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Journey of experiment with reforms began with "Drishti" and now next experiment is about to shape up.With God's Grace "Disha" a mission for socio-economic development of unpriviledge sections of the society is going to be registered in next few days.Disha as a whole will be begning its operation as two fold organisations.
1) Disha- A Social Enterprise- which will be registered under Indian companies act 1956.It will be a profit making venture dealing with handicrafts. Being Social enterprise parallely it will be distributing a part of profit to the artisans who are currently being exploited by middle men. Remaining part of the profit will be diverted to the second arm of Disha-the development agency. Need for establishment of the arm- Social Enterprise was felt as NGO/development agencies which are dependent upon external funding fully usually face fund crises and thereby development work takes a back seat and sustainability of the organisation becomes the top priority.So This Social enterprise will be the direct and dependable source of funding for development wing of Disha.
2) Disha- A development agency wil be registered as under Indian SOciety act 1860 and will be a development agency cum NGO. Intially we are targetting four comapritively poorer states of India- Bihar,Jharkhand,Chattishgarh and Orissa. Working would be based at Ranchi. Major work areas would be microfinance,education, Model Village development, child beggar issue, orphans and at later phases would be diversifying the areas.
As on date we are team of three people with Suman Kumar and Shashank Pandey. We will be in need of great moral support from your end.
If Every thing goes fine Disha will soon become a catalyst to support the development of millions.