Ekalavya Educaiton & Research Foundation is a non-profit venture (Section 8 Company) that deploys trained speech and hearing impaired staff in mainstream roles in Corporates. Here is how

1. A Profile
July 2019
Ekalavya Education & Research Foundation
A Non-Profit (Section 8) Company
ekalavya.foundation
Jun 2019

2. Inspired by Ekalavya
a self-motivated self-study driven archer

3. Objective
To Provide Vocational training
to SHI towards Sustainable
Employment in corporate
mainstream

4. The Team
SHISHIR GORLE & RAJA SEKHAR REDDY
First generation entrepreneurs, founded Innovsource,
India’s 4th largest staffing company and exited the
business after 14 years. They have also founded
Squaremeal Foods in 2015, and setup a chain of
restaurants, Mirchi & Mime and Madeira & Mime
served exclusively by Speech & Hearing Impaired
(SHI) service staff. The company vows to employ 500
SHI staff, and already employs 75. BizSR, another
venture of theirs, incubates, grooms & mentors young
entrepreneurs.
With a vision of providing sustainable employment
to Speech & Hearing Impaired workforce, they
have setup Ekalavya Foundation, to encourage
corporates to take on trained SHI staff in large
numbers.

5. What SHI are
• Visual activity
• Dexterous work
• Creative work
• Standardised work
• Service with a
smile
Typical Profiles
Restaurants, Hotels, Data entry,
Accounting, Email, Back-office, Tailoring,
SPAs, Parlours, Packing, Loading,
Logistics, Housekeeping, etc.
• Low attrition
• Higher
concentration
• No distractions
• Visual learning
ability
• Low nuisance

6. Our Approach
COMMUNITY WORKSPACE
We believe working in a community
works. Having equals among your co-
workers is vital to work effectively and
efficiently. Co-workers provide a sense
of belonging, a sense of security and a
sense of support in everyday work life.
Our approach is to engage a team of 10
or more employees of similar abilities to
work together in the same team.

7. Our Approach
REVERSE INCLUSION
SHI Community flourishes while among
their own. We believe that an
organisation has to enable their abled
staff to converse and interact with SHIs
so as to have an effective work
relationship.
Therefore, we insist that the abled staff
learn basic Indian Sign Language and
are sensitised about the way of being
of SHIs

8. Process
Identify the team
Create course content
Recruit SHI candidates
Train to requirement
Deploy team
Monitor Performance
Periodic Counselling
Identify Corporate

9. Holistic Training
For Candidates:
• Classroom Training
• Practical Training
• Shadow Training
• Assessment
For Supervisors:
• Basic Adaptive ISL
• Sensitisation Training
For HR Team:
• Sensitisation Training

10. Deployment & Counselling
• Our responsibility isn’t over after deployment
• We continue handholding in monitoring performance
• We conduct periodic counselling sessions
• We conduct reskilling trainings

11. Hospitality Data Entry Logistics
Tailoring
Some Job Profiles
Accounting Factories

12. What we need from you
• Identify a team to be manned by SHI
• Assign a supervisor to create course
content
• Sensitisation of Management team
• Commitment to handhold the batch
• Establish the same measures of efficiency
and productivity
TRAINING IS FREE

13. Invitation for Donations
• Ekalavya is a Section 8
Company
• Donations made to
Ekalavya are eligible for
Section 80G* benefits under
income tax
• Donations made to
Ekalavya are entitled to be
adjusted under your CSR
Budget
* Applied

14. Thank You
ekalavya.foundation