PRAPANJAM
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Prapanjam is a rural handicrafts venture producing eco-friendly, green products. Prapanjam is entirelypowered by, and hence empowering, rural women. We, at Prapanjam, are a sincere effort to bring tolimelight the many creative and niche craft skillset of these rural women and enable them withsustainable employment/income.Founded in 2008 by Thiru Kumaran Muthiah, an engineer from the MIT, chennai and an experiencedprofessional in offshore development, Prapanjam is a vision for creating self sustainable villages.Prapanjam was initially started with 10 women from T.Kallupatti village near Madurai, TN. Today, womenfrom nearly 21 adjoining villages are a part of this initiative adding a lot of creative value and quality tothe product line. You can read more about us at http://www.prapanjam.inAbout Prapanjam* Prapanjam has a dedicated design, R&D studio to add more creative and innovative products. All the teams are leaded by village women not the professionals.* Prapanjam has a dedicated Quality Control to ensure good quality of the products.* Prapanjam has a dedicated HR team to ensure high employee morale and their well-being* Prapanjam has a distributed production line to ensure continuous availability of our products.* Prapanjam is approved by Factory Act of India and is certified by SSI* Prapanjam can work with your designers to create custom products and/or branding* Prapanjam can easily scale for large volume orders. We have had the experience and ability to scale toProblem Statement we are focusing on:* Steady increase in number of school drop-outs in rural areas due to parents lacking a sustainable source of income.* Urban migration on the rise and steady decline in employment opportunities and income in rural India leading to the slow death of villages and strangulation of cities.* Evident lack of awareness among rural population about various government schemes leading to widespread misappropriation of funds, rampant poverty, corruption and decline in self esteem among rural masses.* Mahatma Gandhi&＃39;s vision - "India&＃39;s soul is in her villages and her up-liftment is possible only through the up-liftment of her rural masses" - This still is a dream.* World is in urgent need of ideas and products that are eco friendly and ensure the sustainability of mother earthOur Solution in Mahatma&＃39;s vision:* Generate rural employment to ensure zero migration and best use of locally available resources* Enable rural women to earn a regular income to ensure continuation of child&＃39;s education* Produce eco friendly alternates from farm waste and surplus for office and home use and be part of the anti-global warming movement.* Create awareness among urban masses and companies on the need for rural development .* Approach corporates and like minded individuals and institutions for support.* Prapanjam strongly believes - "it is always better to teach fishing than giving the fish".Happy Facts:* 100% Hand Made By Rural Women.* Supports Anti Global Warming.* Raw materials are usually the waste or surplus from farming.* Supports Waste management.* Wide range of products from Creative Rural Women.* Highly customizable products based on your requirement.* Re-investment of more than 90% of the profit to rural development activities.
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