February 11, 2010
SocioEnviro, in association with Context India, has had weekly sessions with a large group of drivers from the Valmiki Nagar area of Bangalore. So far over 100 drivers have attended these sessions, leaders have been appointed amongst them and many have expressed their interest to avail of SocioEnviro’s services. We are creating groups of 5 drivers, much like the Self-Help Group Structure of Micro-Finance Institutions to enhance our control over drivers’ financial discipline. Also, our long term aim is empowerment of the auto-rickshaw driver community in every sense. This is where developing a powerful, independent and progressive-minded community – albeit a time-taking process – plays a stellar role.
February 8, 2010
The pilot phase of SocioEnviro’s business operations – 6 months starting from March, 2010 - is now almost completely funded. Our investors have expressed satisfaction at the progress made by SocioEnviro in its short lifespan so far. There is an air of excitement and expectation as the launch approaches. We are scouting for investors for the next round of funding for the scale-up phase and are in advanced stages of discussion with a number of them.
November 27, 2009
Willem Klaassen, Bram Klaassen and Lucas Colleye participated on a uniqueTuktuk race battle through India and Nepal to support different charities. Although this is a different Tuktuk race than the Hybrid Tuktuk race… this three friends got the support of Enviu! They spread the word of our project and they collect funds for our support!
The three were competing against 60 other teams. The goal of this race is to travel from the southwest of India to the Himalaya in Nepal in twelve days. On the 25th of September they had reached their goal. During their journey the met a lot of people and see the most strangest things like all sorts of animals crossing the road. After all, it sunds like a fantastic experience!
Read more about their adventures on:
www.tinyurl.com/canned-dutch-this
