Anirudh Dutt, Founder and President of Let’s Be The Change, talks about his journey that started out as a environmentally conscious passtime during the holidays and turned into a large organisation with over 1000 volunteers, 300 cleanliness drives, pet adoption campaigns, Clay Ganapathi workshops. They have one mission - Clean India!
Anirudh talks about how he started his journey, the challenges he overcame and the need for each person in society to contribute towards a change. He further explains how any and every individual can bring about a change in society using his story as an example.
Mr. Anirudh S Dutt a passionate banglorean at heart is a Social Entrepreneur and the founder of ‘Let's Be The Change’. He is the Recipient of the ‘Rising Star of the Year’ award in 2015 from the Namma Bengaluru Foundation. His organisation aims to mobilise responsible citizens to contribute to the cleanliness of their neighbourhood. He would walk the streets of Bengaluru looking for the dirtiest areas in the city with the intent of cleaning them, and changing the way residents treat their neighbourhood. His childhood dream of giving back something to this society as he had seen a lot of people study here, grow up here, move to other countries made him take the first step by starting an organisation “Lets be the change” and campaigning to clean the city. His organisation has more than 700 caring volunteers, who at the drop of a message, wear gloves and reach a trouble spot to clean it up. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx