Meeting our borrowers is an integral part of the field trips undertaken by the Impact team at Rang De I was born in the 90s. Yes, the same generation that has grown up alongside India’s digital revolution. There is another silent change which has kept up with the immense change in India post liberalisation: the growth […]
Read MoreRajesh (front row, right) the former Chief Technology Officer at Rang De. Very few people empathize with the challenge of finding and retaining talent in the social space. Among the many constraints that organizations in the sector experience, I would rate the lack of human capital as one of the biggest. The lack of awareness that […]
Read MoreVirendra Singh’s story makes for inspiring reading. It is the story of a man who, after leaving for the USA from India as a young graduate in the late 1960’s, returned to his ancestral village in rural Uttar Pradesh to set up a school for girls. We meet Sam — as Virendra Singh is called by family […]
Read More– Unlike many of the students we meet during the course of our field evaluation, the bearded young man standing in front of us, wearing a red shirt, is completely at ease, “I’ve done so many interviews before, so I’m comfortable with it now” he says. This is 20-year old Praveen Bagore, a third year […]
Read MoreRang De team member Sushmita Banda and social investor Aravind Deivendran are just back from a field trip to Palakkad and have brought back inspiring tales of our incredible borrowers from Kerala. Presenting the photo stories of the trip!
Read MoreBy Aishwarya Mishra, Rang De Hyderabad Chapter Afridi: God, Please help me come back in batting form and beat India God: Son, I’m helpless bcoz I’m the opening batsman for India..! — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — Ravi Shastri: Afridi, How will Pakistan stop Sachin from making his 100th ton Afridi: We have thought about it a lot. Our strategy […]
Read MoreWith Gandhi Jayanthi just around the corner, we present to you a poem titled “Let’s give their dreams hues of reality!”. The poem was written by Arvind Iyer, a Rang De Supporter. Arvind writes to us saying: On the occasion of Gandhi Jayanthi, this poem is dedicated to the ‘Rang De’ initiative which is engaged […]
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