The Vamshadhara Weavers Producers company office in Srikakulam, Andhra Pradesh We are about 40 kilometres from Srikakulam, the coastal district in Andhra Pradesh abutting Southern Odisha. The board members of the Vamshadhara Producer Company are sitting around a circle, discussing the previous year’s finances. Vamshadhara, which currently works with some 120 weavers in the remote, rural […]
Read MoreBy Aruna Vayuvegula I accompanied Rang De on a field visit to the Dharani Farming and Marketing Cooperative Society in Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh As I sat down to dinner, the face of Sarojamma flashed before my eyes. It is farmers like her who need to be credited for the food that comes to our table. I […]
Read MoreDharani is a collective of organic farmers and their products are sold in Bangalore and Hyderabad Should we wait for a drought to conserve water? Should we wait for erosion to conserve the soil? Should we wait for a crop failure to adopt organic farming? Should we wait for the total depletion of resources to […]
Read MoreA lot of hard work and investment goes into Farming. Contrasting with its share of greenery, Andhra Pradesh also has drought-stricken areas in Kurnool, Anantapur, Srikakulam, Prakasam, and Nellore. We have disbursed over 930+ loans and worked with three microventures (organisations focused on rural development) in this state. Out of the 74 professions we have disbursed […]
Read More25 volunteers went to Andhra Pradesh to see for themselves the transformation taking place in rural Anantpur due to the efforts of Timbaktu Collective The following blog post was written by a Misys employee. In July, our Mi-Care team, in collaboration with Rang De, planned a delightful weekend visit to Timbaktu Collective situated in the […]
Read MoreHandloom is one of the largest economic activities, considered by many to be the second largest community of working individuals in rural India, providing direct employment to over 65 lakh families, but it is fast losing its importance. Access Livelihoods Consulting (ALC) India, a Hyderabad-based social enterprise established in 2005 to work with weavers and […]
Read MoreRang De is transitioning from a charitable trust to a Non Banking Financial Company. Check out our brand new peer-to-peer lending platform rangde.in Did you know that rice was not once the staple food in many places in South India? Did you know that the cost of gold has gone up 20 times since 1960 […]
Read MoreBy Smita Ram, Rang De Team Bakshi Bee — group leader of ‘Allah Baksh’ “ We need a second chance, a rebirth” says Bakshi Bee who is the group leader of ‘Allah Baksh’ — the last group that Rang De funded in Andhra Pradesh. There has been an almost eerie silence about microfinance for the last few months after […]
Read MoreThe recent microfinance crisis in Andhra Pradesh is a grim reminder that scale minus thought leadership combined with knee jerk reactions can be disastrous. The result being that a phenomenon that could positively impact the lives of many low income households across India has come to a screeching halt in the state. A summary of […]
Read MoreBy Aishwarya Mishra, Rang De Hyderabad Chapter On a bright sunny afternoon we reached Yemmiganur, a bustling town at a distance of 70 kms from Kurnool. Our team consisted of 9 Rang De Chapter Members and after a mostly comfortable 5 hour ride all of us were raring to start the borrower evaluations. We had […]
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