Proximity Designs is a not-for-profit social enterprise working to help reduce poverty for rural families in Myanmar (Burma).
Proximity distributes its products and services through a network of private sector agro-dealers and independent village-level agents that reaches approximately 80 percent of Myanmar's rural population.
Proximity Designs was co-founded Jim Taylor and Debbie Aung Din, initially as a country program under International Development Enterprises (IDE) in 2004.
[3] Mr. Taylor and Ms. Aung Din, both graduates of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, were named Rainer Arnold Fellows in 2007–08,[4] and received a 2012 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship.
To date, Proximity Designs has helped 2.5 million rural people through its products, services and farm recovery efforts in the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis (2008).