Their six-day, 120-mile journey began in the midst of heavy snowstorm and ended with a plunge into the ocean - and close to $10,000 raised. In December, Daswani and her team took part in the Highs and Lows Walk to raise funds for the New Hampshire chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, hiking from the state’s highest point, Mount Washington, to its lowest, Hampton Beach. They raised $10,000 for a scholarship fund for families of the victims. Their first project was a four-day, 150-kilometer walk through Nova Scotia led by Deli Coli to honor the memories of 22 people killed in a mass shooting there earlier in the year. “Almost like an Uber for ideas.”Įven though they launched The Concept Project last November in the midst of the global pandemic, Daswani and her co-founders didn’t think small. “Essentially, our goal is to become a platform company that can be used for doing good,” says Daswani, an entrepreneurship major.

Their concept is simple: Challenge people to do good by taking part in different mental and physical challenges, while raising awareness and funds for various social causes. Even then, she was struck by “seeing so much sadness and hurt in the world,” and she vowed that one day she would find a way to help people in need.ĭaswani, Class of 2024, and two longtime friends, Garret Roberts of UMass Lowell and Adrian Deli Coli of Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, have created The Concept Project. As a young child, Emmie Daswani often traveled with her parents, whose work with the World Bank and the Environmental Protection Agency took them around the world.

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