Project Sukanya Retail Chain by Women and WE Women Entrepreneurship

A Kolkata woman has launched a project to provide employment to poverty-ridden women.
Apartna Banerjee's Project Sukanya is essentially a chain of stores managed by women, selling wares made by them.
The mobile outlets are called 'Bou Carts' (daughter-in-law's carts) and are visible at key points in the city.
Women self-help groups in Purulia, Bankura, Birbhum and Burdwan Districts make products like terracotta sculptures, packaged spices and small gift items.

Activities

* Research on creating awareness of self help skill to the women of urban areas and all in rural areas
* Extend Marketing support
* Support the Entrepreneurs with Financial assistance of Nationalized Banks
* Manufacture the Counter on wheel for sale (BOU)
* Purchase products from the small scale entrepreneurs
* Carry on Quality Test of the samples
* Buy such products those are passed through quality test
* Give proper and genuine price to the entrepreneurs
* Sale at a genuine rate with minimum margin so that people across India can have genuine products at reasonable cost at their door steps
* Sincere effort in building largest retail chain in India
* Support the entrepreneurs those who sale the products
* Extend employment to those who will be involved in the entire process across India.
Contact

Project Sukanya - a Retail Chain by Women and WE Women Entrepreneurship,
a Mission of the Woman, an NGO at
77/1/C Christopher Road,
Kolkata - 700 046
(By the side of Beijing restaurant),
Phone : 93300 34217, 93300 34219, 23298934

City Office
2E Kedar Bose Lane, Kolkata - 700 025

Email : correspondence @ projectsukanya05.com

Website : http://www.projectsukanya05.com


http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/life/2008/04/11/stories/2008041150110400.htm

http://xlalumni.blogspot.com/2008/04/xlri-as-social-entrepreneurs-aparna.html

http://www.bangaloreinc.com/2008/04/13/project-sukanya-for-women/

Project Sukanya is a lesson in survival. ‘India’s first independent social entrepreneurship project for women’ is changing lives,
http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=237150

Presentation on "Providing Access to Market" at the National Conference on Social Entrepreneurship, XLRI on 1st February 2009 by Ms Aparna Banerjee, Founder & CEO - Project Sukanya

Indian Youth Climate Network

What is IYCN?

The Indian Youth Climate Network (IYCN) is a coalition uniting Indian youth and Indian youth oriented organisations who are concerned about climate change. We, as the future leaders of the country can generate awareness and establish consensus on what role India should play in the global debate, and how it should address domestic issues of climate justice and adaptation. It is a monumental effort but one with immense potential. IYCN works on three levels:

As a network of individuals allowing people to come together and interact at a grassroots level, form friendships and support each other. As a coalition of member and supporter groups who come under the umbrella group of IYCN, however maintain their autonomy, yet leverage off a national network of young people passionate about the environment and development. As a centralised organisation that runs its own programs and projects, accepts sponsorship and donations and forms partnerships and runs media campaigns.

The Indian Youth Climate Network (IYCN) was founded in March 2008. Since its inception the network has seen massive growth, starting from 3 people and today its reach spanning out hundreds and thousands of Indians all over the world. In its short period of existence, it has generated a lot excitement from youth and adults at the grassroots and is now present in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujurat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Goa, Jammu & Kashmir, Delhi, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Assam, Himachal Pradesh and are quickly moving into other regions of India.

Executive Directors

Deepa Gupta : deepa[at]iycn.in
Kartikeya Singh : kartikeya[at]iycn.in


Steering Committee

Abishek Bharadwaj (Volunteer coordinator) : abishek[at]iycn.in
Nishtha Prakash (Media & Publications coordinator) : nishtha[at]iycn.in
Samarjit Khanna (Climate Leadership Coordinator) : samarjit[at]iycn.in
Anu Verma (Campaigns Coordinator) : anuradha[at]iycn.in
Anoop Poonia (Corporate Relations Coordinator) : anoop[at]iycn.in
Rishab Khanna (Funding Coordinator) : rishab[at]iycn.in
Ruchi Jain (Agents of Change Coordinators) : ruchijain[at]iycn.in
Suren (Research Coordinator) : suren[at]iycn.in




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Regional Coordinators



Ahmadabad Coordinators

Poorva Lalbhai : g.poorva[at]gmail.com
Nitesh : whiznitesh[at]gmail.com


Baroda Coordinators

Kartik Madhira : kartikmadhira[at]gmail.com


Dehradun Coordinators

Anandita Tara Handoo (Coordinator) : nanduhandoo[at]gmail.com


Delhi Coodinators

Reva Prakash (Coordinator) : reva[at]iycn.in
Swati Jaiswal (Climate Leadership coordinator) : swati[at]iycn.in
Nikunj Jain (Volunteers Coordinator) : nikunj[at]iycn.in
Aditya Dhar (Projects Coordinator) : aditya[at]iycn.in
Leela Raina (Ecogroups coordinator) : leela[at]iycn.in


Hyderabad Coordinator

Chaitanya Kumar (Coordinator) : chaitanya[at]iycn.in


Jammu & Kashmir Coordinator

Ruqaya Jabeen : ruqayajabeen[at]gmail.com


Jharkhand Coordinators

Rohit Gupta (Coordinator) : rohit[at]iycn.in


Kerala Coordinators

Arun Raj : arunraj_ieee[at]yahoo.com
Varun Raj : varunraj_ieee[at]yahoo.com
Vishnu Prasad : vishnu[at]iycn.in


Kolkatta Coordinators

Ekta Kothari : ekothari[at]gmail.com
Vinay Jaju : vinay.jaju[at]gmail.com


Mumbai Coordinators

Vishwajit Singh (Co-coordinator) : vishwajit[at]iycn.in
Ruchi Jain (Co-coordinator - outgoing) : ruchijain[at]iycn.in
Swati Hingorani (Projects coordinator) : swatihingorani[at]iycn.in
Maitrayee (Climate leadership coordinator) : maitreyee[at]iycn.in
Aayush Makharia (Funding coordinator) : aayush[at]iycn.in
Ayesha (Eco-groups & partnerships coordinator) : ayesha[at]iycn.in
Shreyom (Volunteer coordinator) : shregz2[at]gmail.com


Pune Coordinators

Atul Gaikwad : atulishwargaikwad[at]ymail.com
Shrikant Belokar : sdbelokar[at]gmail.com
Shridhar : shridhareternity[at]yahoo.co.in


Rajasthan Coordinators

Sonali Singh (Co-coordinator) : singh_sonali2007[at]yahoo.com
Deepak Saini (Co-coordinator) : dsainiknp[at]gmail.com


Tamil Nadu Coordinators

Digu Aruchamy (Coimbatore) : digu[at]iycn.in
Siddharth Sareen (IIT Chennai) : sidsareen[at]gmail.com


Uttar Pradesh Coordinators

Neha Chaturvedi (Agra) : shoutforneha[at]gmail.com
Soumya Mohan (IIT Kanpur) : soumyamohan1988[at]gmail.com
Vivek Agarwal (IIT Kanpur) : vivek1989[at]gmail.com


http://www.iycn.in/steering_committee.htm

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