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ducation

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mpowerment and advocacy for women

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r. Kalpana Sankar, Managing Trustee,

HiH India.

e job creation model HiH India

pioneered focuses on the holistic

empowerment of women through SHGs,

financial and digital literacy, skill training

and entrepreneurship, as well as forming

federations to effect higher levels of change.

is model has been replicated in several

countries like South Africa, Afghanistan,

Myanmar, Cambodia and Brazil, and in

India, it has created over 4.5 million jobs,

with the goal of reaching 10 million by 2025.

HiH India has gained global recognition

as well as grassroots success. ‘is includes

the children who graduated from our

residential or transit schools and who have

become engineers or are working with the

government; children of women who we

have trained as entrepreneurs who have

made it as doctors and advocates. We want

every child to be where they rightly belong

– at school and living a full childhood

complete with education, sport, friends and

family,’ states Dr. Sankar.

HCL Grant Project Title:

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everaging

Technology for Continued Education of

nreached and Vulnerable Children During

and Post-Pandemic in Madhya Pradesh

Beneficiaries:

3,000 children, 3,000

adolescents, 3,000 mothers, 100 school

teachers, 500 SMC/CRPC members

Location:

50 v

illages in Madhya Pradesh