Sunday, September 04, 2011

Social entrepreneurs covered in I have a dream

I bought the audio cd of the book(here is the paperback version) by mistake but Flipkart refused to replace it with the book- so much for their famed customer service. This coming after they refused to replace the phone which was not working on delivery - had to take it to the MicroMax service center myself. Flipkart - bad service :-(

So I am forced to listen to the audio CD. I feel that 4 of the stories are very boring may be because of the haphazard stories or because they are way too long :

  1. Parivaar Ashram (Vinayak Lohani)
  2. BPA (Bhushan Punani)
  3. Akansha Foundation (Shaheen Mistry)
  4. Pratham


Here is the list of Social entrepreneurs and their ventures covered in I have a dream.


  1. Sulabh Internaional (Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak) - Needs no Introduction.
  2. Conserve India (Anita Ahuja) - Something about helping rag pickers.
  3. Avishkar (Vineet Rai) - A venture fund for socially relevant causes.
  4. RangSutra (Sanjoy Ghose & Sumita Ghose) - Connecting village artisans to markets.
  5. DesiCrew (Saloni Malhotra) - Rural BPO
  6. Ecosphere Spiti (Ishita Khanna) - Travel,adventure & Eco-tourism in Himalayas, started with Sea-buckthorn
  7. Selco (Harish Hande)- Solar energy systems on a mass scale.
  8. Pipal Tree Ventures (Santosh Parulekar) - Providing vocational training for the skills in the construction industry to unemployed youths in the rural area.
  9. Project Chilika (Dinbandhu Sahoo) - Seaweed cultivation/Ocean farming in Orissa. Taught villagers ocean weed farming as opposed to aqua farming(fish cultivation) as it doesn't destroy ecological balance.
  10. Super30 (Anand Kumar) - IIT JEE coaching for underprivileged.
  11. Mirakle Couriers (Dhruv Lakra) - A courier agency that employs low-income deaf adults. Dhruv also worked in Dasra - an NGO and Merrill lynch before. Also got Echoing Green fellowship and N.C.P.E.D.P. Shell Helen Keller Award 2009.
  12. Shreesh Jadhav - Monk, Belur Math
  13. Parivaar ashram (Vinayak Lohani) - A residential place for orphans,tribals and children of prostitutes. Supported by (Ramesh Kacholiya) Mumbai Group of Friends.
  14. Madhu Pandit Dasa - President of ISKCON Bangalore
  15. Goonj (Anshu Gupta) - Through systematic collection, sorting and delivery Goonj reaches every scrap of waste clothing from urban India to someone out there. To use with dignity, wear with pride.
  16. Parivartan (Arvind Kejriwal) - Needs no Introduction.
  17. Blind People's Association (Dr. Bhushan Punani)
  18. Akanksha Foundation and Teach for India (Shaheen Mistry) - Teaching the less privileged.
  19. Pratham(Madhav Chavan) -  a network of non-governmental organisations that promote primary education for disadvantaged children.
  20. Association for Democratic Reforms (Trilochan Sastry)

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