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World Corps, India
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We collaborate with public, private, and NGO partners in developing countries to identify promising young leaders from rural areas - providing them with intensive training and skills to run a sustainable small business that helps meet the economic and social development needs of their communities. We focus on three major barriers to improving the lives of people in rural communities: absence of skilled professionals, lack of access to information, and lack of reliable energy services.
We piloted our Business, Community, and Citizenship Training and our Community Information Centers in India. We have now secured qualified staff and are launching these programs in Mexico, Kenya, and the Philippines.
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Deepa Anandakrishnan - Country Coordinator, World Corps India
Extensive experience managing environmental and community service projects in Chennai (formerly Madras). From 1994-1999, she worked with Exnora International, an NGO where she implemented various programs concerning solid waste management and environmental youth service projects. She manages World Corps India’s Community Information Center and Employment Generation projects in Kuppam.
Praveen Kumar Prithvi - Country Co-Coordinator, World Corps India
Strategic partnership development with government agencies, elected representatives, NGOs, private companies, and rural community members. Ten years' experience coordinating community development work in poor neighborhoods of South India as founder of the Youth Social Service Movement and with Exnora International. Co-founded India Conservation Corps. MS in Gandhian Thought, Univ. of Madras.
Dwight Wison , Executive Director
Founded in 1998
Employees: 8
Volunteers: 30
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