Digital Livelihoods for 1,000,000 At-risk Youth

Dear Friends of Anudip,

The last few months have been spent in developing a plan to build Anudip Foiundation into one of India's major nonprofit brands and a ;eader in the skill development sector - without losing its complete focus on hi-need youth and women.

Having quadrupled capacty in the last four years we aim to do it again in the next four, while enhancing earned income and sustainability. We will do this

1. by bidding for an increasing number of government and CSR projects that fund through reimbursements rather than grants, and
2. by extensively deploying e-Learning technologies that improve trainer productivity, curriculum quality, and student engagement
3. by establishing a top-notch team of business unit leaders who are passionate about technology for economic empowerment who will lead the company into the future

Through these three strategies we will increase out annual training capacity from 12,000 today to 50,000 students per year in 2018-19, pushing our cumulative trained numbers past 200,000.

The last few months have also seen estalishment of our Specially-Abled Vocational Education (SAVE) program for persons with diabilities, wherein we have trained around 200 physically and visually challenged young men and women and placed them in corporate IT positions. We are excited about the enormous upside and social impact that can result from SAVE.

Finally our entrepreneirship groups of rural women continue to grow across West Bengal and Odisha state. The photo shows a team of Anudip incubated garment makers at a donor meeting.

With warm regards,

Dipak Basu