amazing I like it what what do you think about my garment for sey there you go is this my real birthday present for this s me I'm actually quite hurt if I wore that it would look like a maternity dress in addition to sewing classes Uday and

Care focuses on equipping thousands of girls with mentoring and personal development that they need in order to excel in life in speaking to Deek I have to say that he is truly one of the most inspirational people I've ever met and I've been so blown away by how profoundly this organization has impacted these young people and given them an opportunity at life that they otherwise would never have had but because of the large number of girls that deepo cares for He constantly struggles to find the financing he needs to support them deac is such a

kind and generous human being who is dedicating his life to lifting up and improving the lives of all of the girls that he cares for over here so we wanted to make sure to equip him with the resources he needs to continue supporting hundreds of these girls for years to come we want to help you as much as we possibly can we are going to help you pay for the running of this house for the next year we're also going to pay for 280 chelini scholarships oh my God looks like a dream to me to

be honest thank you so much I would like to than you with these scholarships 280 young women will be granted an opportunity to get mentoring education and taught the skills they need to live a much more prosperous life than the life they were born into and beyond that we will get you it equipment as well we've been so inspired not just by this organization but by the people of India that we have already started looking at a long-term involvement over here that's wonderful that's amazing it has so much to do for the community that if

we start looking at the picture the right approach has to be what I can do as an individual and if each one of us could think like that I think the world would be a better place to live that's what I feel after 3 months of Designing the dress shetel was finally ready to reveal her work to Jacqueline so together with deepo we flew them out from New Deli to Mumbai for shidel 3 months of hard work had built up to this very moment and she wasn't sure how jacn would react but now the time

has finally come is this the dress yeah that's the dress I need for you she do oh my God I love it t is so freaking cool you've made me feel good wearing this it actually does make one feel powerful like while wearing it for someone who so so young and so new into this I am so astonished by your capability and your talent so the inspiration behind this dress was the work done by legendary designer Alexander McQueen and I'm really inspired by his work so it's more like an armor which can be worn by

women and show Power and protection I just can't even begin to describe how proud I am of her she has come so far dearest Papa friend there have been times when I didn't trust myself to the point where I felt lost but you always there by my side and never lost faith in me you always believe that I can achieve anything that I desire thank you so much for being a cool dad I hope one day I will make you proud and fulfill your dreams keep pursuing your heart and believing in your mission because kids

like us need more people like you in this world your loving daughter [Music] so I have some exciting news right nowo this dress designed by you worn by me is going to go up for auction on the Beast philanthropy website and all the proceeds from the dress will be going directly to UD day in care and a big thank you to Jacqueline Fernandez and her own philanthropic organization YOLO an initiative born to create and share stories of kindness till date we've been able to help out and work with 19 plus NOS in really d need

if you want to learn more about YOLO and Jacqueline check out the link in the description and a special thank you to shabam arwell without him a lot of this project wouldn't have been possible and one more thing I want to give a shout out and huge thank you to the people at India today for hosting Dan and Darren they had an absolute blast learning to dance practicing classic shauk Khan Bollywood lines in public and tons of other incredible content check out the exclusive behind the scenes action on India Today India Today gaming and OGG

talk links are in the description below and as always thank you for watching this video Until the End by doing this you're allowing Feast philanthropy to continue doing projects like this and change people's lives all around the world this is just the first of two videos we will be making in India so if you don't want to miss the next one make sure you subscribe please click the link in the description to donate or bid on the dress