Proximity Designs
Social Entrepreneur
Jim Taylor and Debbie Aung Din
Founded
2004
MISSION
To move rural Burmese families out of poverty.
BUSINESS MODEL
Design, build and market affordable products and services that boost household productivity and therefore incomes for vulnerable, rural families in Myanmar. PD supports a supply-chain ecosystem with private sector partners supplying products at a profit while philanthropic grants are used to develop new products, deepen penetration in existing markets and enter new markets.
Where they work
Myanmar.
Annual budget
US$2 million FY11 (Dec11).
Delivered to date
80,035 irrigation products sold to 68,030 rural households covering 85% of the rural population.
Impact
US$225 in additional annual household income.
big plans
To serve 240,000 new farm families and provide off-grid solar lighting to 250,000 households over the next 5 years.
Our investment so far
US$200k in unrestricted grants.
