#AbMontuBolega- a campaign which highlights the importance of speaking up

Credits : Strepsils and IndiBlogger

Strepsils recently launched their campaign "#AbMontuBolega", now you'd surely be wondering at this point what this campaign is about and how does it affect you, right! Let me explain you about the campaign in brief.

The campaign emphasizes on the important aspect of raising your voice and not just being silent on the issues where your opinion matters. In India, we usually let the situation collide from our hands because "chalta hai" but it's this chalta hai attidue which must, shall and will definitely change.
Montu is the character in the campaign which highlights the importance of speaking up and how things can be put into right if you come forward and speak for the right. Similarly our country India currently finds itself on the crossroads of a change - we've 2 options.

1st option is to watch and see things being done and hoping for a change or 2nd - "be part of the change, we want to see in the world". We as Indians take pride in saying that we're a country that has a great history and traditional values but doesn't one of these values emphasize on cleanliness of life, cleanliness of surroundings, cleanliness to welcome the goddess Saraswati and Lakshmi - why are we then not following on the values of life, on which our earlier generations spent their lifetime following.

I remember my great grandfather sweeping all the waste around his house and even thought he used to wake up at 4:00 in the morning and go to his farm and then come back in the evening tired, he still found time for the things that MATTERED. Such were the values of our previous generations then isn't it our responsibility to make for a better environment for the NEXT generation?

The aim of swacch bharat is an aim of a billion people and this aim can only become a reality if we're willing to put in the hard work - now I don't say that give your 24x7 to cleaning and don't do anything else but ask yourself the fundamental question - how long does it really take to clean the surroundings around you, be it even in the radius of 100m around your house or even 50m, a start is so crucial for a campaign like this.

When an individual starts cleaning 50m around his/her house, few more come forward and start cleaning 50M around their house and then a circle builds and before you know it this 50m turns into a nation and then into a "World of change".

This is a welcome initiative from Strepsils and it must help us "raise our voice" and speak for the betterment of our country, gone are the days when we used to sit silent.. It's time to come forward and be part of a revolutionary change.

http://www.abmontubolega.com/ is the site where you can speak and be HEARD. Further, do also follow Strepsils on Facebook and Twitter to be up to-date with this initiative. 

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#CleanIndia is an India that's on the path of development, let's be part of this

A country of billion people is bound to be faced with many issues but in our country I feel one of the most major problems is that of poor facilities of toilets in villages particularly.

For a country that takes pride in saying that it's developing, can we have the majority of our population that resides in villages without a toilet in their houses and the defecation in open.  Is this what our country has to show for it's development? Shouldn't we ensure to do our bit in combating this massive problem and finding a solution to it.

Thankfully, there is a solution and a ray of hope.

#ToiletForBabli is one such initiative that takes pride in providing toilet facilities to people in Indian villages and this initiative is administered by Domex, which has the mission of building over 24000 toilets by the year 2015, now this is one such initiative that we all must be part of.

You can imagine how a country that aims to become developed one day, can we actually allow the next generation of our country to grow in a place where defecation in open isn't dealt with!

Recently we've had our honorable Prime Minister talk regularly about the #SwacchBharat mission and it's therefore fitting to say that if our Prime Minister CAN, WE CAN TOO. Let's aim big and let's achieve big.

Modi says that people tell him that he only talks about small issues like buildings toilets but I say, isn't it a necessity of life to at least have a toilet in your home! Can a girl child be allowed to grow in a village where she doesn't even has a toilet in her home. Open defecation is not only a social problem but beyond that, it's something that stops from the next generation developing.

Girl child in villages are not sent to school or don't go to school because their schools don't even have a toilet and if a school doesn't has a toilet, can a girl/women actually feel comfortable in such an surrounding? We need to ask ourselves the fundamental question - shouldn't the building of toilets be the priority for our country going forward?

I as an individual take this pledge that I shall do whatever in my capacity to ERADICATE the issue of open defecation and I do truly feel proud to be a small part of Domex initiative and let you be a part of it too.

All you need to do is “click” on the “Contribute Tab” on www.domex.in and Domex will contribute Rs.5 on your behalf to eradicate open defecation.

With hopes in our heart and the dream of an India where open defecation is a problem sorted out by the efforts of each one of us, let us thrive to bring about a change in our country. Jai Hind! :) 

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