The idea of Rang De was sown in the year 2006 - the same year when Mr. Yunus was awarded the Nobel prize for his work with Grameen Bank. The motivation for starting Rang De was the belief that the peer to peer lending model could be leveraged to lower the cost of microcredit and reach out to under-served communities. RangDe.Org went live on January 26th 2008.

The spirit of Rang De

The name Rang De was decided after a lot of thought. It goes back to the patriotic struggle for Independence. We believe that a similar movement with the same kind of urgency is required to address poverty in India. The words Rang De also denote colour and exuberance and that is the significance we want our efforts to have for the people we reach out to.

Vision

Our vision is to make poverty history in India by reaching out to underserved communities through microcredit. We would do this through a network of committed field partners and social investors and offer microcredit that will have a positive impact on business, education, health and environment of the communities we work with.