About the Speaker - Hi I'm Dwishojoyee Banerjee, a young girl from Patna, Bihar, currently residing in Delhi. My changemaking journey must've taken roots when at the age of 4 I questioned my father why is the soap "life buoy" named as life buoy( misreading it as boy) and not life human. From then on, I've voyaged as a volunteer throughout my school life. When I was 10, I started teaching kids in my parents' organisation, Kahaanighar. That experience has taught me that social work, for me, isn't the cherry on my cake, it is the very core of the cake. And so I've baked and iced the different layers at different stages of my life. The "now" layer is me building my organisation, "The Soft movement" to change the relationship people have with activism. Ours is an organisation focusing on ground level impact for climate action instead of keeping at raising awareness. That's why I named it "the soft movement", a movement that may be soft, that won't scream shouts of change, that won't create convulsion, but would make the change happen, a slow, sustainable and permanent change. The Paperbag project, by the soft movement, enables school students to come together to upcycle newspapers and make paperbags for distributing it free of cost to small vendorsoke flower sellers in India, who haven't been able able switch to sustainable alternatives despite the ban on single use plastic bags. So far we've reached over 5000 students in 17 cities via our 30 member team and have replaced 10,000+ single use plastic bags (jan 2022- August 2022).