ROTRAY CULB TANE NORTH BOMBAY

Hello everyone good evening with big smile
Today i have talk in ROTRAY CLUB OF THANE SUBURBAN in north Bombay it was very good day for our dream we sold 22 book and some good contact  also i hope open more door through this talk  for our dream cafe i really want to say thanks to SMRITI GULWADY she the one who make this talk happen after the she read the  book thanks again and again to ROTRAY CLUB THANE people who allow me to share my life with them and to give this opporturnity to let people know about my cafe dream
all i will say is
I AM BECAUSE OF YOU

FROM DRIVER TO AMIN SHEIKH

AMIN  DRIVER 13 YEAR AGO photo BY CAROLINA AMELL

Hello Everyone
good morning with big smile
yesterday i had mention  that i have to explain the storey about this girls who is my dream team
here before we start with them i would like to start with me .
12 years ago somethings happened like this , 4 year working with EUSTACE  FERNANDES
one christmas 2002 Eustace  asked me amin what do  you want for christmas ?

AMIN and EUSTACE 

my answer was nothings but behind this nothings there was a big dream and that was to travel but i didn't tell anyone about this dream but  i was  dreaming inside me that one day i will also  go to Barcelona , America, Canada,London or Europe  but i never said to him [ EUSTACE ] or anyone.
some friend from Barcelona knew that i wanted  to come but it was not easy for me
well Christmas night Eustace asked me what i wanted for christmas as i told you all i said nothings
then he told me think what you want
after he is came back from church to home in the car he ask me  again what do you want this Christmas??? while  he was in the  church ,i was thinking i must tell him that i want to go to Barcelona so now i knew what i wanted and   i told him sir take me to Barcelona [Spain] he told me the first words are you mad??? and have  you lost your mind ???
he told something like this '' haaaa  take you  to Barcelona'' and  i reply yes  sir  please i know you are the one who can open the door for me to the world , but he kept on   repeating again and again  '' haaaa  take you  to Barcelona [ SPAIN].
he told me  have you lost your mind??? ask me anythings you want but i can't take you to Barcelona.
I knew it was not easy for him as well as for me , we had  arguments that night i knew it was not easy for him to take a driver  to Spain but well after few hours later he made for me a Christmas card as always he  use to  make me christmas card and wish me merry christmas and happy new year or on my birthday this was his speciality he always made the card for everyone, i use to admire him a lot for this , he was a great artist and had good mind to play with words in the card , poster or to make logos
so that night i don't wanted the card but when i open the card all i saw was amin merry christmas and
happy new year 2003 27 April we go to BARCELONA
all of you have no idea as me that  moment what i felt
no words to express all i was doing is crying with broken smile and hugging EUSTACE so tight , then on 27 April 2003 it was my 1st time i entered the airport .
 15 years ago i use to go to airport to watch planes flying over my head , i use to climb the walls sit there and  watch the planes flying then when i grew up i became a driver and i use to go to airport to pick up Eustace friends , family and  my clients but there was always one question in my head thinking what was behind that door???.
That 1 flight ticket changed my life and i  promised Eustace , i want to bring this change to many Amin like me one day , till now i have made 12 travels in 12 years , every travel made me grow wider mind , stronger and give me the  strength to make my dream in real
If Eustace had not opened that door for me maybe today i was still a driver maybe i was a different person with narrow mind , leave selfish life and have no passion or vision for my dream
This is the main reason i call travel  is the best book in life
I have met many people before my 1st travel and they promised me various things '' ohhhh i will bring you to Europe   but the some of them did not even contact me once their work was done ''.
Still i never gave up , hope and dream was my only strength at that moment i knew it was not easy to travel but also i knew the people who have money and power at least they can do something
As this 3 girls when they asked me for travelling  , i know it not easy all i did is find the way to bring their dream of travel in real there is no magic until to work for it because i know what it means to travel ..
Some of my friends are little upset on my decision of taking this 3 girls to Spain but i am not going to ask them nor i want to discuss about it ...
all i want to see is this 3 girls super smile and going to change their life for better even if they don't i have nothing to lose or worry about because i did my best .
I say all they have is an opportunity to either go up in life or go down , we are always the key for our own selves but every hand makes the difference to others life , this is my travel storey as all i want to say 13 years working for Eustace Fernandes this is all i have learn give back what you get in life
Eustace have been in my life the best boss ever , best father ever  and the best friend ever i could find in my life .
I AM BECAUSE OF YOU!!!!!!
3 STORIES  ON THE WAY .......
THANKS TO ALL THOSE WHO ARE FOLLOWING US
AMIN SHEIKH

Amin Sheikh today photo by Anne Laure

WE GOT THE VISA TO FLY

Hello Everyone
Good Evening with big smile
today has been very intensive day also we were very nervous for our visa interview, we know all will be fine but still we know our reality , Especially  for me and my dream team who have nothing
example  like no home , no money in bank ac  and proper job but we were lucky enough to have some angels around us , who understood our travelling reason and gave us this opportunity to see another world and to open our mind towards wider way of thinking.
According to me travel is the best book in our life , through this Spanish visa now this three girls has the opportunity to travel first time they will enter into airport and it is there first flight
As 12  years ago when i took the first flight Bombay to Barcelona i have no words to explain what i felt at that moment , i am proud and happy after 12 years this three girls that means three amin's will experience the same journey .
I can't wait to see that smile on their face when they arrive to other side of the world , i know what it  means this smile has no price.
    Today when they got the visa their eyes was full of tears and same time broken smile!!!
because it was unbelievable for them and the best part is they got the visa for three months and when i opened my passport looking for visa they gave me visa for 2 years , i can't believe my passport 1st time have visa for 2 years , there was a time when i  use to struggle to get visa even for 1 month but today it was a magic day for us .
As everyone has their own  storey to share , i have  this three girls storey to share with all of you
some people will say wwaaooo you are travelling to Spain you are so lucky but they have no idea what  this girls have gone  through to get this visa and to save money for their flight ticket 
before i share their storey, I  want to say a special thanks to MONICA GOMEZ FERNANDEZ  , VERONICA ROSA  they are the one who did all the police paper work in Spain {madrid} without this  police certificate it was not possible to get the visa for this girls and also big thanks to Spanish  consulate of Mumbai for giving us the visa and the opportunity to travel especially for this three girls the names of this girls [dreams team] are  CELINE DEVGUM , KHUSHBOO ALI and  SHABANA SHAIKH .
Thanks to each one of you who ever reading this post more storey to know and more stories to share 
I AM BECAUSE OF YOU!!!!!!!!!
Thanks once again to MONICA GOMEZ ,  VERONICA ROSA  AND THE SPANISH CONSULATE OF MUMBAI 
We are flying soon because of YOU... from Bombay to Barcelona 

CELINE DVEGUM, KHUSHBOO ALI, SHABANA SHAIKH 

HAPPY WOMEN DAY

Hello everyone 
good morning with big smile to everyone women on this earth 
if no women no man so i am proud to say happy women day and i am because of you WOMEN !!
Women are like flowers and mans like bees
if man don't take care of women no flowers and if not flowers then no bees to 
respect women in this life on this earth no mater who you are
if not this land will be without women and man cant do anythings
i am lucky and proud my project run by women and also my life is run women around my life this mines my mother,sisters niece and all that children from Sneha Sadan girls and my friends around this world and if you look at my Facebook or tiwtter and my blog most help by women then man
because women feel the project and want to do more and more and they ready for all
thank you everyone women friends and familys to be part of my life
I AM BECAUSE OF YOU AND THIS CAFE DREAM TOO HAPPY WOMEN DAY WITH BIG SMILE HUGS KISSS

HELP BY CECILE CARON

Hello everyone 

Good Evening  with big smile 

 I got this email from CECILE CARON from FRANCE 

CECILE CARON contacted  me in December  2014 

sending me this email 

Dear Amin,

I am Cecile, a french woman. I am living in France, in Grenoble (near the Alpen mountains). I met a woman in Dijon in last march, Isabelle, who was selling your book in her shop. I bought it, and was really impressed and enjoyed by your story, your energy, and your project.

I would like to help you with a gift of 100 euros. How may I proceed ? Do you have a website for online paying for instance ?

I also have a brother, Guillaume, who's living in Barcelona. I will offer him your book, and maybe he will be interested in following your project with your spanish friends, and speaking of it around him.

I wish  you a very happy new year, among your family and friends, with health, happiness, and a lot of support for progressing in your dream about the Bombay to Barcelona Café.

Thank you very much : I am because of you too.

Cécile.

AMIN > after this email ,we have been in touch by email and she called me on my cell phone , we was talking about the life, book and project she asked me  how she can help me to make this dream in real.

I told her all i need is your help more stronger then this money 

then after talking with her , she started thinking how she can help me 

and yesterday i got the email with pdf file and her email again 

this is what CECILE ANGEL done around her town.  

I am so lucky to meet people like this in my life

and i am so proud how people find their own  way to help when the want to help ,it doesn't matter which part of the world you are in......  

thank you CECILE ANGEL 

I AM BECAUSE OF YOU  

             

This is what she wrote me yesterday with pdf file and the flyer 

2 weeks ago, the organizers of a children's film festival, in Cinema "Le Melies" in Grenoble, kindly gave me the opportunity to present your project and your book during an indian session of their festival, as I already explained to you (the first indian movie was "the blue umbrella", and the second one "Salaam Bombay"). I also distributed flyers (see attached file) with links towards your website and your video (in French, in English). Many people were touched, and interested. I hope they will order and buy your book !

thank you CECILE CARON ANGEL 

I AM BECAUSE OF YOU 

SEE YOU SOON 

CECILE CARON 

FLYER

La Llama (Colectivo de Rap) - Sobrevivim

Hello Everyone good afternoon with big smile 
please i am asking everyone to here the song what job this children have done 
some time i say you don't have to be big person or big power 
and every small power make a big difference in this world and every small person can make the difference
one more great news through the song 
all this boys from BARCELONA and http://www.jovesteb.org/ stand by me and project thank you is very small words all i can say
I AM BECAUSE OF YOU
AMIN Sheikh and my Dreams team thanks you all to do such a great job

DOLORS COMA HELP

DOLORS COMA  

Hello Everyone 
Good night with big smile 
Last 3 week DOLORS COMA sold 50 BOOKS
she has been like Angel to my cafe dream project B2BLC 
the way she been selling  the book in all the place in india and Spain 
She is from Barcelona Figueres 
last two week she have sold 30 books in GOA 
yesterday i got the called from one lady called MONTSE R. VILÁ on my cell phone 

 she said'' amin hello i am Montse i have read your book i met dolors  in Goa and she sold your book to me and my friend CASILDA FERNANDEŹ can we meet you for a coffee''. 
so this morning i when to meet them at the THE TAJ MAHAL PALACE HOTEL on south Bombay 
after talking in taj lobby we went out for coffee to CCD  in south Bombay 
we started talking there for 1 hours and i explained to them  all the project 
it was really nice moments with both of them 
but the coffee was very bad and i was feelings more bad because we pay 220 Ruppes for bad coffee
and again i asked to my self why i pay so much for this coffee and why not we have better nice coffee place in Bombay 
any way all i want to say in this message i will not have such kind of coffee shop where only people can come  who have money  
not normal man like me can take nice coffee or tea 
and funny part of this cafe shop is when Montse asked for ginger tea , they reply  no we don't have ginger tea.At that moments i thought they have coffee but not simple ginger tea 
any way that's the way things work here and every where.....
after one hours MONTSE AND CASILDA gave me two Envelops for my cafe dream as donation 
when i came back home after all my work done  i opened the  Envelope  
both togethers they support to our cafe dream with 25000 indian rupees 
i was very surprise 
 just to explain you all it is  360 in euros 
wow dolors you are big magic walking to the beach  meeting people selling my book and not only this because of you i have 4 talk around BARCELONA CATALUNIYA in April 
all i can say is thank you is very small word for all your support and help 
see you soon to say thanks face to face  with big hugs in Figueres 
hey you know Dolors  Montse and Casilda will meet me in Barcelona and Madrid 
this all the good things happened 

I AM BECAUSE OF YOU 
Dolors Coma, Montse R Vilá , Casilda Fernandeź


  

AMIN , MONTSE AND CASILDA  

DREAMS TEAM FIGUERES