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Acumen Fund is one of the leading investors in Drishtee. With Acumen Fund's investment, Drishtee is expanding its entrepreneur programmes to include a variety of health related services. Drishtee also increases the overall number of entrepreneurs and the geographic coverage.
Acumen Fund has also availed structured loans made to Drishtee Foundation, a not-for profit trust to support rural entrepreneurs by providing them with micro-credit. |
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| The Amaron Hi-life automotive battery is a product that incorporates the latest technological advances in the field and is at par with developed countries. Drishtee has partnered with Amara Raja to distribute Amaron batteries in rural India. |
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| In 2008, Drishtee Foundation has made a three year commitments to enabling Education and Livelihood for 2 million rural families; provide banking and micro-finance services to 10.5 million families; and provide basic health care for 1 million rural families. In this regard, Drishtee has received a citation and a plaque. |
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| The International Finance Corporation's (IFC) Grassroots Business Initiative (GBI) has provided Drishtee with grant funding to reinforce and scale up its network of entrepreneurs. |
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| IFMR Trust had partnered with Drishtee Foundation to pilot a kiosk based individual lending model for financial services delivery through entrepreneur owned kiosks. |
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| Drishtee Foundation has partnered with MicroSave to create right systems and processes for its micro-finance vertical. MicroSave is a team of experienced professionals that has been operating for ten years and is 'the most reliable consulting firm for financial service providers'. |
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| Microsoft has been one of the leading partners of Drishtee. It has partnered with Drishtee on different innovative projects. Some of the projects include, Delivering rural e-Commerce and e-Health in rual villages using tablet PC, Penetration of ICT in rural India, ICT Kiosk pilot in West Bengal, etc. |
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| Drishtee has assisted the Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Government of India for ICT Segmentation of 2488 Gram Panchayats in Assam. Drishtee Foundation had developed the 'ICT Segmentation Model' for this study. |
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| Recently, Drishtee has entered into a partnership with Nestle India to create a rural supply chain network in India. Initially, Nestle India is leveraging Drishtee's rural retail network to sell its products and understand the rural needs. |
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| Nike Foundation has supported Drishtee to enable women entrepreneurs in rural India. Through this partnership, the percentage of women entrepreneurs has increased from 10% to 30%. |
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| Novartis is an innovative healthcare products company with pharmaceutical treatments for heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, etc. Recently, Novartis has entered into a partnership with Drishtee to provide quality health care services to rural India. |
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| Oikocredit is one of the world's largest sources of private funding to the micro-finance sector. Oikocredit has supported Drishtee Foundation with working capital for micro-finance. In turn, Drishtee disburse life-changing loans to the poor and disadvantaged in rural India. |
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| Scojo Foundation was established by the partners of Scojo Vision, LLC. Drishtee and Scojo devised a process through which they train local entrepreneurs to perform basic eye test and sell low-cost reading glasses. |
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| telecentre.org is one of the valued partners of Drishtee. It has supported Drishtee on different innovative projects. The telecentre.org supported Drishtee to setup rural BPOs in Saurath village of Bihar. |
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| Drishtee had partnered with Universal Specs (U-Specs), a Dutch based company in partnership with Philips India to develop adjustable eye glasses to low income group at affordable prices. |
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ACC Limited is India’s foremost cement manufacturer with a countrywide network of factories and marketing offices. Established in 1936, ACC has been a pioneer and trend-setter in cement and concrete technology. Among the first companies in India to include commitment to environment protection as a corporate objective, ACC has been highly appreciated and won accolades for its environment friendly measures taken at its plants and mines.
Drishtee and ACC have joined hands to train unskilled masons through a “Masonry skills development program”. The trained masons would be certified by ACC and Drishtee as they also handhold them for placements with the local or central level sites or builders. The program is also a part of the Drishtee Community College (a part of IGNOU's Community College Program) as a non-credit 'Participatory Program'. It includes training on various masonry skills as well as personality development. |
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Drishtee has partnered with the Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD), one of the most important and prestigious departments of the Government of India which oversees the development of rural areas in the country. Drishtee has undertaken to train 13,000 rural youth from Below Poverty Line (BPL) segment, under the program SGSY (Special Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana). The project is being implemented in two different states, U.P. and Bihar, being supported by Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India and Department of Rural Development, Government of Bihar, respectively. The objective is to move these youth and their families to the Above Poverty Line (APL) segment through skills development and placement / livelihood support.
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