Anudip staff and partners met in November 2007 to plan its growth and the launch of its first MERIT Center |
In early 2005, Actionaid, in collaboration with Stanford University, carried out an ethnographic study in the Sundarbans which showed that economies of desperately poor and marginalized people can be impacted dramatically by increase of local employment. Subsequently, a group of dedicated social entrepreneurs set up Anudip Foundation, a nonprofit company in the USA and India, to address critical livelihood needs of people of rural India through information technology. Anudip began establishing LINKAGE training centers with three locations in the Sundarbans in eastern India. These first centers were learning prototypes launched in partnership with community NGOs. They allowed the development of local learning techniques, course content, sustainability of operations, and ease of replication. Feedback from alumni of prototype Centers and recommendations of our advisors and partner-NGOs led to the concept of Anudip MERIT Centers, not only to absorb graduates of LINKAGE Centers, but also to address the burgeoning growth of the BPO sector in India and set up a model which will have far-reaching and nationwide implications on the industry. Much of Anudip's work has been made possible through support of the American India Foundation and the Sir Dorab Tata Trust and the AKM Foundation. |
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