Archive for the 'Livelihoods' Category
Shortage of Laborers Plagues India
Yet another article that highlights the national relevance of our Bagar Employment Institute initiative (vocational training with career grooming and placement services)
Shortage of Laborers Plagues India
Skills Gap Drags Down Economy;
Mr. Sheetal’s Tent By *ERIC BELLMAN* and *JACKIE RANGE*
WSJ.com
May 1, 2008; Page A1
India, a nation of 1.1 billion, has a chronic labor shortage, in the […]
Business Development as a Means of Empowerment
This week, I sought to do business development for Source for Change, our women-run, rural BPO. With managerial and administrative duties taking up a lot of my time, I have not been able to dedicate time to the BPO. Our Business Process Associates (BPAs) have, therefore, started to take on responsibility for business development.
On Friday, […]
Post-Career Day
Last Sunday was Career Day. The number of people who showed up was around 400. Better than last time, which is great considering it is exam time. But it was not the 1000 we were targeting.
The highlights of the career fair were: the aptitude test, the interview and customer service film, the science & technology […]
Moving ahead on curriculum
The Past Week: 01.20.08 – 01.26.08
*As I gear up for the Retail Training course which is to begin on the 4th of February, I have two major goals: curriculum development and marketing. Prior to this, I taught five students for six weeks. My thought process in starting with a small group was to allow those […]
empowering our advisory committee
*One of GDL’s newest initiatives is BEI, Bagar Employment Institute which my team members and I started up as a means to provide industry relevant training to community members. While we see value in charging for our classes, we also don’t want the fees to be a barrier for people to take them. Hence, we’ve […]
Read More..>>Business Development for Source for Change
Business Development for Source for Change continues to be a challenge. Initially, I had expected marketing for our all-women run rural BPO to be much easier than actually training women who had no previous computer experience. I have unfortunately found the opposite to be true. The women are typing at 40 words per minute, have […]
Read More..>>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 […]
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