Business tycoon Anand Mahindra, who is fairly active on social media, recently shared a picture of a cobbler sitting in front of a billboard that claimed to be a hospital for ‘wounded shoes’. Impressed, Mahindra said that the man could teach marketing to management students and his team even tracked the man down with an offer to help.
The cobbler identified as Narsi Ram from Haryana, refused monetary help from Mahindra and instead requested a better kiosk. Determined to help him, Mahindra gave the task to his organisation’s design team and even shared various design options the team came up with.
Seems like the project has finally concluded with Mahindra tweeting a video of the kiosk on Wednesday.
“Remember the cobbler Narsi Ram with the innovative banner ‘Zakhmi Jooton Ka Hospital?’ Our team had contacted him & conveyed my interest to invest in him. He said he wanted a good kiosk. This is what our Design studio in Mumbai came up with: Great work guys! Will be delivered soon,” he wrote.
Watch the video here:
Remember the cobbler Narsi Ram with the innovative banner ‘Zakhmi Jooton Ka Hospital?’ Our team had contacted him & conveyed my interest to invest in him.He said he wanted a good kiosk. This is what our Design studio in Mumbai came up with:Great work guys! Will be delivered soon pic.twitter.com/wDgKDPoeHr
— anand mahindra (@anandmahindra) August 1, 2018
The kiosk offers many facilities like being suitable for all weather. Impressed with the Mahindra Group chairman’s initiative, many people praised tweeted praising him. Here are some of the reactions:
Wonderful Sir, u proves tht to help someone you dont need Money but intent...
— Abhinav Singhal (@abhinavksinghal) August 1, 2018
Excellent. Design thinking in action#designthinking
— hemant bhawsar (@BhawsarHemant) August 1, 2018
Sir,now here u have made a lifetime admirer n follower and that's me.😊😍... Lots of gratitude n power to u sir 🙏🙏🙏🙏n definitely this is such a good news that it shd retweeted as much as possible.... Actions speak louder than words...u hv proved it sir... Humanity always wins
— Shalini Kashyap (@Shalini98964892) August 1, 2018