#27 Amit Jain 🇮🇳 - Enabling rural women entrepreneurs in India to have decent livelihoods with Mitti Ke Rang

<p>🇮🇳 Amit Jain is the co-founder of Mitti Ke Rang, a social enterprise working towards generating livelihoods for women in India. They train women entrepreneurs to start small businesses and support them to sell their handicrafts across the country.&nbsp;</p><br><p>😄 Amit says he’s always happy - nothing can make him unhappy, except 2 things: when his customers are not satisfied, and when the women entrepreneurs don’t receive money on their bank accounts.</p><br><p>🙏 We discuss his journey escaping poverty, finding a decent job and building Mitti Ke Rang, his gratefulness to all the people who supported him throughout his life and his drive to give back to them.</p><br><p>💸 We go through the evolution of Mitti Ke Rang over the years, from a local charity project in Pune to a national organisation, and the transition from being donation-based to their current social enterprise model.</p><br><p>💪 Amit is a people’s person, always curious and questioning everything, a proud budget traveler and he’s also a good friend of Shomy (Episode 4 - I turned my pain into my life purpose) and Edward (Episode 19 - Financing grassroots innovators) ;)</p><br><p>❤️ <strong>TIMELINE:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>3’ - Fighting to get a first job</p><p>8’ - Starting Mitti Ke Rang to give back</p><p>18’ - Partnering with the right co-founder</p><p>20’ - If you have a problem, just try and fix it</p><p>28’- Keep being curious, keep learning and unlearning, keep connecting with people</p><p>42’ - Restarting Mitti Ke Rang from scratch to support grassroots women entrepreneurs and get money in their bank account</p><p>62’ - Mitti Ke Rang’s secret e-commerce recipe</p><p>74’ - Celebrating small victories</p><br><p>🗒️<strong> References:</strong></p><p>To order from Mitti Ke Rang and support them, it’s here: <a href="http://mittikerang.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://mittikerang.org/</a>.</p><p>Connect with Amit on LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/amit-jain-9a4699a3/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ht