A not-for-profit student body organization persevering for more than 9 years, Enactus Delhi College of Arts and Commerce is a chapter of an international organization that connects students, academia and social businesses through entrepreneurial based projects. We strive to empower people to transform given opportunities into simple solutions; which in turn results in the upliftment of themselves and their communities.
As of now, we here at Enactus DCAC have pioneered over 7 different Projects, empowered more than 150 entrepreneurs who are now leading a better quality of life due to our intervention than they used to before; and, all in all are proud to say that we have impacted more than 11000 lives!
Farmers in India face the problem of Post-Harvest Losses, wherein they lose produce worth in excess of Rs. 93,000 lakh crores per year. As the current storage solutions are deemed to be expensive & inaccessible for the farmers, we saw an opportunity to turn things around for the better and initiate – Project Zaraat!
Project Zaraat aims to minimize Post-Harvest Losses & uplift the farming community by enhancing forward linkages through a self-sustaining social enterprise. Via our Project, we plan to provide farmers with an affordable, microclimate-based portable storage that extends the shelf-life & preserves the freshness of produce by up to 7 days!
Our mission is to reach out to and help as many small & marginal farmers suffering due to the plague of post-harvest losses, and equip them with the tools to take matters into their own hands. Gone would be the days that the common Indian farmer would be at the mercy of middlemen with no bargaining power; rather we plan to set numerous farmers on a journey towards a more sustainable lifestyle, and a higher standard of living!
Our vision is to further make Project Zaraat more scalable and diverse by organizing our farmers into FPOs so that they are able to take advantage of collective bargaining, and introduce various other verticals into our Project such as composting, organic farming and so on!
