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An Ambitious Balance
Pulkit Agrawal was an Indicorps 08-09 fellow, based at GDL in Bagar, where he spent time trying to reduce unemployment by encouraging entrepreneurship through business teaching, awareness generation and bespoke consulting. Now back at home in London he reflects on some of the differences in life between then and now. He [...]
Read More..>>Life is Dramatic
Life as a human being is dramatic. It’s dramatic because of choice. As a human being you are given a set number of years to live. Every choice we make, we sacrifice what we don’t do for something we do. Since our time is limited, there are a limited number of choices we can make. [...]
Read More..>>Source for Change speaks at TEDxShekhavati
Shrot Katewa, the co-founder and COO of Source for Change recently spoke at TEDxShekhavati in Fatehpur, Rajasthan. Even more exciting is the fact that Shobha Sharma, an SFC Business Process Associate, joined Shrot on stage. Please see them both here:
TED is a global conference which attracts some of the sharpest, best known minds on the [...]
Read More..>>Happy Holi!
The GDL Team celebrated Holi or होली in Bagar this past Monday. We enjoyed visiting friends in the community, throwing colored powder or rang at each other, eating sweets, and watching Holika being burned.
Please learn more about Holi here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holi
Source for Change Completes Web Research / Data Entry Work for US-based Real Estate Firm
BAGAR, RAJASTHAN, INDIA (24 December 2009) – Source for Change (SFC), a company established through the Ajay G. Piramal Foundation, completes the 17th IT-based project in the company’s history. The most recent project was for UrboCorp, a real estate firm based in Houston, Texas, USA. The client needed comprehensive research from multiple websites regarding 1800 [...]
Read More..>>BEI VOICE LAB
The Voice Lab has become operational at BEI center in Bagar.It is an attempt to provide platform for students in rural areas to communicate in English using technology, listen to pre recorded matter to improve their listening skills.Interact with the system in Q&A format to enhance their interview preparation skills, it also has interactive grammar [...]
Read More..>>New initiative at GDL: Developing Entrepreneurship
Dear GDL Blog readers,
This is my first entry (4 months into my time here!) so I should introduce myself.. My name is Pulkit Agrawal and I am one of the trinity of Indicorps Aug 08 fellows that are currently at GDL. I shall leave the others to give more details about themselves, but I have [...]
NEW INITATIVES ARE BEARING FRUITS
The arrival of autumn has brought chill and numbness in the weather but the spirit at the BEI English classes is high. The English class took the initiative of imparting medical representative training to the rural youth who were science graduates and above. The curriculum for the one month course was developed at BEI. It [...]
Read More..>>GENERAL:Defining Moments
The onset of monsoon brought about relief from heat and expectation for future. Amidst the arrival of dark clouds, dancing peacocks, pattering Sheds and rushing umbrellas the weather at GDL was changing too. From hot, hectic,colorful, myriad and fruitful summer activities carried out by the interns from BITS and U.S. to the poise of tired [...]
Read More..>>Shifting Mindsets
**As my last posting indicates, a student in the Spoken English was offered a retail job but was forced to refuse it because his parents objected to him joining.
Very recently (within the last few hours), the student informed me that he convinced his parents to allow him to start. Unfortunately, the company at which he [...]