A Year of Blindness, 30,000 Ghanaian bikes, & Makers in 170 Countries- #175: Sumit Ajwani | Makers

Laser eye surgery, a seemingly inconsequential, almost routine surgery, that in an instant turned into a nightmare. Sumit Ajwani, who had built a career creating films as head of production for a global ad agency in Canada, discovered he could no longer see. He was a wunderkind. His career was moving fast. He had just been appointed head of the ad agency at 23 years old. But this wouldn’t be the end of his story. Sumit would ultimately create a producer-led collaborative network called ‘Makers’ that would get involved with projects from giving bikes to kids in Ghana, building a Lego City inside a children’s hospital, and working with Habitat for Humanity. To date ‘Makers’ has 11,000 producers around the world in 173 countries. But the building of this collaborative future between creatives started actually before Sumit was born. It started with his father mailing a ring across an ocean over 40 years ago… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices