Act to Impact Important Action Team Green Collar Division Apoorva Jain Dishant Bisaria India

PROBLEM | SOLUTION | IMPACT  Our goal is train 1 million people in next 10 years in four focus sectors:  Work in states/areas where there is a need of skill building with Government and NGO’s  Setting up a distributed delivery model such that education is available at the source of students

PROBLEM | SOLUTION | IMPACT  Execution and pilot testing: THREE pilot projects were run in 4 states of India which focused skill building and basic livelihood training in the area of Handicrafts, Sustainability and Technology  Total of 88 hours out of targeted 200 hours of touchdown courses have been conducted  Outreach of 2500 people comprising a diverse group of students, women and rural population  Team working on ground: Volunteers: 70 | Trainers: 4 | Academia: 10 colleges  States where the pilots are being conducted: Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh and Haryana LINKS TO WORK VIDEOS: SAKSHAM PROJECT: SUSTAINABILITY PILOT:

Education:  A rural awareness program was run in Haryana for 100 below poverty line families (BPL, earning less than 2 euros a day)  Focusing on education for kids between 7 to 14, health awareness and women empowerment  125 kids were given education in college campus for free with an objective to bring them into mainstream education  200 women were collected and awareness was spread about government schemes and policies  115 kids were admitted to government local school and 15 women were admitted into teacher training program to be self dependant  Audio tutorials were recorded for visually challenged people in collaboration with All India Confederation of the Blind and National School of Blinds. LINKS TO WORK VIDEOS: SAKSHAM PROJECT | SUSTAINABILITY PILOTSAKSHAM PROJECTSUSTAINABILITY PILOT

Handicrafts sector:  Indian Handicrafts is one of the decentralized sectors in the country which gives employment to 6 million workers  A pilot was run in Delhi and Madhya Pradesh with Chanderi weavers (a hand woven cloth from MP)and idol makers in Delhi (one of the most important sector)  Provided them livelihood training and brought their products to mainstream exhibitions  We worked with 92 families staying in Chanderi, Madhya Pradesh and Delhi employed in making idols and weaving sarees  Outreach of 600 craftsmen directly benefitted and target is to expand it to 2000 by the end of the year LINKS TO WORK VIDEOS: SAKSHAM PROJECT | SUSTAINABILITY PILOTSAKSHAM PROJECTSUSTAINABILITY PILOT

Sustainability sector:  Skill development workshops have been conducted in the 10 colleges located across 4 states  Outreach of about 1750 students, prime focus has been on technology and sustainability in daily life  In collaboration with Nokia- Create to Inspire and Oxfam, India this program is being run successfully across 5 universities  The scale up model which is to be launched this August is a Sustainability Olympiad which will be conducted across schools and colleges in Delhi-NCR  Having a target outreach of 500,000 students from age group between 15 t0 21 LINKS TO WORK VIDEOS: SAKSHAM PROJECT | SUSTAINABILITY PILOTSAKSHAM PROJECTSUSTAINABILITY PILOT