In the first week of November, I was in rural Uttar Pradesh, sitting down with a group of women, interviewing them about the loans they had taken through Rang De. I was accompanied by four staff members from our partner organisation, who were there to facilitate the conversation. Two of these staff members were […]
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“They only live who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive” – Swami Vivekananda On 4th October, I joined the Rang De team on a Field Trip to meet a community of borrowers in Warangal, associated with the Sarvodaya Youth Organization (SYO). We were a group of 12 members and we reached […]
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“Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.” – Helen Keller It was 6 am on a Saturday morning, and our group of Changemakers had gathered for a little adventure – their first field trip to meet our borrower community near Mysore. Along the way we chatted, getting to […]
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One would imagine that sitting in a building with a glass façade, surrounded by cubicle walls on three sides makes people forget the realities of the world. But as often is the case, people end up surprising us. As we stood in front of the glass façade of the Koramangala office of Optum on a […]
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With the help of our field partner VAMA, we have been able to offer crowdsourced microcredit to 3,459 individuals If you define poverty as the state when a mother has to wonder what to feed the child next day, you can find that in Datiya in Madhya Pradesh. In Kerala, Assam, Jharkand and Maharashtra, we […]
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Bound by the mountains, the women of Uttarakhand make earnest attempts to start alternate livelihood activities to keep the home running and can now take Rang De loans that you can support here Travellers on the pilgrimage route in Uttarakhand halt only to catch a night’s sleep. Few get to experience the life of people who […]
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A 26-year-old weaver with a locomotor disability took a Rang De loan to support her single mother Early civilisations developed around river valleys. Rivers nurture, replenish and sustain. But they can disrupt as well. The Brahmaputra traverses for over 700 kilometres across the state of Assam. Extreme flooding is never far away when the rains fall. […]
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These words are by “The First American” , Benjamin Franklin, and perfectly exemplify the philosophy of Vigyan Ashram, Rang De’s field partner in Maharashtra. Rang De’s Pune team started the month of November by a field visit to Vigyan Ashram in Pabal , followed by a visit to the engineering and fabrication workshop of Ganesh Pawar, a […]
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Many of us working in the corporate sector have a strong desire to spend at least some of our time doing something more “meaningful” and actually make an impact, somewhere in someone’s lives. And while it is truly commendable that some of us actually do take time off to help out for a cause, I […]
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Rang De had just initiated a Kolkata Chapter and as newly joined members of the organisation, we were very curious to know more about their model and ongoing projects. We decided to start off with our very first field visit to the Thakurpukur unit of the Kalighat Society for Development Facilitation along with Debanjana. It […]
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