Empowering Communities
Transforming Lives
Working To Uplift Rural Livelihoods And Bring Sustainable Change In Underserved Regions
About Us
Udhyam is a rural entrepreneurship program designed to encourage entrepreneurship among village communities in Uttarakhand’s Kumaon region. With the right support, Udhyam entrepreneurs create jobs for their communities and contribute to the local economy.
Housed Under Metores Trust Udhyam, a Sanskrit word meaning ‘enterprise,’ was launched in 2017 as a pilot initiative to promote rural entrepreneurship in Uttarakhand. Udhyam aims to create entrepreneurs who generate employment for themselves and others, becoming role models and inspiring further business creation in their communities. In doing so, the project seeks to increase overall rural employment opportunities, thus providing people in Uttarakhand with the choice to stay back or reverse migrate back to the hills.
Vision
Inspire entrepreneurship within rural mountain communities as a means to empower villages to achieve self-sufficiency in employment & livelihood.
Mission
Identify & support entrepreneurs between 21 & 58 years with financial, technical & mentorship assistance to enable them to establish & grow their businesses
What We Do
Udhyam is a rural entrepreneurship program designed to encourage entrepreneurship among village communities in Uttarakhand’s Kumaon region. With the right support, Udhyam entrepreneurs create jobs for their communities and contribute to the local economy.
Incubation or
scaling
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Financial support
through loans
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Timely
guidance
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Personalised
mentoring
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Why Udyam?
To slow down the rate of migration from Uttarakhand’s hilly areas to cities, by providing sustainable livelihood opportunities in the villages itself through locally owned and community-based enterprises.
There is a massive need for employment in the region, as an increasing number of educated youths in the Kumaon region currently face a bleak future with very limited livelihood options.
We envision that this will have a multiplier effect in the short and medium term, effectively boosting local employment, creating jobs and encouraging more and more people to consider entrepreneurship as a viable choice. We work in alignment with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 8 of ‘Decent Work and Economic Growth’, which aims to tackle the growing problems of youth unemployment and access to opportunity.
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