Archive for 'Microfinance'

By Smita Ram, Rang De Team Goat rearing and Vegetable vending are perhaps two of the most often quoted examples on how the poor earn huge returns. It is always said that a poor vegetable vendor can earn upto 20% return on their investment everyday. Similar percentages are quoted for goat rearing. Isn’t it time Read more …

By Raghav Parthasarasthy, Sri Ranganathan and Sreekanth Ragunath, Members of the Rang De Bangalore Chapter The need for a place for the Rang De Bangalore Chapter to have its regular meetings, where volunteers and new initiates would get to interact, come up with campaign ideas, decide to lead or be part of teams carrying out Read more …

By Sreekanth and Sri Ranganathan Rang De Bangalore Chapter Members The Rang De Bangalore Chapter has coordinated with Jaaga, a place that plays host to several activities undertaken by organisations in the social/developmental and arts sectors to use Jaaga as a venue to hold its first (of a series of) information-sharing sessions with the interested Read more …

By Smita Ram, Rang De Team With all the recent euphoria about field trips, the Rang De field trip recently reached a different league altogether. It was hard to contain our excitement when we received a phone call from none other than Ms. Waheeda Rehman. She had read about us on a recent story in Read more …

By Aishwarya Mishra, Rang De Hyderabad Chapter Member It was a sunny (honestly, it was hot ) Monday morning when Ram and I started out for a field visit to interact with borrowers living near the Charminar area of Old Hyderabad. Believe me, I am not being poetic or hyperbolic when I say this – Read more …

By Ramakrishna Nk, Rang De Team After a very inspiring TEDxHitechCity Meet at Hyderabad, Aishwarya (member of the Rang De Hyderabad Chapter) and I decided to take off to the Charminar area to meet some of the recipients of our education loan. Aishwarya took half a day off and we both set off with a Read more …

By Smita Ram, Rang De Team Meeting a Rang De borrower after they have utilised the loan is a truly unique experience. It suddenly dispels all myths about the working poor and makes one think about how much planning actually goes into a micro-business.  However, people who are not able to travel and want to Read more …

By Rang De Bangalore Chapter Members It all started when Archana wrote to the Rang De Bangalore Chapter Group in early January, asking if walking near MG Road in Bangalore on Republic Day with Rang De gear to spread awareness about Rang De, would look silly! Ten of us Rang De Bangalore Chapter members did Read more …

By Shirley Ghosh, Rang De Team The Rang De field partner meet on Dec 11 and 12 was packed with events as Rang De’s field partners had come from places across India. You can read the blogpost titled “Rang De field partner meet” if you haven’t read it. Kalyan from the Pan IIT foundation explains Read more …

By Arvind Sridharan, Rang De Blogger Participants of the first Rang De Field Partner Meet take a group photo. Approximately 40 people participated in the meet. Dec 11 and Dec 12 were two big days for Rang De. Rang De’s field partners from across India had come to Chennai for a two day meet discuss Read more …