Prourgn works hands-on with social entrepreneurs in India, China, and Cambodia — bringing 37 years of global enterprise leadership, two decades of field presence, and the patience to stay. We welcome partners who want to build with us.
Prourgn concentrates on three social impact missions in Asia, each grounded in a long-standing relationship with the people doing the work on the ground.
Prourgn is a shareholder and advisor of iKure, whose community health workers and WHIMS platform bring primary care to underserved villages. We contribute enterprise-scale IT judgment, governance, and Japanese networks at board level.
Prourgn supports employment creation for people with disabilities, working with the Aihui Autism Recovery Center in Xiamen alongside Professor Miyuki Ishikawa (Nihon Fukushi University). Our CEO ran an inclusive IT company in Japan where 72 of 113 colleagues live with disabilities — this mission is built on practice.
The Rieko Yano School opened in rural Prey Veng in 2006, funded by Prourgn's founder together with Cambodia's Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport and the Asian Development Bank. She has backed it ever since and travels to Cambodia one or two times a year. A scholarship now carries its strongest graduates on to university in Phnom Penh.
Social impact begins with relationships. We bring experience from Japan, learn from local expertise and stay involved as the work develops.
Our initiatives grow through the people who know their communities: healthcare entrepreneurs, educators and employment-support teams.
From a conversation about a medical device to a university scholarship, we help partners find a concrete next step.
Long-standing relationships give us the context to listen, follow through and keep learning together.
Many bring goodwill to Asia's social sector. Prourgn brings something rarer: an operator's discipline, decades of on-the-ground relationships, and the credibility of having actually run things.
Our CEO directed Mitsubishi Corporation's worldwide SAP re-implementation — 56 sites across 30 subsidiaries, 11 branches, and 15 group companies — and served as Head of IS at a TSE Prime manufacturer.
The same Cambodian school, visited every year for 20 years. Relationships in Kolkata, Xiamen, and Phnom Penh that have survived market cycles, a pandemic, and generational change.
Board-level discipline: cybersecurity Level-2 programme design, IT governance for listed companies, and the reporting standards of Japan's most demanding corporate environments.
Five years of postings in Shanghai and Jakarta, business fluency across Asia, and a Japanese professional network spanning trading houses, academia, and social finance.
Funded and built through a Japanese NPO while our founder was a manager at Mitsubishi Corporation. She has returned every year since.
Prourgn incorporated in Tokyo in December 2015. Our founder became a partner in ARUN, Japan's pioneering social investment platform.
Backing Cambodia's forest-campus engineering university and mentoring its alumni in Japan.
Prourgn took over ARUN's engagement with iKure, becoming a direct shareholder and advisor of the Kolkata health-tech company.
After 37 years, our founder left Mitsubishi Corporation and dedicated Prourgn entirely to its three social impact missions.
Partnership with the Aihui Autism Recovery Center in Xiamen, and livelihood support through the regional tea trade.
From Tokyo, Prourgn works where its relationships live: Prey Veng in Cambodia, Kolkata in India, and Xiamen in China — each plotted here at its true coordinates.
Base map: Equirectangular projection by Strebe, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 — recoloured here into two tones (pale sea, dark land). Coordinates are the published locations of each office and school.
Rieko Yano founded Prourgn after 37 years at Mitsubishi Corporation, where she rose from engineer to Statutory Program Manager of the corporation's worldwide SAP re-implementation — one of the largest IT programmes ever undertaken by a Japanese trading house.
A useful partnership starts with a shared interest. Tell Rieko Yano where your work meets ours — in India, China or Cambodia.
Prourgn welcomes conversations with foundations, companies, family offices, and individuals who want to create social impact in India, China, or Cambodia — and want a partner who has been on the ground for two decades and will stay after the announcement fades.
Field-verified opportunities, board-grade governance, cultural bridging between Japan and Asia, and hands-on stewardship of every commitment we join.
