Hi All, The idea is good, I have been thinking about the practicality of the idea and have some concerns which I listed down, Later down I have explained about what we can do regarding each of these points.
1. The initial investment could vary from 30k - 100k or more towards advance of a shop, based on the area. So how much are we going to invest on the shop and then based on orders we need to find a wholeseller and for that need to pay. 2. We need to have someone who can take up the responsibility of the store, and oversees the transactions happening. 3. Where do we set it up? 4. Initial ground work needs to be done before we start, in the sense the whole sellers available and what are the things that we will put up at the store. Regd 1: We can decrease initial investment if we can set up the store at a place where we know the owner, so that we can convince him/her to take lesser advance. Regd 2 & 3: Providing Livelihood to someone who is in need is well and good but how much can we trust someone whom we dont know. So there needs to be a person from our side whom we know who can just be there at the place and monitor the activities. Then it comes down to whom can we give that responsibility to. One of our parents overlooking is good, but then with the current level of traffic, do they really feel good to go to a place and sit their for a day and come back. Having people on shifts I guess will not be possible, one of the reasons is the logistics, as people who have retired or in that age will love to have something walkable to their home and most of us are dispersed in all parts of the city, so having our parents monitor in shifts doesnt seem to be practical. Also that can raise some ego issues which is possible even for very minor issues. Regd 4: I guess right now we are in need of volunteers to take up lots of field work and make progress in the activities which we have already started. We have roughly 6 for Medical and 6 for Education. And have FDP as well every Sunday. So its gonna be hectic.... My point is we need to still consolidate our activities in the main areas, and also most of us are involved in not just TMAD alone, so are we really going to justify the tasks which we are taking up. I personally dont like putting my legs in too many things and not justify any of them, I would feel guilty abt it and does not give the satisfaction of service for which I committed myself for. And also at the end of the day after the tasks if we feel tired, then we will lose our interest and focus. So we need to take up tasks only if we feel we can accomplish it without over stretching ourselves. These are things that we need to think off before we go forward and start making our efforts. There could be many more. I like the idea but I find myself stuck in search of time to accomplish the same. So lets discuss it out and when we feel we have most of the practical things sorted out then we can go ahead with setting up. Just my views... Chaitanya
