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RuralShores: Bringing jobs to rural India
RuralShores is a business process outsourcing (BPO) company focused on generating rural employment. The Bangalore, India based firm hopes to provide employment to more than 100,000 rural youth by setting up centers in each of India’s 500 rural districts. To help stem the tide of rural young people who migrate to cities in search of jobs, RuralShores creates employment opportunities in small villages.
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Beyond the Clinic: A holistic approach to creating community health in Ecuador
Most health care systems are structured to treat illness. APROFE, an Ecuadorian non-profit, focuses on preventing it by creating thriving communities. Its outreach programs include everything from health education and preventive care to entrepreneurial development, aiming to make communities – and the people in them – healthy, happy and prosperous.
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“If you teach a man to fish…”: The NSDC’s efforts to provide job training to 150 million Indians – part 2
We’ve all heard the proverb about how teaching a man to fish will feed him for a lifetime. But how can a country provide modern job skills to hundreds of millions? India’s National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) may have found a way. In part 2 of this Q&A, Dipra Mukhopadhyay, a member of the NSDC’s core investment team, discusses its efforts to train 150 million Indians, including the country’s poorest communities.
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How to Train 150 Million: The National Skill Development Corporation’s ambitious plan to remake India’s workforce – part 1
The National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) is a unique public-private partnership in India. Its mission is to skill 150 million Indians by 2022, by catalyzing the creation of vocational training institutions through joint ventures with the private sector. In part 1 of this Q&A, Dipra Mukhopadhyay, a member of the NSDC’s core investment team, discusses the program’s challenges and potential.
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Rockefeller Foundation To Pump $97 Million Into African Digital Jobs
The Rockefeller Foundation has announced that it will pledge $97 million to create jobs in the digital field in Africa as part of its ongoing initiative to create jobs for young Africans in the rapidly growing information and communications technology (ICT) enabled sectors in the continent.
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In Africa, the best ‘charity’ is aid for business
The traditional approach to solving Africa’s problems has been to rely on charity and aid – free money, more or less. And while charity has done much good for millions across the continent in terms of food security, health care, emergency response, and education, its chief weakness is that its results have not proven sustainable. Africa finds itself continually going back to donors simply to maintain the status quo. What the continent really needs is to create the environment – political, economic, and social – to achieve self-sufficiency.
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A STRYDE Forward for Youth: Creating opportunities in rural East Africa
Africa will add 122 million people to its labor force between 2010 and 2020. The Strengthening Rural Youth Development through Enterprise (STRYDE) program, a partnership between TechnoServe and The MasterCard Foundation, provides training, mentoring and building self esteem for young workers entering a difficult economy.
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Creating Employment Opportunities At the BoP: An Interview with Ajaya Mohapatra
A Q&A with Ajaya Mohapatra, Managing Director of Justrojgar India Private Limited – a for-profit venture bridging the demand-supply gap in informal sector jobs by sourcing, training and placing people living at the base of the pyramid.
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- Education
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