Archives: Our Team

19 years old Bano Fatima, enrolled for Entrepreneurs for Tomorrow Program organised by Dhriiti.  

while pursuing her Bachelor’s in Political Science at Delhi’s Lady Shriram College.  

After graduation, Bano pursued her project the EOT Program and collaborated with Nabila Kidwai to establish Weavers Hut, with the aim to strike at the root of social discrimination and economic exploitation that is experienced by the artisans. 

Weaver’s Hut is a social enterprise dedicated to empowering artisan communities in the Barabanki district of Uttar Pradesh. Weaver’s Hut was formed to work with vulnerable families, primarily women on their socio-economic development and also to promote education for the future generations. 

The weavers’ community weaves cotton and viscose fabric and stoles using the handloom structures. It is a traditional art, existing in the community for generations. With textile mills taking the lead and lack of support from government, the traditional art suffers from intense competition, often losing out.  

Today, with support from Dhriiti, Weaver’s Hut has become the platform that is empowering the weavers’ community through socio-economic interventions, including production process interventions, social development and education based-initiatives. 

Aditi Rao is a writer, educator, and dreamer. Being an intrepid traveller, her essays and poetry reflect the stories of travels and her stay in different countries of the world. Passionate about peace, education and working with young people, especially teenagers, Aditi strongly believes in the transformative power of imagination and community.  

Tasawwur was founded in 2014 with the firm objective to impact the lives of youth through artistic processes and  meaningful cross cultural relationships. Tasawwur is a a unique arts-for-social-change program that works with a diverse group of teenagers in New Delhi, using the literary and performing arts to address important issues of social justice. 

Tasawuur uses arts to supports marginalised youth to explore, helping them discover their unique voices and stories. They simultaneously create an atmosphere of care and respect for the voices and stories of others, and ultimately use their collective voice to effect positive change in the world. 

In the incubation program of Dhriiti, support is being provided to develop business, organisational and marketing models. Dhriiti is also focussing on bringing out the innate financial, social, and ecological components of Tasawwur,  as imagined by Aditi. Aditi aims to youth use literary & performing arts as a tool to educate the youth on important issues of social justice. 

She is young and energetic. She has been in the developmental sector long enough to be exposed to a lot of existing social issues. During one such work experience, Yuveka Singh was essentially fascinated by the power of storytelling, mythology and old tales had on children.  

Storytelling was an exploration for herself and she explored both the theory and practical nuances of storytelling. Soon she landed in Delhi, and felt the strong urge to tell stories of Delhi. But these would not be just stories, Yuveka wanted to create an aura of experience for her audience. And hence Yuveka, conceived the idea of Darwesh.  

Darwesh curates unique and engaging walks and tours for travellers that preserves and showcases the heritage and culture of a city. An intrinsic quality of these performances, is the local flavour with the “behrupiyas”, walks around the nooks and corners of the city, interactions with local communities, explorations of lesser known monuments and streets, performances by theatre, folk and other traditional artists. 

Dhriiti is currently working with Yuveka to re-model Darwesh’s organizational and marketing strategy and implementation. The incubation process is helping her to develop a FSE-ible model with better systems for implementation, organization development, and a robust value chain. Under Dhriiti’s guidance Yuveka is now looking into activities like promoting awareness on conservation of natural resources including the river Yamuna and also awareness promotion on the preservation of architectural heritage including cultural & historical heritage.  

Since childhood, Susant Chakma form Arunachal Pradesh, dreamt of providing quality education to children. In 1994, the ban on education to the Chakma and Hajong children by the State govt. concretised his dream. He realised that education is the tool to build the capacity and confidence of child, who intern brings about a positive ripple effect in the society.  

With this strong belief, SNEHA was formed. SNEHA is an NGO, focussed on supporting the underprivileged society to attain quality education. In July 2003, with the support of National Foundation for India (NFI), SNEHA started its first school at Diyun in Changlang District in Arunachal Pradesh. 

Dhriiti provided a comprehensive enterprise incubation service which helped SNEHA in measuring and enhancing their strength by studying existing system. Dhriiti also analyzed SNEHA’s leadership; audited and recommended changes in financial, administrative, communication and fundraising system; developed organization strategic plans for financial, project management, HR & Admin system. 

At present, SNEHA is running 3 schools at Diyun, Bijoypur and Dharampur of Changlang District of Arunachal Pradesh and providing value based education to more than 1100 students from underprivileged communities. To impart education and create a profound impact on the lives of the children, SNEHA today is supporting students with scholarships to pursue post-graduation 

His heart runs faster than his mind. With such strong emotions in his heart, Sem Haokip envisioned ELIM, an organization that enables the poor to generate sustainable income by linking their indigenous skills & local resources to markets. 

Sem sees ELIM as a means to restore self dignity and community life by connecting the existing market channels with the vibrant culture, handicrafts and cultivation in rural Manipur. His inner compass moves him towards creating an impact that positively affects in the lives of others. 

Dhriiti is working with Sem to transform his vision into a financially viable, ecologically sustainable and socially impactful enterprise. The incubation process involves a FSE-ible model with systems for implementation, organization development, and a robust value chain. In support with Dhriiti SEM is working on a zero-waste-multi purpose food processing unit. Sem is also working with conflict ridden communities promoting employment and sustainable livelihood through crafts and culture. 

Born in a humble family, Amit Kataria always dreamt of changing the society. He dreamt of bridging the gap in computer education and changing the rural populace’s mindset. His growing up in a rural setting of old Gurgaon and his walking disability never became impediments for his dreams. 

Amit promoted ROSE Academy when he was only 19 years old.Very early in life he had realised that most villagers owned land and money but lacked literacy especially computer skills. They were  also ignorant of the need for computer skills and the transformations that computer skills could bring in their lives. 

Amit believed that, “Rural Organisation for Social Empowerment (ROSE), run by villagers, provides computer skills to rural population to enable them to get employment, access better opportunities and use technology to save money and time.” 

Dhriiti worked closely with Amit on organisation development and preparing ROSE for its expansion. The team supported Amit to develop on key areas like systems development, consolidation of each of the six centers, development of promotion and marketing strategy, and a clear human resource management. This resulted in a business model which had a striking balance in its financial, social and ecological impact. This allowed ROSE to achieve its vision of providing computer education in all villages in rural Haryana. 

Today he uses NComputing device in ROSE Academy centers which saves more energy. ROSE Academy has a high record of 80% girl students enrolment. ROSE Academy successfully uses internet technology to save time and energy. Presently Amit continues to successfully transform the lives of many in his village by imparting computer literacy and in the process, setting a precedence worth following. 

One is a keen student of Public Policy in the North East and another is an advocate of education & organic farming of North East. But what binds them is their decade long friendship, passion towards organic farming and drive to “enable unemployed youth to become farm & food entrepreneurs and build a peaceful and prosperous North East” 

With this burning passion, Deep Jyoti Sonu and his friend, started their entrepreneurial journey to transform farming into a viable and sustainable livelihood in North East India. Farm2Food was founded with the objective of working towards redefining agriculture by promoting organic farming methods among the farmers of North East India. This ensures food security and most importantly saves the farmers from the adverse effects of chemical farming. Farm to Food on one hand creates marketing opportunities for the farmer and on the other hand supports the farmer on farming, plant health and organic agricultural inputs. Thus it is a one stop solution for the farmer working on the forward and backward linkages.  

Farm2Food began with a team of committed individuals and experts coming together to set up a model that could offer organic farming training, marketing linkages, and community development in the rural Assam. 

Dhriiti has worked closely worked with the duo to re-model their business, organizational and market models, and set up systems and processes for an effective operational strategy. The resulting FSE-ible models has enabled the organization to promote entrepreneurship in farming amongst farmers, women and young people on a large scale. 

During my bachelors in economics and my higher studies in Rural Management from Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar; economic development and well-being of the people had slowly become my passion.

After my studies I initially took a campus placement in a reputed development sector organization, however I was very restless about the fact that young people like us with management degrees were waiting for the government and others to create jobs for us or to initiate and implement the changes we wanted in the society and economy of our country. I became an entrepreneur to live my dream and to motivate/instigate hundreds and thousands of other young people to their dreams and create a better world.

I wanted to do it myself in whatsoever small way I could make a change in the system, in people’s mindsets and the country’s future. I wanted to reach out to the youth in my country in the villages and in cities to share my dream of an entrepreneurial and economically robust nation state and I became an entrepreneur to do the same..