The 9 Key facts about the growth of Industree Foundation: –

1. Mission and Focus: The regenerative economic transformation by the Industree Foundation works for India’s most vulnerable women. The women are empowered to build and scale up self-owned collective enterprises in sustainable natural fiber and regenerative agricultural value chains, such as banana, bamboo, and non-timber forest produce.
2. Market Access:  35 units have been established for women’s collectives and four producer companies where the entities are supplied with homewares and apparel meeting sustainable procurement standards to major global retailers like IKEA, H&M Home, Fabindia, and the Future Group.
3. Economic Empowerment: The ecosystem provides women with upskilling, capital, digital tools, and more. Around 500,000 lives have been impacted by ensuring more than 58 million USD cumulative market access.

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Equity, Gender, and Climate: The women are ensured access to work close to their homes, becoming a part of mainstream value chains, and contributing to climate-positive initiatives. A stronger voice leads to better health care, and improving educational outcomes for their children.

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Ownership and Confidence: A net-positive’s creative production value chains provide women with added confidence as societal agents of change.

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Collaborations: Various organizations such as USAID, HSBC, Target Foundation, British Asian Trust, and Mastercard Centre are the major collaborators for inclusive growth.

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Holistic Approach: The root causes of poverty are handled by creating an ownership-based, organized creative manufacturing ecosystem for micro-entrepreneurs.

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Producer Enterprises: Two profitable and globally compliant producer enterprises were incubated with GreenKraft Prod.Co.Ltd. for home accessories, and Ektha Apparel Prod.Co. Ltd. for apparel products.

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Vision: The company envisions a future where vulnerable women get access to enable ecosystem for sustainable livelihoods, and empowerment.

Transcription in English

Q: Tell us about your organization

We are from the Industry Foundation, Bangalore. We work with the rural people, women. We are manufacturing the banana, bamboo, saw leaf, and also the river grass products, which is 100% natural products, right?

And which is biodegradable 100% and which has even the saw leaf material and all, it’s 100% degradable and natural products. And we work with the rural people over different states in India, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra, & Odisha.

Q: What about the price?

We can discuss it later right. In a competitive price. We give them based on the customer requirement. So that can be negotiated further in the financing states.

Q: Target clients are big industry or smaller organizations?

It is a big industry. We are selling in lakhs also. Lakhs of quantities also we are selling. Even thousands of quantities also we are selling.