Archive for the 'Livelihoods' Category
A New Role, A New Beginning
Over the last month, GDL has evolved from an organization that is finding solutions to one that is implementing solutions. New interventions, such as the Bagar Employment Institute and the Bagar Drinking Water Initiative, show that GDL is moving into an implementation mode that requires additional man-power. To meet this need, we have hired two [...]
Read More..>>Maintaining Momentum, Thinking Sustainability
Weekly Goals
Develop Curriculum for the week
Conduct training for rural BPO
Develop contacts for future contracts for BPO
Implement our first contract
Find entrepreneur to sustain business going forward
To introduce myself and my project, I am working at GDL to start a
rural Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) company that will employ
women to perform digitization and data-entry work. I and a [...]
Finding the “Source for Change”
This was a great week for our BPO (which we recently christened with the name SKARV – Source for Change) with just the right combination of luck helping propel our project to the next level and hard work in putting down the ground-work for future success.
Before discussing the business development side of my responsibilities, it [...]
Lessons learned while getting started
My goal last week was to begin the retail class. I’m glad that I started as I had a good number of individuals interested in the class and had I waited any longer, their interest could have potentially waned. However, because I was creating the English curriculum, and at a very slow pace, running the [...]
Read More..>>Retail, retail, retail – read all about it!
I didn’t accomplish my goal of completing phase one of my marketing campaign which involved creating and distributing flyers, contacting two college professors, and getting in touch with half of the young men I surveyed at the career fair. However, sometimes I find that even in only partial completion of a task, that small [...]
Read More..>>Taking on the challenge of creating curriculum
The Past Week: 09.17.07 � 09.22.07
� Complete spoken English course overview for all twelve weeks and half of the first week’s lesson plans
Much of why I didn’t complete what I intended to was because of my own fears and inhibitions. While I changed what it [...]
Finding curriculum, part II
The Past Week: 09.11.07 � 09.15.07
� Confirm where I can get curricula in retail and personality development from
The reasons for me not being able to deliver on this goal are a combination of external factors as well as my own thought process.
In terms of [...]
Read More..>>Finding curriculum
The Past Week: 09.03.07 � 09.08.07
� Evaluate each organization’s curriculum in Delhi and Jaipur
This goal was partially completed in that I was able to evaluate one organization’s personality development curriculum, two organizations’ English curricula, and another’s course in retail. The organizations’ course [...]
Read More..>>Small wins
The Past Week: 08.27.07 � 09.01.07
This week, the reasons for not reaching my intended goals is my fault � nothing in the field set me back � just my own self. Therefore it would be boring to discuss why and how I did not prioritize certain activities over others.
What is interesting [...]
Read More..>>Being creative about fact finding
Week 20.08 � 25.08
� Determine the top five in-demand Indian industries
While attempts were made to do this, I was unsuccessful at reaching a conclusion. The career consultants I’ve contacted said either: a) they could not make general comments about industries but would be able to [...]