Rural communities living with a problem Must be leading
the solution

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Who is Rural Inclusion?

Rural Inclusion is an award-winning social enterprise on a mission to reduce poverty in rural communities worldwide. We develop, digitize and deliver innovative and cost-effective training solutions for our clients on financial inclusion, digital inclusion, and agricultural skills, AND we use our profits and technology to support community-based organizations through our social programme.

Our Social Business Model

innovative
training solutions

We help our clients talk the language of rural communities on financial inclusion and agriculture through our 3Ds approach and award-winning Ostrii platform

accelerating community-based organisations

Using our profits, we are building a first-of-its-kind programme to provide the leaders of community-based organisations (CBOs) that serve smallholder farmers with the skills, tools, and network to accelerate their local impact.

There are an estimated 600 million smallholder farmers in the world, who are integral to the future of our planet.

Yet many smallholder farmers are among the world’s poorest, earning less than $2 a day. With that, they are often unable to pay for quality education, adequate health care services and investments to expand their production.

Without access to safety nets, and climate disasters becoming more frequent and severe, the farmers who feed our world face an uphill battle.

Community led solutions are more important than ever – however they are often underfunded and unheard.

“We saw organisations coming from outside the community to work on areas of agriculture and hunger. But those projects were not sustainable, as soon as they left, the projects finished. Our community did not feel a sense of ownership.”

Kondwani

Founder, Rise for Phoka CBO, Malawi (Rural Inclusion Partner)

Supporting smallholder farmers is not just an investment in agriculture; it’s an investment in our global future.

Meet Ostrii

Ostrii is our award winning offline mobile application we developed to enable community leaders to deliver video-based training and collect data.

It is backed by academic evidence from researchers at University of Nottingham and University of Bristol, and will be used to deliver our accelerator programme in local languages to community-based organisations.

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