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Milaap enables you to lend to India's working poor so they can get access to education, clean water, safe lighting and more.
A small loan goes a long way. And comes back to you.
field partners
Guardian
India's first and only microfinance institution with an exclusive focus on water and sanitation, Guardian provides credit for household piped water connections, toilets, water purifiers and innovative solutions based on local demands and constraints. Today it has disbursed loans of around USD 3 million for over 18,000 water and sanitation facilities, widening its presence to more than 150 villages in nine districts.
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Sakhi Samudaya Kosh (SSK) and Sakhi Retail
SSK focuses on providing credit for livelihood needs such as education, water and sanitation. It also trains and assists women micro-entrepreneurs through its sister organisation Sakhi Retail that delivers life-changing products and services, including smokeless stoves, solar heaters, and organic fertilisers for rural households.
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Industree Crafts Foundation (ICF)
Industree Crafts Foundation is a fair-trade certified, social enterprise that connects artisans and agricultural workers with the urban market. ICF has a network of over 5000 artisans across 8 states in India, to whom it provides end-to-end integration: from manpower training, raw material sourcing, product design and development, to marketing at fair trade prices through 'Mother Earth', its chain of retail stores.
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GRAVITY
GRAVITY is a joint social venture between Grameen Koota and Vidya Poshak, a leading vocational training and skills development institute. GRAVITY aims at building a robust and sustainable model of social empowerment through reduced unemployment. Grameen Koota, one of India's leading MFIs provides credit to dynamic youngsters for vocational training.
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Dhosa Chandaneswar Bratyajana Samity (DCBS)
Dhosa Chandaneswar Bratyajana Samity (DCBS) is a not-for-profit society based in West Bengal that has been working in the microfinance and integrated women’s development sector for around eight years. The focus is on zero-budget natural farming, public health, adult education apart from rural electrification. Working in the district of South 24 Parganas, DCBS has disbursed over 10,000 loans to women across 160 villages to date. DCBS has tied up with ONergy and Milaap to bring lighting to households in rural West Bengal.
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Safehands
Safe Hands Multipurpose Co-Op Society Limited was set up in Hubli in 2011 to cater for multiple credit requirements of people. The Society has a large member base and provides low cost financing for multiple financing purposes. Education is a strong focus area, in which Safe Hands has been financing skill-development and vocational education for nearly a year. It provides education loans at approximately 13% for course fees, boarding, and other miscellaneous expense for the coursework. The Society is managed by an excellent professional team from various fields, and is committed to serving credit needs in the region.
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Medskills
MedSkills is a vocational and skills development program for the healthcare industry leading to employment backed up by certification from a Government of India Initiative. The training program addresses knowledge and skills required for getting a career started in the healthcare sector. The modules cover both technical and communication skills that are essential to success in the industry. Intensive courses, which focus on computer based training, are offered for two months, followed by On The Job training in select hospitals. Vocational Job-Oriented Courses such as 'Healthcare Coordinator', 'Laboratory Assistant', and 'ECG Assistant' and more courses bridge the gap and ensure employability with leading hospitals, private nursing homes, self employment, and for pharma companies.
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Esaf
ESAF (Evangelical Social Action Forum) is a national development organization established in 1992 by a group of professionals with the vision of sustainable holistic transformation of the poor and the marginalized and thereby envisioning a just and fair society. The main focus of ESAF is micro enterprise/ finance development, sustainable health, human resource development, child development programme, disaster mitigation and management, advocacy and networking. Nirmal Jeevandhara Project is an initiative of ESAF to assist communities to access to individual water connections and toilets. The programme is currently operating in Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh states in India. The goal of this project is to promote an environment of sustainable drinking water both in terms of availability and accessibility, and sanitation improvement managed through active people’s participation.
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Gramalaya Microfin Foundation (GMF)
Gramalaya Microfin Foundation (GMF) is a microfinance organization in Trichy, Tamil Nadu. While GMF offers a host of loan products, Milaap works exclusively with GMF to promote their integrated program for training and launching rural entrepreneurs. The program starts when individuals interested in becoming skilled entrepreneurs sign up for GMF’s GREAT (Gramalaya Entrepreneurs Associates, Tamil Nadu) training program. During training, individuals choose one of 12 income generating life skills to learn. Participants in this program are then connected to a larger wholesalers or brand names for secure sale of their products.
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TalentSprint
TalentSprint, a National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) partner company, is a leader in creating skilled and certified professionals for the global industry through fast track SPRINT IT programs. Focused on the Information Technology and Banking sectors, TalentSprint's skill development programs are designed by industry experts and backed by international certified training courses. Since 2009 TalentSprint has successfully skilled 3000+ professionals in IT and Banking. The company has a corporate partner network of 100 companies. It is also implementing a network of centres across select IT colleges so that engineering students can be fully skilled and certified for industry-readiness before they graduate.
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