Archive for December, 2007
Marketing for Leadership Course
We were supposed to have an Academic Bowl today. The idea was that the academic bowl would be a marketing tool, but I decided to hold off on the academic bowl because it would detract me from more focused marketing. Also, how great would it be if the kids in the course helped organize the […]
Read More..>>Bold vision for Computer Classes set, Welcome New GDLers, Search for placement partners continues
The last two days of soul searching have yielded a bold new vision for GDL. Simply put, we want to expand the Bagar Employment Institute (BEI) and turn it into an institution that truly leaves a mark on the community. The answer is by scaling up rapidly, speed being necessitated by the limited time that […]
Read More..>>Starting the Bagar Drinking Water Initiative
So we are starting construction on the Bagar Drinking Water Initiative after a long wait. The first BDWI plant needs to be up and operational by the 15th of January which does not leave me too much time. The biggest hurdles I’m facing right now is obtaining a three phase electricity connection on a charitable […]
Read More..>>Planning the Academic Bowl
This was supposed to be my week for advertising for the Future Leaders’ Course. The plan was to go to all the schools and give an inspiring motivating talk that made students jump at the chance of joining the course.
I knew that exams were going on, but did not realize that students would not be […]
Structural changes to the Computer Classes – more defined assessment criteria in place
There have been structural changes made to the GDL computer classes. After getting a lot of constructive feedback in one of our daily ‘grill sessions’, I did realize that the class was starting to move towards mediocrity – the students were getting frustrated with the teacher, the teacher was losing passion in the course, and […]
Read More..>>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 […]
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 […]
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..>>Computer Class upto three batches, interim trainer in place
It has been a while since I have posted an update on the technology blog, and I apologize for that. In this instance though, no news is GOOD news. There has been a lot that has happened in the last month and a half. The last time I updated, two batches of classes had just […]
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