SSF Storyline

SKILLED SAMARITAN FOUNDATION - a journey -

Individuals who take their own path and listen to their inner calling have often been empowered with an ability to effect real change in society.

My research on the success of Microcredit Provision led me to an internship with a a small NGO in Trujillo, Peru.

In 2008, I was completing my masters in Finance and Economics from the University of Warwick, and had three months to complete my dissertation.

2008 - 2010

AND INTERNSHIPS

After this unique experience, i knew I wanted to keep the rush of what I had done alive and effect sizeable change in India.

Although the sequential lifestyle we led pressured me into a job with a bank, my internship in Peru gave me an edge during my job hunt.

Increasingly numbed by the monotomy of an investment banking job, I quit.

I eventually worked with Deutsche Bank for two years.

2010 - 2012

SKILLED SAMARITAN FOUNDATION IS ESTABLISHED

Drawing from the confidence and insight Peru had given me, I founded Skilled Samaritan Foundation.

Skilled Samaritan’s initial projects focused on lighting villages using solar power.

We lit almost three villages and ten schools in Haryana and Uttar Pradesh.

2013 - 2015

THE FOUNDATION’S INITIAL PROJECTS

2015

Chocolate wrappers

A CULTURE OF MAKE-DO AND MEND

Shampoo bottle wrappers

These communities are governed by traditional norms; the women are subject to age old customs that include child marriage,financial dependency on the patriarch of the family, lack of work opportunitites and social practices that prevent the women from working.

The Charpoy

Rope

During my time in these villages I noticed that the charpoys they were sitting on were made from candy, chocolate wrappers and other waste material. I realized that there was an opportunity there.

Consequently, the foundation’s foucus in 2018 moved to working with women from the same communities to provide employment and utilize their existing skill-sets of charpoy weaving.

Muzaffarnagar District

Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh

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Budhina Kalan

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CONNECTING WITH LOCAL COMMUNITIES

SSF has built a strong bond with the communitties to understand innate and existingskill sets and ways in which we can leverage their skills to create models of employment, and help them gain financial independence.

By providing artisans a global platform to market their products ,we intend to create a model of sustainable income and employment.

NOV - 2018

CREATING A WORKFORCE

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We aim to revive age old forms of weaving and furniture styles that originated in India almost 5000 years ago.

By encourageing the revival of traditional craft to hand craft functional yet beautiful pieces and products of every day use items, and recognizing skill sets of artisans from our exisiting project sites, we aim to create a model of holistic c o m m u n i t y development.

2018 - 2019

SUSTAINABLE DESIGN PRACTICE

By reusing industrial trimmings and plastic packaging waste including FMCG (MLP Plastics) and textile waste from local boutiques, ropes are made which are hand - woven into products.

Our design approach involves the sustainable use of local materials keeping in mind India’s diverse‘weave’ heritage, where we use the ‘charpai’ style of weaving to handcraft our products.

2018 - 2019

SUSTAINABLE DESIGN PRACTICE

Our products include a myriad of fashion, furniture and lifestyle accessories of diverse scales and use. Ranging from installations and screen dividers, benches, charpoys, tables and stools, storage boxes and trunks, to baskets and trays, we aim to address the needs of our users in multiple locations and with respect to diverse spatial considerations.

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Skilled Samaritan Foundation functions on a model supporting a circular economy and zero-waste design process by recycling household and fibre industrial waste that adversely affects extraction the environment, creating long-lasting, detrimental effects and irreversible changes to the regions natural resources.

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SSF CORE VALUES

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By upcycling waste material into usable ropes, we tackle local and regional textile and plastic pollution which sales reduces COs emissions. With a production capacity of 1500 products per month requiring 4 work hours per product, we aim to increase employment from 100 to 50,000 artisans from 235 villages by 2025.

Projection 2022/25

300,000

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2019

100,000

2018 (3 months)

50,000

Increase in demand creates a ripple effect which will consequentially increase the amount of waste upcycled and employment.

2018

2018 (3 months)

2019

2019

women employed - 120 women employed - 3 products sold - 1500 products sold - 35 waste upcycled - 250 kgs waste upcycled - 15,000 kgs revenue - Rs. 2,50,000 revenue - Rs. 90,000

2020

2021

2022

Projection 2022/25 women employed - 1500 products sold - 42,000 waste upcycled - 2,50,000 kgs revenue - Rs. 8,50,00,000

... 2025

GROWTH AND PROJECTIONS

Credible income opportunities with returns decreases unemployment, and the crime rate of the region. By prioritisig socio-economic requirements in the region, crafting solutions and and fast tracking their implementation, we aim to achieve income equality and increase the quality of life of our artisans.

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Our approach includes setting up Skill Labs in the vicinity of 15 villages to centralise operations and production, bridging the gap between the rural and urban contexts in the supply chain.

villages near Muzaffarnagar

With CSR partnerships, we aim to generate funding to set up 3 Skill Labs. By collaborating with industrial packaging units we intend to use their waste to create designer products.

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2019 - 2020

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Skilled Samaritan Foundation is a social enterprise which aims to support and consolidate a range of individuals and collectives with varied skill sets and areas of expertise.

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2019 - 2020

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NETWORK OF SKILLED SAMARITANS

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The different stages of the design process involves various skilled rope making professionals who collectively participate in the creation of a well crafted product. Together, these skilled samaritans are committed to upholding the values of this enterprise for a sustainable future.

2020 - 2025

LOCAL TO GLOBAL OUTREACH