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Barefoot Venture Capitalism

Gargi of POV write about her new documentary shoot.

Cogito TV - my company - has just been commissioned a documentary film. I will be out filming in remote districts of Maharashtra. I take off on Monday to the back fo beyond and am thrilled to bits.

The documentary is on the work of a charity called TDSS. There are three projects we will be filming:

Barefoot Venture Capitalism - an amazing story about how a group of destitute women got together and raised some collateral. TDSS gave them a pregnant goat. This was three years ago. today every woman in the group owns atleast two goats. and the one goat has become 270 goats. Additionally the women have also raised cash capital that - as opposed to goat capital - they are using to help build a school for their kids

Literacy - The other two projects are literacy projects that are implemented via balwadis serving the Padari and the Lamani tribes. Again a degree of innovation in thinking that is so far removed from corporate/government life. Over here - twin language text books are the norm. On one side is a visual with descriptor in Marathi, on the other in Padari or Lamani. Kids retention and success has increased

Visiting her blog is always a pleasant experience for me, I find a very learned, critical and daring posts there.