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A Successful Investment Banker turned into a Role Model Social Worker and Entrepreneur, Dhruv Lakra
Dhruv Lakra is the founder and CEO of Mirakle Couriers which is a revenue-driven courier company that utilizes low-pay deaf and disabled grown-ups in this manner delinking noble causes with handicaps.
In the wake of moving on from HR College, Mumbai, and finishing a Postgraduate Diploma in Social Enterprise Management at the South Indian Education Society, College of Management Studies, where he was perceived as the Most Enterprising Student, he joined DSP Merrill Lynch as an investment banker.
After a short time, disappointment with the work incited him to take a gander at different roads. He labored for a very long time and afterward joined an NGO, Dasra, in January 2005. Almost two years after the fact, he was prepared to move once more. Quick to investigate the center way between friendly work and regular business, he settled on an MBA degree in social entrepreneurship from Said Business School, Oxford University, London.
In the wake of finishing his MBA, he set up Mirakle Couriers and got his imaginative organization going with his very own blend of reserve funds and heavenly messenger capital. Playing out all conveyance and administrative center capacities, his group speaks with one another and their customers using SMS instant messages, gesture-based communication, and thorough occupation preparing.
They have effectively prepared Deaf grown-ups and Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) in an industry which is for the most part viewed as intense and not fit them. Mirakle Couriers are utilizing all kinds of people both men and women, along these lines overcoming the shame of deaf women getting into work. This association works with the disabled in hearing peoples which prompts a more profound comprehension of the difficulties looked by them.
It is gradually changing the impression of deaf grown-ups with hearing individuals and is setting a good example model for the young to wander into social business and foster models that can tackle social issues. They are additionally fostering a creative model for pickups by employing Women with Disabilities in Pune.
Throughout the most recent two years, Mirakle Couriers have developed to work in 2 Branches in the city, utilizing 70 deaf and disabled representatives and conveying more than 65,000 shipments each month. They have won a few honors including the 2009 Hellen Keller award and the 2010 National Award for the Empowerment of People With Disabilities.