Teen brothers turn old bedsheets from hotels into bags for vendors, eye pillow cases next

And that’s not all, under the same initiative, they inspired students of Sri Chaitanya Techno School in Manapakkam to also take up the cause.

Jai, a Class 12 student from Sindhi Model School, said, “You and I can afford to buy cloth bags. But for vendors it is a costly option and without it, they will lose a customer. That’s why we thought of distributing cloth bags to them for free.”

Interestingly, there are hotels — such as Savera, GRT and Westin — that have stepped up to the brothers’ aid as they turned over their old bedsheets for the cause. 

Then the tees roped in inmates of the Rehoboth - Home For Mentally Challenged Women and independent women tailors. The women make Rs five per bag from and are paid from a pool crowdsourced from willing donors like friends, said Jai.

“Thirty bags can be made out of one bedsheet and the hotels gave us about 800 bedsheets, mostly white,” he said. “Now, we are looking at asking people to send us their old pillow covers as they too can easily be converted into bags and we want to reach out to a large number of vendors through this initiative,” Jai added.

Apart from this, the brothers put their energies into other social causes such as not bursting of crackers, helping visually challenged people with their education and more.

“Once Kiran Bedi ma’am suggested that we support more causes and we did exactly that,” said Jai who is keen to pass on the baton to his younger brother as he prepares for Triathlon — a multi-discipline sport comprising swimming, cycling and running.