1. Act to Impact
Important Action
Team Green Collar Division
Apoorva Jain
Dishant Bisaria
India

2.  Our goal is train 1 million people in next 10 years in four focus
sectors:
 Work in states/areas where there is a need of skill building with
Government and NGO’s
 Setting up a distributed delivery model such that education is
available at the source of students
PROBLEM | SOLUTION | IMPACT

3.  Execution and pilot testing: THREE pilot projects were
run in 4 states of India which focused skill building and
basic livelihood training in the area of
Handicrafts, Sustainability and Technology
 Total of 88 hours out of targeted 200 hours of touchdown
courses have been conducted
 Outreach of 3500 people comprising a diverse group of
students, women and rural population
 Team working on ground:
Volunteers: 70 | Trainers: 4 | Academia: 10 colleges
 States where the pilots are being conducted:
Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh and Haryana
LINKS TO WORK VIDEOS:
SAKSHAM PROJECT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKiK5WSLbe4
SUSTAINABILITY PILOT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpDOaqGONn4
PROBLEM | SOLUTION | IMPACT

4. Education:
 A rural awareness program was run in Haryana for 100 below poverty
line families (BPL, earning less than 2 euros a day)
 Focusing on education for kids between 7 to 14 , health awareness
and women empowerment
 125 kids were given education in college campus for free with an
objective to bring them into mainstream education
 200 women were collected and awareness was spread about
government schemes and policies
 115 kids were admitted to government local school and 15 women
were admitted into teacher training program to be self dependant
 Audio tutorials were recorded for visually challenged people in
collaboration with All India Confederation of the Blind and National
School of Blinds.
LINKS TO WORK VIDEOS: SAKSHAM PROJECT | SUSTAINABILITY PILOT

5. Handicrafts sector:
 Indian Handicrafts is one of the decentralized sectors in
the country which gives employment to 6 million workers
 A pilot was run in Delhi and Madhya Pradesh with
Chanderi weavers (a hand woven cloth from MP)and idol
makers in Delhi (one of the most important sector)
 Provided them livelihood training and brought their
products to mainstream exhibitions
 We worked with 92 families staying in Chanderi, Madhya
Pradesh and Delhi employed in making idols and
weaving sarees
 Outreach of 600 craftsmen directly benefitted and target
is to expand it to 2000 by the end of the year
LINKS TO WORK VIDEOS: SAKSHAM PROJECT | SUSTAINABILITY PILOT

6. Sustainability sector:
 Skill development workshops have been conducted in the
10 colleges located across 4 states
 Outreach of about 1750 students, prime focus has been on
technology and sustainability in daily life
 In collaboration with Nokia- Create to Inspire and
Oxfam, India this program is being run successfully across
5 universities
 The scale up model which is to be launched this August is a
Sustainability Olympiad which will be conducted across
schools and colleges in Delhi-NCR
 Having a target outreach of 500,000 students from age
group between 15 t0 21
LINKS TO WORK VIDEOS: SAKSHAM PROJECT | SUSTAINABILITY PILOT