Archive for 'Borrowers'

By Shantaram, Rang De Mumbai Chapter Member “Its time for scheduling a field trip”, was the subject of the mail, that made me quickly drop my work and take notice . It was Diksha from the Rang De Chennai Office, planning the regular evaluation field trips to one of the Rang De field partners. Rang Read more …

Here’s a chance for you to make a social investment on RangDe.Org and win a gift voucher of upto Rs. 500.  There is no luck involved! Read the details below: Part 1 : Make a social investment in a borrower listed (in the comments section, on our facebook page, or on twitter) within the given Read more …

By Preena Deepak, Rang De Team Rang De’s growing volunteer base has many a time been a source of immense inspiration to the team and a beacon to keep us going. When volunteers voice out their beliefs in our mission and pitch in to help beyond money, Rang De receives a second confirmation that all Read more …

By Preena Deepak, Rang De Team The month of July saw a buzz in Rang De’s vivacious volunteer community. It all began with an ad in the Newsletter calling for volunteers to edit content for borrower profiling. The immediate and quick responses from our Social Investors overwhelmed and charged up team Rang De and from Read more …

By Nikhil Kaushal, Rang De Team If one wonders what keeps the Rang De operations team busy and how a profile of a borrower comes up on the web for social investors to browse through, here are a few insights. The “Uploading of profiles” process, as we call it, is considered to be our most Read more …

By Diksha Belwal, Rang De Team My journey to Orissa started with excitement. I reached Chennai Egmore railway station as instructed by the travel agent. Only after reaching did I realize that my train was departing from Chennai Central (a few kilometers from Chennai Egmore). I got to know that at around 10:15pm and my Read more …

By Preena Deepak, Rang De Team With Mother’s day just around the corner, no one is exempt from thinking and planning an apt tribute to pay to our dear mothers who play such an important role in shaping us. No matter how old or young, a mother plays a major part in not just nurturing Read more …

By Kunal Nichkawade, Rang De Intern A picture of everyone at the Gurukul when we went to it. This Gurukul is located in Hanuanthkuppan, approximately 100km from Chennai. It has been almost 3 weeks now since I joined Rang De for my summer internship and it has been an amazing experience. Sometimes I feel the Read more …

By Smita Ram, Rang De Team While most of urban India would track the inflating gold prices and save money to invest in the ‘yellow metal’ the rural India has other things to worry about. In Orissa,where I have just returned from, it is the pursuit of another kind of gold that takes most of Read more …

By Nikhil Kaushal, Rang De Team Our field partner Hope IRDS has informed that the repayments for all flood affected borrowers from Mantralayam, Kurnool (AP) will start from 29th of March 2010. Manthrlayam & Yemmiganur were hit by a massive flood last year and around 50 Rang De borrowers along with thousands of others suffered Read more …