Livelihoods for Children

Anchor: 
Design impact / www.d-impact.org
Dates:
Jan 23 - Feb 01 
Location:
Ahmedabad
About this fellowship:
This fellowship invites participants to work closely with Design Impact to research, study and contribute to a program run by Manav Sadhna. Manav Sadhna is an organization engaged in various humanitarian projects that cut across barriers of class and religion and address issues faced by socio‐economically neglected segments of society. Their “Earn n Learn” educational program provides meals, education, and income for students while engaging them in the production of paper crafts.  Paper crafts are in turn sold to generate income for the program. Design Impact will work with Manav Sadhna to redesign the program to be more engaging and beneficial for the students, as well as to redesign the paper craft products to increase sales and therefore generate more funding for the organization. The fellowship will seek to increase the sustainability of the program, allowing more students to become involved and for their learning potential to be increased. The fellows will prepare a roadmap for how design and business interventions can enable program effectiveness and sustainability.