Storytelling 

 Challenge - 

 I am currently studying and also I am a part of an NGO ( Non - governmental organisation )   which focuses on providing menstrual hygiene products to slums in India . Poverty refers   to a situation in which a person remain underprivileged from the basic necessities of life .   In addition , the person does not have an inadequate supply of food , shelter , and clothes .   In India , most of the people who are suﬀering from poverty can not aﬀord to pay for a   single meal a day .   Also , they sleep on the roadside ; wear dirty old clothes . In addition ,   they do not get proper healthy and nutritious food , neither medicine nor any other   necessary thing . 

 India as a country believes that women can not be touched or even use the same utensils   people at home use for cooking while she is on her period . Modern times have surely   brought a huge change in my society but there are still many places in which wearing a   pad is not accepted and women who are in their period have to use cloth which can   cause infection and rashes . People think that pads are n’t aﬀordable and even if they are   they are unsafe for women . Convincing women to actually buy pads or make their own   biodegradable pads i d the challenge we were facing . 

 Selection - 

 The most appropriate tool we could use for this challenge was storytelling , we could   share our own stories and bring experts to share their stories to convince women on why   they should shift to wearing pads instead of cloth . People tend to listen to stories and   involve themselves rather then just people telling them what to do . Storytelling gives   people a holistic approach . 

 Application - 

 Before a week I enrolled to this course called design thinking for innovation , as soon as I   enrolled for this course there was a major problem going around in the NGO and I thought   about how storytelling could be used as a tool to emotionally connect with out audience   ( villagers ) and convince them to use pads over rugged clothes . 

 Insight and approach - 

 We as a team of 5 applied storytelling to tackle our situation by actually taking expert   doctors to unprivileged areas and share their own experiences . We ﬁrstly had a group   meeting in which   we all gathered and shared our ideas on how we can tackle this issue ,   after studying this particular course I thought that storytelling was the best approach we   can use and I gave them speciﬁcs on how people will connect more to stories rather then   presentations . After an hour long debate we were all convinced that this was the best   approach . 

 Within the next 2 days we talked to diﬀerent doctors on how they could help us in this   cause and it was astonishing that more than 12 doctors actually agreed to come with us   and talk to people on why they should be wearing pads . Shockingly we also found a 

 doctor who was convinced that she could show people on how to make their own   washable pads at home which were safe to use and cost eﬀective . 

 Next day we planned a visit to a particular village and gathered all the females and told   them to share their stories and then our experts told their own stories . People were really   excited and then we had a full day planned on how they could make their own pads . 

 My eyes were wide open on the power of storytelling , convincing the women to use pads   was a mammoth task but listening to them and then sharing our own experiences made   them sympathise with us which ﬁnally led to them accepting to wear pads . 


EMAIL: 
ID_NUM: 
NAME_STUDENT: 
PHONE_NUM: 
STREET_ADDRESS: 
URL_PERSONAL: 
USERNAME: 

### Task: You are a PII (Personal Identity Information) Detection. Given a essays written by students, you have to identify ONLY the following:
NAME_STUDENT - The full or partial name of a student that is not necessarily the author of the essay. This excludes instructors, authors, and other person names.
EMAIL - A student’s email address.
USERNAME - A student's username on any platform.
ID_NUM - A number or sequence of characters that could be used to identify a student, such as a student ID or a social security number.
PHONE_NUM - A phone number associated with a student.
URL_PERSONAL - A URL that might be used to identify a student.
STREET_ADDRESS - A full or partial street address that is associated with the student, such as their home address.
### Input: Storytelling 

 Challenge - 

 I am currently studying and also I am a part of an NGO ( Non - governmental organisation )   which focuses on providing menstrual hygiene products to slums in India . Poverty refers   to a situation in which a person remain underprivileged from the basic necessities of life .   In addition , the person does not have an inadequate supply of food , shelter , and clothes .   In India , most of the people who are suﬀering from poverty can not aﬀord to pay for a   single meal a day .   Also , they sleep on the roadside ; wear dirty old clothes . In addition ,   they do not get proper healthy and nutritious food , neither medicine nor any other   necessary thing . 

 India as a country believes that women can not be touched or even use the same utensils   people at home use for cooking while she is on her period . Modern times have surely   brought a huge change in my society but there are still many places in which wearing a   pad is not accepted and women who are in their period have to use cloth which can   cause infection and rashes . People think that pads are n’t aﬀordable and even if they are   they are unsafe for women . Convincing women to actually buy pads or make their own   biodegradable pads i d the challenge we were facing . 

 Selection - 

 The most appropriate tool we could use for this challenge was storytelling , we could   share our own stories and bring experts to share their stories to convince women on why   they should shift to wearing pads instead of cloth . People tend to listen to stories and   involve themselves rather then just people telling them what to do . Storytelling gives   people a holistic approach . 

 Application - 

 Before a week I enrolled to this course called design thinking for innovation , as soon as I   enrolled for this course there was a major problem going around in the NGO and I thought   about how storytelling could be used as a tool to emotionally connect with out audience   ( villagers ) and convince them to use pads over rugged clothes . 

 Insight and approach - 

 We as a team of 5 applied storytelling to tackle our situation by actually taking expert   doctors to unprivileged areas and share their own experiences . We ﬁrstly had a group   meeting in which   we all gathered and shared our ideas on how we can tackle this issue ,   after studying this particular course I thought that storytelling was the best approach we   can use and I gave them speciﬁcs on how people will connect more to stories rather then   presentations . After an hour long debate we were all convinced that this was the best   approach . 

 Within the next 2 days we talked to diﬀerent doctors on how they could help us in this   cause and it was astonishing that more than 12 doctors actually agreed to come with us   and talk to people on why they should be wearing pads . Shockingly we also found a 

 doctor who was convinced that she could show people on how to make their own   washable pads at home which were safe to use and cost eﬀective . 

 Next day we planned a visit to a particular village and gathered all the females and told   them to share their stories and then our experts told their own stories . People were really   excited and then we had a full day planned on how they could make their own pads . 

 My eyes were wide open on the power of storytelling , convincing the women to use pads   was a mammoth task but listening to them and then sharing our own experiences made   them sympathise with us which ﬁnally led to them accepting to wear pads .
### Output: 