Amitabha Sadangi, an uncommon hero tackling poverty in India

Meet Amitabha Sadangi, a businessman who gave up wealth and fortune to tackle irrigation and poverty in India.

Amitabha Sadangi's vision is to empower the rural poor with affordable, sustainable agricultural technologies. He has been a leader in creating an Indian strategy and organization to disseminate technologies developed by International Development Enterprises (India).

Foot treadle irrigation pumps and low-cost drip systems introduced by IDE (India) have helped 400,000 families double their income, a net gain of more than $40 million per year. A signature element of the IDE (India) strategy is a "supply chain" of local manufacturers, distributors and installers who earn $1 million annually. IDE (India) has sold irrigation systems to the poorest families for as little as $1, enabling them to have more food and earn more money and, thus, afford better health care and education.

Learn about his story in this episode of Uncommon Heroes, funded by the Skoll Foundation. More information at www.skollfoundation.org.

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[corfehouse]

this is what the world needs...people with the right vision...small drops make ocean

[lavakava]

Amitabh bachhan should learn from amitabha...besdies the name, they have nothing in common...lol, one is a poverty denier, the other is a poverty helper; one lives in luxury and fame, the other is a commoner....

GO AMITABHA!

[MrBkpradhan]

sadar pranam in my mail.e sir.i proud of you .you are the real kalinga vir.i am the producer annadata etv oriya.wants totelicast these impliment as well as sucess stories from all over India.thru our network channel.ithink you may respond me in my mail.annadataoriya@etv.co.in

[SushantBhargav]

bravo !!!!!!!!!

sir !! you are one of few people who can bring change

may god bless you and your efforts

and i also wish people learn from you efforts................

it inspires really

[goodguy2949]

desont make sense he gave up his waelth to support a system that supports poverty in india and does not provide for everyone we are not really seeing the rea picture in india people are hurting and capitlaism is not going to deleiver the millions of people from drinkjng water with waste ,bathing in waste water,cooking with waste water .

[U5K0]

anyone know if you can buy this stuff on line?

[fedornavid]

he is my real hero.allah bless ppl like you my man.

from iran

[ABHINAVNR]

The elimination of poverty around the world should be the biggest priority for every single one of us....

[supershaitan]

Education must be brought to rural villages and slums of India

[ycats1000]

it's true...

saying such a thing is very bad-

if more countries were as well balanced as america then i'm sure the world would be a much better place-

as it happens, indians have too much freedom and not enough authority, where as chinese have too much authority and not enough freedom...

either way, the poor can't invent new things without money, and the rich won't contribute if the law forbids it-