Skoll Entrepreneur(s): Debbie Aung Din and Jim Taylor
Change(s) Addressed: Economic & Social Equity

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Proximity Designs uses a design-centric approach identifying high-impact opportunities to boost agricultural productivity and increase income for millions of smallholder farm families. The pioneering on-the-ground enterprise in Myanmar (Burma) designs, builds, and markets affordable products and services that vulnerable rural families use to transform their lives: they design with empathy. So far more than 90,000 income-boosting products and service have been sold, changing the lives of more than 400,000 people. Proximity will grow its work in irrigation products, farm advisory services and product financing as well as expand into rural energy products.