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Harkaman Tamang

Organic Mushroom Farmer

Harkaman, a winner of Project Gazaab's business competition in 2010, is now onto his 3rd Mushroom farm. He has even expanded his product offering by cultivating white button mushrooms and shitake mushrooms in addition to oyster mushrooms.

With the extra earnings he's able to send his siblings to school and put himself through college.

"I want to help other students do what I did and help them get to where I am. This way, I can play a small part in the development of Nepal"

Local Community Initiatives:

Skills development program for poor farmers to learn how to farm mushrooms in order to obtain higher yields from their land.
Organic mushroom farming for environment & health

These entrepreneurs are winners of a Gazaab Social Ventures business competition and are recipients of an equity investment from Gazaab Social Ventures. They will repay a percentage of their profits every business cycle where we can then recycle the money and re-invest in entrepreneurs in the next competition, establishing a sustainable economic development cycle based on entrepreneurship.

Gazaab Social Venture's Entrepreneurs

Project Gazaab

Gazaab Social Ventures

Sabita Maharjan

Knitting Factory

Sabita founded Kirtipur Hosiery Industries, a knitting outfit providing employment to more than 125 single women (widows / victims of domestic violence).

Once a victim of domestic violence herself, Sabita hopes that with employment, the women would be empowered, both economically and mentally, and be able to build a better future for themselves & their family.

Local Community Initiatives:

A shelter for 125 Single women at Kirtipur Hosiery Industry where they can rely on a steady source of income to support their families.
Adult literacy trainings - free education in skills, English, health & computer knowledge.
Monthly cleaning campaigns for the local community.
Financial education & savings plan for each of the 125 women under KHI.

Sita Tamang

Candle-maker

An exceptionally hardworking individual, Sita had the highest number of transactions done while playing the Gazaab Game.

Making each candle for 4Rs & selling for 5Rs, Sita started with just 5 candles with the 20Rs given. At the end however, she has made & sold more than 200, making the same amount in profits. While she didn't win, which is determined by amount of profits, she definitely wins the most hardworking participant award.

Starting her candlemaking business for less than 5,000Rs a few years ago, her hardwork has paid off and she is now at a stage where she requires expansion capital to improve quality & variety, something Gazaab can help with.

Local Community Initiatives:

Support the local bee industry with specialization in the production of bee wax
Support unemployed women in her community with training and employment.
Set up a vocational school for women in her community so that they can stand on their own two feet.

Sagar Poudyal

Pest Control

No one deserves to live with pests, not even the poor. That is the vision of Mr Sagar Poudyal, a skilled & experienced pest control expert. Sagar is looking to set up a Pest control company that provides services and low cost solutions for the poor.

Many people at the Bottom of the Pyramid face battles with pests daily, due to poor living conditions and inadequate sanitation facilities. This daily struggle, while a simple annoyance to the well-off, can be deadly to the poor. Poor health are caused by the transmission of diseases by these pests, and they lead to hefty medical bills and days of unproductivity which is crucial to the survival of people in poverty. With Sagar’s intention to create affordable solutions, we hope everyone would be able live without the problems of pests.

Local Community Initiatives:

Train and employ disadvantaged people
Cleaning up campaigns for slums.
Research & Development of more low-cost solutions
Provide low cost pest control solutions to the poor farmers of Nepal’s agricultural sector.