Archive for the 'Livelihoods' Category
Bagar Employment Institute and Source for Change speak to BITS Pilani students
A few of us at GDL were asked to speak on development at the grassroots level at BITS Pilani on Sunday February 7th. The Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership hosted an Entrepreneurship week and our panel discussion was one of the events. Fortunately we were also able to bring BEI’s Community Leadership team, a nine member [...]
Read More..>>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..>>THE BAGAR PARADOX
BEI was established with a single point focus of providing quality training to rural youth to bridge the gap between the urban and non urban students. The training would empower them to snatch a job in fighting situations. In the last year or so we have opportunities of delight when a student or two of [...]
Read More..>>The Level of Elementary Education Survey was completed by the BEI Team
In collaboration with ASER (Annual State of Education Report) – 2008, facilitated by Pratham Rajasthan (Jaipur). The survey for level of elementary education was completed by the BEI team. This effort was co-ordinated by Kaushal Rajoriya and State Head of ASER organization, Mr. Ajay Sharma. The survey was completed in thirty villages of the [...]
Read More..>>BEI Scaling of Computer Classes with Core Batch & Tally class
Festival Greetings to all…
Currently, four batches of classes for computer job training are running. One of the new batches started this week and after a long time we started a combined batch (male/female). One of the new things we have done with this batch is created a Core Batch, combining computer with English skills Training. [...]
Source For Change makes the news again!
Source For Change makes a splash in the local newspapers. On the occassion of the opening of their new offices and computer lab, the SFC associates were interviewed. Read their inspiring story in this article entitled “Source For Change made us independent”.
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Read More..>>An experiment in trust
Despite one month of living and working in a new place and interacting in a language and culture I had only a passing familiarity with, I have not yet taken the time to write about my experience. Friends have encouraged me to write both about my time in Bagar and about specific successes and disappointments. [...]
Read More..>>BEX scaling to new heights
BEX is now scaling to new heights. We have over 400 aspirants registered, and in less than 2 months since our inauguration on April 20, we have already placed over 60 students.
Many more updates to come soon.
Source For Change featured on Economic Times
Economic Times article featuring Source For Change (June 25, 2008)
The article was in All-India edition.
Congratulations to Shrot, Gagan, Alim and all the SFC interns on achieving this. This comes on the back of two other major milestones this week: SFC inaugurated it’s new office and computer lab on Monday, and has now expanded to 20 [...]
BEI’s Spoken English Students Land Retail Jobs
As indicated in my last post, four Spoken English students appeared for interviews at a top retail company this past week. All of them made it to the third and final interview.
Two of the four students, Balveer Bundela and Praveen Bundela of Bagar, were chosen for the CSR (Customer Service Representative) position. They have both [...]