FUZION CRAFTS INTERNATIONAL
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BASIC IDEA:
Use Water Hyacinth, natural waste to make handicraft items. We have established FUZION CRAFTS INTERNATIONAL, which is a handicraft training and production centre.
We aim to support at least 1000 families by 2015.
"76.26 % of production cost goes for employment generation."
"OUR BUSINESS HAS LOW CAPITAL INVESTMENT AND HIGH RATIO OF VALUE ADDITION."
About You
About You
First Name
Abdur Mukit Bin
Last Name
Rouf
Twitter URL
About Your Organization
Organization Name
FUZION CRAFTS INTERNATIONAL
Organization Website
Organization Country
India, AS, Goalpara
Country where this project is creating social impact
India, AS, Goalpara
Age of Innovator
18-34
Gender of Innovator
Male
Is your organization a
Hybrid
How long has your organization been operating?
1‐5 years
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Innovation
Name Your Entry
FUZION CRAFTS INTERNATIONAL
Select the stage that best applies to your solution
Start-Up (a pilot that has just begun operating)
How long have you been in operation?
Operating for 1‐5 years
The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?
Villages in Goalpara/Assam are prone to flood and there are no employment opportunities for women and people with physical difficulty
People in villages and BPL-zones need to have a platform so that they can earn from their homes.
There are more than 300 women in four villages in Goalpara who want to work with us but we could not employ them because of financial constraints.
1.Here at Goalpara/Assam there are more than 1000 women who are engaged in BIDI( low cost smoke) who work at a daily wage of less than Rs.50 i.e. $1.
2.Some are engaged in incense stick manufacturing at less than Rs.30 i.e. close to $1/2 .
FUZION CRAFTS INTERNATIONAL offers better wage opportunity to all these women. They can earn Rs.100/day with us.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
FUZION CRAFTS INTERNATIONAL provides training and raw material to the women so that they can work from from home. Most of the handicrafts in India is unorganized. We are an organized handicraft firm Artisans make the products in villages and they go through 3 to 4 middlemen before being sold.
Advantages and solution:
1.Abundantly available raw material i.e. Water-Hyacinth.
2.Availibility of workforce/labour.
3.availibility of artistic talent.
We are making products to cater mostly to the Home Decor segment.
•Since the rural women cannot leave their daily household tasks and they are mostly engaged in agriculture, we conceptualised to make part-time employment a full time production base in scattered population.
Innovativeness of the proposal :
We use natural waste and we create designer products and we use FUZION of different artistic styles of local village craft. People in villages, women and even the people with physical difficulty can earn their living from home.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
STEP1: Collect Water-Hyacinth( natural waste)
STEP2: Dry the materials and process them
STEP3: Train the women.
STEP4: Give work on contractual basis.
STEP5: Marketing- exhibitions/stalls etc.
Thus by using abundantly available raw material the people in villages can earn and the women can be self employed.
Our return is high as th cost of production is very less.
Example: 7 artisans made made 28 lamp-shades and 12 baskets and we sold it to RESORT ZIZNA near POBITORA WILDLIFE SANCTUARY, worth Rs.53000/-
Proof of concept:
This business is successful in
VIETNAM:- 1. ANC HANDICRAFT AND AGRICULTURAL SUPPLIER COMPANY LIMITED 2. MSAFINA INTERNATIONAL CO LTD 3.HIEP HOA ENTERPRISE source- Alibaba.com
Flow Chart of our complete process:
1) Identification of market opportunities
2) Prototype design and development / adaption and refinement
3) Test marketing
4) Upgrading equipping facilities
5) Securing inputs
6) Entrepreneurial hiring, training, managing
7) Production,quality control and packaging
8) Costing and pricing
9) Physical distribution
10)Export market development
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others also working to address the needs you are and what differentiates you from them. What challenges could these players pose to your success or growth?
We know that there is a huge potential in handicraft market
We are registered with DICC/GOALPARA/ASSAM. We will get help, sponsoring in getting stalls in national and international trade fairs.
We will do personnel marketing in Hotels & Resorts for Bulk-Orders.
•Handicraft products worth Rs 40,000 crores are being produced in India per year, a top Handicrafts official said.
SALES PLANNING:
1.B2B sales in National and International trade fairs.
2.Personnel selling in Hotels and Resorts
3.Website and tie-up with websites like Craftsvilla and Alibaba.com
4.Store selling in Guwahati
Social Impact
This Entry is about (Issues)
What solution(s) does your initiative address to help emerging entrepreneurs and small businesses grow and thrive in underserved communities? (select all applicable)
Access to financing, Access to supply chains, Access to economic opportunity.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
1.We have trained 95 women till 1-6-2012. 2. 41 women are effectively working with us.3. We have trained 18 people with physical difficulty in association with Assam Sarba Shiksha Abhijan. 4. We have trained 30 minor girls who were rescued by Assam Mahila Samata Society from forced labour. 5. More than 300 women in four villages want to work with us but we could not do these projects because of financial constraints.
We did Village awareness camps in some villages and in those villages there were limited employment opportunity for women, and now more than 300 women want to work with us and that’s why we are trying to start 4 micro centres in 4 villages so that the entire village can be supported.
The women got earning opportunities with us and the number of interested women are increasing.
What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?
We want to support and provide sustainable employment to at least 1000 families by 2015 .
We did Village awareness camps in some villages and in those villages there were limited employment opportunity for women, and now more than 300 women want to work with us and that’s why we are trying to start 4 micro centres in 4 villages so that the entire village can be supported.
We would like to set up at least 5 micro training cum production centres in 5 villages.
Expected turnover,
Net profit: Projected
2012-13= Rs.6 lakhs
2013-14= Rs.34 lakhs
2014-15= Rs.79 lakhs
2015-16= more than Rs. 1 crore
By sales:
2012-2013= Rs.27.33 lakhs
2013-2014= Rs.136.68 lakhs
2014-2015= Rs.273 lakhs
Thus we make good profit as well as we generate employment to people in villages and BPL-zones.
Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact
We want to start micro training and production centers in 5 villages for increasing production
Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your six-month milestone
Task 1
Start micro training and production center at village Baladmari Char No.2 and provide training to more than 100 women
Task 2
Start micro training and production center at village Baladmari Char No.4 and provide training to more than 100 women
Task 3
Start micro training and production center at village Nadi paar notun basti
Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone
Improve in techniques and implementation of technology for new product development
Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your 12-month milestone
Task 1
Get a drier installed to dry the raw materials because now we are dependent on the sun.
Task 2
develop new designs and new products
Task 3
marketing strategies-launch website, participate in exhibitions and for export market development
Founding Story: We want to hear about your "Aha!" moment. Share the story of where and when the founder(s) saw this solution's potential to change the world.
The idea originated out of necessity to make it big and rich also. Necessity for employment to people with limited resources , so i thought of using the available resource of natural waste to make designer products for higher profit for sustainable employment. I wanted to make it big, but financial constraint is a big hurdle. So i thought to use low cost raw material and labour for maximum return. “Our business has Low capital investment and high ratio of value addition “ Please see this link of our firm: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxlgn0-k5fY please see this link of our village awareness camps: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_YLsDFl2Zo
Sustainability
Tell us about your partnerships
FUZION CRAFTS INTERNATIONAL is a proprietorship firm.
Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list
My business idea is to use natural waste to make handicraft items which has a market of Rs.40,000 crore only in India. So any new research on fibre technology or market research will be of great help.
Since there are limited sources of employment in Assam there is a huge force of potential workforce which can be very productively used and also i have some other profitable business ideas.
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