IAMKHAADII FOUNDATION

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IAMKHAADII FOUNDATION hereinafter referred to as IAMKHADI. It is a trusted Non-for-profit social enterprise and export start-up. It is working towards marketing and promotion of “hand woven-hand spun fabric” & handloom in global markets for uplifting the living standards of the rural artisans and helping to provide direct global market access to Khadi Institutes (disorganized sector) spread across the country. In addition to it is trying to bringing all the stakeholders from Farm to Foreign (5 F Formula of Hon'ble PM) on one platform towards achieving the objective of taking Khadi from Local to Global, keeping in mind the Gandhian Philosophy, Central Silk Board, TRIFED, KVIC Objectives, Niti Aayog Guidelines, Ministry of Textiles, Ministry of MSME, Ministry of External Affairs, PMO Policies and related schemes. The definite need of the hour to leverage this emerging opportunity is to ensure scalability, quality, standardization, new design intervention, products and innovation in Khadi & Handloom on one side and relevant market linkages both within national boundaries as well at global platforms. IAMKHADI understands and appreciates this huge global opportunity and aims to expand its scope to the fullest. Towards the pursuit of widening the reach of Indian handloom and Khadi retailing & exports to foreign countries, the startup have been working dedicatedly to bring in standardization, scalability and harmonization in Khadi Institutes and thus helping the entire value chain to be dynamic and responsive towards changing fast global customers demands. The startup has taken the initiative to connect artisans at the grass-root level to retailers at national as well as international level and thus commits itself towards up-scaling the businesses of existing Khadi Institutes / Handloom and revamping the dead KIs/ defunct via enhanced marketing opportunities & CSR funds.

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