🇮🇳 Amit Jain is the co-founder of Mitti Ke Rang, a social enterprise working towards generating livelihoods for women in India. They train women entrepreneurs to start small businesses and support them to sell their handicrafts across the country.
😄 Amit says he’s always happy - nothing can make him unhappy, except 2 things: when his customers are not satisfied, and when the women entrepreneurs don’t receive money on their bank accounts.
🙏 We discuss his journey escaping poverty, finding a decent job and building Mitti Ke Rang, his gratefulness to all the people who supported him throughout his life and his drive to give back to them.
💸 We go through the evolution of Mitti Ke Rang over the years, from a local charity project in Pune to a national organisation, and the transition from being donation-based to their current social enterprise model.
💪 Amit is a people’s person, always curious and questioning everything, a proud budget traveler and he’s also a good friend of Shomy (Episode 4 - I turned my pain into my life purpose) and Edward (Episode 19 - Financing grassroots innovators) ;)
❤️ TIMELINE:
3’ - Fighting to get a first job
8’ - Starting Mitti Ke Rang to give back
18’ - Partnering with the right co-founder
20’ - If you have a problem, just try and fix it
28’- Keep being curious, keep learning and unlearning, keep connecting with people
42’ - Restarting Mitti Ke Rang from scratch to support grassroots women entrepreneurs and get money in their bank account
62’ - Mitti Ke Rang’s secret e-commerce recipe
74’ - Celebrating small victories
🗒️ References:
To order from Mitti Ke Rang and support them, it’s here: http://mittikerang.org/.
Connect with Amit on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amit-jain-9a4699a3/.
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