Neelam Chhiber of Mother Earth Awarded Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2011 for India

Neelam Chhiber of Mother Earth Awarded Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2011 for India

The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, in partnership with the Jubilant Bhartia Foundation, has announced that Neelam Chhiber is the winner of the India Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2011. Prithvi Raj Chavan, Chief Minister of Maharashtra and Ashwani Kumar, Minister of State for Planning, Science and Technology & Earth Sciences handed the award to the winner in Mumbai. Mother Earth triples incomes of marginal artisans by moving them from being „piece rate workers to owners and entrepreneurs of grassroots community enterprises. It works both at the production and market ends of complex supply chains and has impacted more than 10,000 artisans living below the poverty line, by putting them in charge of their own enterprises. Read more on thinkchangeindia.org
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