Support young changemakers in India

Dear generous benefactor,

We are deeply grateful for your large-hearted contribution to Access Agriculture campaign “Support young changemakers in India” on the GlobalGiving platform. The campaign is helping young women embark as entrepreneurs to bring knowledge on nature-friendly farming to their communities using a smart projector containing videos.

• One of the woman-led entrepreneurs has trained rural families in setting up nutri-gardens (an advanced form of kitchen garden) as a source of nutrition and income. This has helped the farm families grow indigenous varieties of vegetables, fruits, herbs and spices, without the use of chemical inputs. This team’s story has been featured in LEISA (a magazine on ecological agriculture) and our publication “Young changemakers.”

• Your support has allowed us to equip a new team led by young women entrepreneurs with a smart projector and digital skills in central India. In the first month, using the smart projector this team has already trained over 80 women farmers in producing organic biofertiliser to improve soil fertility and plant growth. Moreover, the team is earning a small but steady revenue by providing its e-advisory services to other like-minded organisations.

These women changemakers couldn’t have achieved all this without your generous support! We truly can’t thank you enough for helping these young women entrepreneurs make a positive impact on their community.

Sincerely,

Links:

• Reaping health and wealth benefits from nutri-garden
• Indian Young Changemakers

Dear gracious friend of Access Agriculture,

We are incredibly grateful for your generous and selfless support to our GlobalGiving campaign “Give wings to women entrepreneurs in rural India,” which seeks to equip young women with smart projectors and skills to run sustainable enterprises using quality videos to train their communities grow healthy food without chemicals.

The long-term impact that your support has made to the target communities cannot be overstated, as you can see from the examples below. You can read their stories in the attached pdf versions:

• Reaping health and wealth benefits from nutri-gardens: One of the entrepreneur teams is using the smart projector to champion the nutri-garden initiative, which seeks to increase farmers’ income, while enhancing the health and well-being of rural families through better access to diversified, nutritious food across seasons.
• Boosting a rural bio-input resource model: Another entrepreneur team is pioneering a rural bio-input resource centre (BRC) model, which includes bio-fertilisers and bio-pesticides, that are produced locally with available natural resources.
• Empowering rural women in mushroom entrepreneurship: The third entrepreneur team has trained rural women in mushroom cultivation, which is helping them get a decent livelihood with little investment.

We are delighted to share their stories with you to show the huge difference your contributions have made in the lives of our young entrepreneurs and people in their communities.

You will be pleased to know that thanks to your generous contribution, we will be able to support a new entrepreneur team to serve the tribal (indigenous) communities in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.

 With deepest gratitude,

Links:

• Young Changemakers

• India__Matsyaraju_Vanthala.pdf (PDF)
  
• India__Abhishekam_Vathala.pdf (PDF)
  
• India__Janaki_Bobbili.pdf (PDF)