We are a team of 400 dedicated workers striving for shared prosperity. We believe that if families can live together as communities, human race can still flourish. We work in 6000 villages of India identifying and building economic activities which foster community formation through inter-dependence. Our clients are individual farmers, women and youth in villages and middle income families in cities. We help develop rural and urban linkage through a value chain approach in the field of banking, consumer goods as the last mile and textile and farm products as the first mile. We are presently disaggregated in 6000 villages and split in several verticals all aggregating profitably to a little over US$ 3 M annually. Our near term goal is to aggregate our network with a unified supply chain and deepen the impact by doubling the revenues.
Drishtee is a social enterprise that enables the community access to critical services and products, market linkages or channel support, Capital as well as Capacity Building support to the rural micro-entrepreneurs as well as community at large.
Drishtee identifies and creates a number of ‘milkman routes’ in a given district. Through each route, it caters to a minimum of 20 – 25 villages. As a social enterprise, Drishtee works towards creating an impact in villages by creating an eco-system of micro-enterprises run by entrepreneurs with a specific focus on women. We identify a number of potential entrepreneurs and train them on the specific skill sets required.In each route, Drishtee provides a sound kiosk-based platform to deliver services such as Health, Education, Banking, Micro-finance, and livelihood services such as rural BPOs along with opportunities to provide market access and linkages for physical products such as eyeglasses, mobile phones and agricultural products.
For each franchisee and micro-enterprise, Drishtee implements various components for integrating the module in the existing eco-system. These include community sensitisation; needs assessment; service customisation; community mobilisation;promoting and initiating transactions and setting up back end processes and infrastructure.
Drishtee Foundation has developed Soochna Aapke Dwar which is a database driven software. It is a web-based repository of all schemes, Government/ NGO/Private, with details of procedures and documentation requirements. It is multi-lingual, both in input and output.
Each Samaj Shilpi will have access to the schemes of his/her state, via a front-end application on a smartphone or a tablet.
