EMPOWERS THE POOREST TO CREATE LIVELIHOODS, BOOST INCOME AND INSPIRE PERMANENT CHANGE
Together We Can Make Difference
Nirdhan, a not-for-profit charitable organisation was founded in 2011 and started by working with the poorest of poor people in the rural areas of West Bengal. We provided livelihood promotion programme through backyard poultry farming to the men and women of the villages who were below the poverty line according to international standards.
Nirdhan team is working with over 23,000 very poor home-farmers/households across 5 locations involving 1,700 villages and 115,000 family members and have a total team of 45.
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SOME OF OUR FARMERS
KALYANI
Kalyani is 30 and married with two children aged 8 and 10 years. She started her poultry enterprise with Nirdhan in May 2015 and since then has built a smallKAMALA
Kamala is 36 and has three children, one of whom has a brain tumour. Her husband is a daily-wage labourer and prior to her poultry enterprise with Nirdhan their householdAKINA
Akina is 50 and is married with seven daughters. She and her husband Hajrat used to work as agricultural labourers, earning about Rs.100/- each per day. Hajrat also owns aNISHIKANTA
Nishikanta is 45 and he registered for AMS in June 2014. He has a small plot of land, part of which he leases to another local farmer, as he couldWhat People Say ?
Love the format of the Annual Review…so nice to look at with the photos and comments. I can imagine that took ages to format…you’ve done a brilliant job on it!
Sara Raisbeck
Friend of Shivia
What a wonderful document and so beautifully put together. Well done to you and your team. Having visited India myself and seen the poverty, I can fully comprehend the impact Nirdhan has on the lives of the people in the projects. I’m sure The Annual Review will get very positive results.
Lesley Chapman
Manager, Maxwell & Co Accountants
It was a great pleasure to be involved in Nirdhan at the early stages and we are very proud at the Apax Foundation that we were. We picked Nirdhan primarily because we were impressed with Olly – impressed with her enthusiasm, impressed with what she had done, impressed with her ideas and she just gave a really dynamic presentation about what she wanted to achieve in India and what she saw Nirdhan becoming.
PETER ENGLANDER
CO-CEO, THE APAX FOUNDATION