My First Day With RangDe.

May 20th


The day started of with mom yelling at me and i realized that i was sleeping with one of my legs on the Keyboard ...:) Luckily the keyboard still works..:)..

the sky looked dark cos of LAILA..:) and i slept for like another hour..:) then got up to check if the movie's i was downloading was over and i realised i got a mail and i checked the mail . and i realized that i had to meet Ram at 11 in his Rangde office... i was all excited but the name Tnagar just gave me a slight shiver cos i have never been to that part of Chennai.

But there's always a savior i have on the net so i googled the address and i got the perfect map as well. I was totally excited cos it was like a treasure hunt cos i just had a map and my car with me.. :) and i started of my journey. the time was around 10.15 when i left my house and due to laila the roads were empty..:) and i just cruised along to Tnagar, and after few struggles and wrong turns finally i reached RangDe.

RangDe is a Non-profit organization that deals with MicroCredit. in simple words the HAVE's lend(not-donate) money to HAVE-NOT's and they use that money and make a living out of it and return the money back to the HAVE's..:) www.rangde.org

so then i finally reached the office and I was told that Mr.ram was waiting for me from an energetic lad Srihari.finally i met Ram and he told me all about rangde and then co-founder smitha came and told me more about the workings of the company and the fields where i can help them out.And then i was introduced to the interns and the people working with RangDe.

After the introduction part, i was explained about how the system works by Srihari and i was browsing all the photos of the field trips they made to meet the borrowers.:)

Then Srihari,Kunal,Priya,Aashita and me had lunch at Punjabi dhabba. and we somehow managed to crawl back to the office after a heavy lunch.:P.

It was only my first day and i was told to accompany them to an educational trust to finalize the eligibility of education loans.Myself and Priya were the official Tamil translators for this visit.. :D Finally at 5 we finalized the loan details .

I never expected my first day would have so many stuff to blog about and it was indeed a unique experience.

You can just click on the image to know more about RangDe.