The Company
ekgaon services have enriched lives of over a million rural households in India alone over the last thirteen years of efforts. ekgaon is a unique 'For Profit' social enterprise focussed on providing utility services for farmers, rural businesses, under-served rural women and the large urban migrant labour population of aspiring consumer. It is the first company to provide mobile phone enabled financial services delivery platform in South Asia. Its market connect platform ekgaon.com provides high quality 'Direct from Farm Produce' that is healthy, organic certified and naturally grown from farms of small farmers to urban customers. The company is headquarters in New Delhi with its regional regional office in Madurai (Tamil Nadu) and Mandla (Madhya Pradesh) in India.
One Village One World Network
The ekgaon OneVillageOneWorld Network is a platform for leveraging mobile communication technology for encouraging sustainable development of women-self-help-groups (SHGs) and small farmers across India. The platform has over 9,00,000 women and 3,00,000 farmers spread across villages of India.
Co-Founder CEO & Director
Co-Founder
Director
Advisor Convergence, Programme, Projects & Policy at ekgaon
ekgaon's co-founder/Director and Chief Executive Officer, Vijay Pratap Singh Aditya, has been named Ashoka-Lemelson Fellow in 2008. Ashoka Fellows are fellows for life. The list includes leading social entrepreneurs who are recognized to have evolved innovative solutions to social problems that have potential to change patterns across society. Ashoka Fellows work in over 60 countries around the globe in every area of human need. The list includes Muhammad Yunus-Founder, Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, Anil Agrawal-Founder, Centre for Science and Environment in India, Victoria Hale-Founder, OneWorld Health in USA, amongst others.
"The real impact for us is...when our farmers see a better and healthy crop, enhanced income and improved livelihoods and consumers
getting a good quality, healthy farm produce which is..... Direct from Farm"
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"The real impact for us... genuine smiles of the SHG members and a lifelong empowerment backed by financial literacy training...
with a little help of our mobile applications and financial services platform"
To know more please write to us
