Archive for 'Field Visits'

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 Smita Ram, Rang De Team Grace, passion, strength, sacrifice, resilience ..I run short of words when I try and describe what a woman embodies. Personally, it disturbs me to see women being denied opportunities based on gender. I have seen and experienced us women losing out on opportunities – be it economic, social, physical 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 Tejan Balakrishnan and Dinesh Agarwal, Rang De Kolkata Chapter Dinesh (on the right), Rang De Kolkata Chpater Members with SVSS office bearers. Many thanks to SVSS, Rang De’s field partner in West Bengal for making this trip possible. It just came to be that two members of the recently formed Kolkata Chapter of Rang Read more …

A few social investors from the Bangalore Chapter went on a field visit to villages around Vandavasi to meet borrowers and the field partner agency – ASSCOD. Harshvardhan was a part of the group and he talks about the trip to Vandavasi and what they found out about the borrowers there. Read on and find Read more …

By Vikram Murthy, Summer Intern – IIM Calcutta “Once we identify the borrowers we would finance their expansion plans and then get them mentored by experts in areas that the borrowers would need help in!” When Ram finished explaining his idea I was excited by this first-of-its kind initiative, the mentoring initiative, which lends a Read more …

Smita and Diksha on the banks of the Brahmaputra On a recent visit to Assam, Diksha and Smita had the chance to understand and soak in the local Assamese culture. The trip left both Smita and Diksha wanting to spend more time in Assam. What the rest of the team had to put up with Read more …