Follow Your Inner Voice!
Plustrust works to encourage people who make choices based on their inner voice. We are strengthened by the knowledge that there are many “people like us” who follow their instincts to reach out to others and express care and compassion in concrete terms.
About Us
Plustrust is a Bangalore based organization that provides micro-incubation support to women changemakers from rural resource poor communities through fellowship programs. Established in 2008, Plustrust started by offering The Young Changemakers fellowships in inclusive education and animal welfare. Since then, Plustrust has grown, evolved, diversified and increased its reach to provide support and guidance to women with entrepreneurial minds to define, test and develop their ideas for change. We believe that nurturing individuals at the community level is the first step towards change.
Our Purpose
We address the persistent gender gap in entrepreneurship and innovation in rural communities in India that create major barriers to women’s aspirations and personal ambitions. Plustrust is therefore working with rural women changemakers by providing micro-incubation support through The Rural Women Edupreneur (RWE), Return to Roots ( R2R) and Changemaker Fellowship programmes. We identify and encourage those with entrepreneurial mindsets in piloting their entrepreneurial ventures in Education, Healthcare, and Livelihood to improve basic services in their community.
Our Solution
Our Impact
Since the past 13 years, Plustrust have offered 223 Fellowships opportunities across 14 states in India. We have inspired and nurtured 46 changemakers to be successful micro service entrepreneurs and have been working in diverse areas such as women’s health and hygiene, catering, making goat-milk soap, skill development and tailoring, social inclusion, education for citizenship, employability and skills, science and arts education and animal welfare. We have also diversified our Anchor network over the years and are now strongly connected with a group of 18 Anchors working in 7 states of India – Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Bihar, Jharkhand and Maharashtra.
Through the 2 micro-incubations, we have been able to provide a number of skill building opportunities and have collaborated with individuals such as Mr. Sachin Kotangle, start-up veteran, and organizations like the Karnataka Coaching Council (KCC), , Bahaar Foundation, Portea, Spotsense and Stepone to help them create transformative spirals of change.