Promoting micro-enterprises and entrepreneurship

ARUNIM’s key objective is to create a Marketing Federation and facilitate entrepreneurs with disabilities to become "Contributors and Job Creators". ARUNIM works with 192 NGOs as well as individual entrepreneurs as members across the country. It reaches out to more than 3,000 persons with disabilities.

ARUNIM is a pioneering and path-breaking innovation for creating livelihoods through entrepreneurship, with a special focus on persons with developmental disabilities. Set up in 2008, ARUNIM’s strategies include building the membership base across the country, networking with financial sectors, corporate sectors and the various government bodies and ministries that promote micro enterprises, and building a brand. Its activities range from policy level interventions to providing information, offering training in product design, introducing technology-based solutions and marketing opportunities to all its members and providing intensive support to sheltered workshops, individuals with disabilities and self-help groups, which could be inclusive of parents, siblings and persons from other marginalised groups, for incubating micro enterprises. ARUNIM’s Key objective is to create a Marketing Federation and facilitate entrepreneurs with disabilities to become “Contributors and Job Creators”.

Solution, Innovation and Impact

ARUNIM works with 192 NGOs as well as individual entrepreneurs as members across the country. It reaches out to more than 3,000 persons with disabilities. ARUNIM training on Micro Enterprise, Design Workshops and Product Evaluation Programmes has been attended by 345 trainers and participants from across the country.