STUDENT EMPOWERMENT SOCIETIES - ENACTUS - THE KMC'S SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Our mission is to pave a path of improvement for our community while enabling our team to develop into more efficient and value-driven leaders.

Entrepreneurial– igniting business innovation with integrity and passion.
Action– the experience of social impact that sparks social enterprise.
Us– students, academics, and teachers collaborating to create a better world.



We follow strong values and work ethics that guide us as a team to fulfill our goals and objectives.

1. Integrity
2. Honesty
3. Fairness
4. Accountability
5. Promise to Customers
6. Learning
7. Teamwork
8. Passion

At the top, we have the Advisory Board. It consists of third-year students in the organization who oversee the overall work and provide us with their valuable expertise and experience.

Following them, we have the Core Team which is the central body of the organization. It consists of second-year students in the organization and includes The President, The Vice - President, and respective Operations and Department Heads.

Lastly, we have Members who are first-year students working under different departments and projects and report directly to the Core Team.

a) INTRODUCTION

Our first project, Project Dor works with a community of migrant women from Bihar, Jharkhand, and West Bengal to produce and sell handcrafted tie and dye products to revive this dying art form. It developed from a skill development program in 2016. The Project makes neo-ethnic, versatile, and gender-neutral cotton and chanderi scarves and dupattas, and aims to bring the apparel market’s attention to this dying art.

b) BENEFICIARIES



Project Dor is associated with migrant women from Bihar, Jharkhand, and West Bengal. Currently residing in the JJ Colony of Dwarka, Delhi, these ladies were previously vulnerable and were exploited daily and lacked resources and opportunities but possessed excellent stitching skills and a strong desire to learn.



We have a team of 4 hard-working women namely: Beena ji, Sushila ji, Sunita ji, and Maya ji. Moving a step closer to our ambition of making Dor an independent, self-sustaining business and transforming our community of women into full-fledged entrepreneurs, we recently succeeded in getting the project registered as a legal partnership firm.

c) IMPACT

Project Dor’s journey has been no less inspiring. In 2017, we entered the market with chic cotton scarves that stood out with their in-vogue presence. Positive market feedback for the existing products led us to expand the product range to chanderi scarves and chanderi dupattas.

a) INTRODUCTION

Project JanBhoomi was initiated in 2018. Our intensive lifestyle has resulted in an exponential increase in our waste generation and land degradation. Project JanBhoomi is an initiative to tackle these two intimately related problems. It is a significant step towards creating impact and changing lives by ensuring sustainable development.

It successfully participated in the Super Village Challenge and changed the mindset of farmers through the promotion of the use of organic compost, replacing chemical fertilizers, by setting up 200+ compost pits in numerous villages across the Palwal district of Haryana.

The project has engaged in the production of organic compost, and garden toolkits and recently launched its latest vertical of terracotta home composters.

(terracotta home composter)

(gardening toolkit)

b) BENEFICIARIES

Project JanBhoomi is associated with two skilled porters of Sonu Kumar Handicrafts, from the quaint Potter's Village in Delhi, filled with the scent of the Earth and the sight of beautiful earthenware. Devoid of employment opportunities the project seeks to provide them a source of sustainable livelihood.

c) IMPACT

a) INTRODUCTION

Addressing the urgent need to reduce plastic consumption, Enactus KMC introduced Project Syahi in 2019.

The name 'Syahi,' derived from the Hindi word for 'ink,' symbolizes a groundbreaking concept and holds the power to make a substantial impact. This initiative is dedicated to tackling the problem of “single-use plastic waste”.

The project aims to replace plastic pens with personalized and customisable upcycled paper pens which has a seed attached to its rear end, with a focus on empowering a community of migrant women, all contributing to a sustainable and eco-friendly future. Syahi pens are beautifully handcrafted by our skilled beneficiaries, a community of women, who after joining Syahi, now have access to a stable source of income. b) BENEFICIARIES

The project has very hardworking and dedicated women associated with it, who handcraft its upcycled paper pens. Project Syahi works in association with an organization named the Joint Women’s Program which helps the underprivileged in finding a source of livelihood. Our three community members Preeti Ma’am, Reena ji, and Savita ji, reside in Noida Sector 63, Uttar Pradesh.

c) IMPACT

Project Syahi has positively impacted our planet by replacing more than 1200 plastic pens, sprouting the growth of 9150 saplings, and preventing more than 194 kgs of carbon emissions. Our future projections paint a bright picture as we foresee a growth of 38% by the year 2027.

1. First runner up in Innerve 2.0: B-Plan competition by Sri Ram College of Commerce 2024
2. First place in Venture Vision: B-plan competition by Enactus Kamla Nehru College 2024.
3. First runner up at B-Plan in FMS Delhi 2024.
4. Qualified as one of the top 20 teams in the Enactus 77 Seconds Films of Impact, Project Syahi was featured on the global stage at Enactus Global World Cup 2022 in Puerto Rico.
5. First place in Pitch Green: B-Plan competition by Sri Guru Gobind Singh College of Commerce, 2023
6. First Runner-Up in Avensis: a B-Plan Competition by Enactus, Shivaji College, 2023
7. Second Runner-Up in B-Plan organized by Deen Dayal Upadhyay College, 2023
8. Received an Honorable Mention in 'Marine Plastics Innovation Challenge' by UN Environment in 2017.
9. Presented at the Yenching Social Innovation Forum at Peking University, China in 2018.
10. Shortlisted among the top 12 teams at 'Innovation Playground' held at IIM Ahmedabad & First Runner Up at 'Investor's Inventure' at Shri Ram College of Commerce in 2019.
11. Recipient of prestigious grants such as the KPMG Ethics Grant, Mahindra Grant, and Blue Dart.

At the national level, our work has been recognized by government institutions like the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment and the Indian Agricultural Research Institute. We have received major appreciation in the form of LORs from the Department of Social Welfare and Research Training, Govt. of India, and from the Chief Auditor of the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC). We received a letter of appreciation from the DPO, Palwal to address the issue of land degradation in Palwal, Haryana.

We have also been featured in multiple magazines and national dailies like iOWN, The Hindu, The Quint, Hindustan Times, and many more, on several occasions. We have also been featured on various podcasts and radio channels, such as 93.5 Red FM, 104.8 Ishq FM, and 94.3 Radio One India.

Every year Enactus Kirori Mal College transforms the personality of dedicated aspirational changemakers by inculcating in them the values of professionalism, solid work ethics, and empathy. It aims to make these students young changemakers and responsible global citizens who think beyond their comfort and are ready to go the extra mile for the benefit of their country and the world.

Throughout the year, students engage in a multitude of activities like community visits, marketing stalls, skill enhancement workshops, and competitions at both national and international levels that provide them a multi-dimensional exposure.

Experience in Enactus has helped many students excel in their respective careers. Our alumni have been placed in various reputed firms like Bain & Company, McKinsey & Company, and Boston Consulting Group, and also selected in prestigious institutions like Delhi School of Economics, London Business School, IIM Bangalore, IIM Kashipur, and many others. One aspect that stands out among the alumni of Enactus Kirori Mal College is their eternal passion to bring change in society through entrepreneurial means.

We, at Enactus Kirori Mal College, conducted our first ever offline event 'Sustineo' based on the theme "Earth Day: Invest in the Planet" on 19^th April, 2023. The event consisted of two parts - A speaker session followed by the launch of the Terracotta Home Composters by Project JanBhoomi. Our esteemed speakers were Prof. Prateek Sharma, the Vice Chancellor of TERI (The Energy and Resource Institute) School of Advanced Studies, Delhi, and Ma’am Garima Mishra, a senior technical consultant at Vision EIS and an esteemed member of our Business Advisory Board.