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About Us
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INDUSAPTI is a joint project of Vigyan Ashram (www.vigyanashram.com ), INDUSA Endowment fund byDr.Kishan & Kiran Bhatia and Lend-a-hand-India (www.lend-a-hand-India.org)
Vigyan Ashram is a center of Indian Institute of Education (IIE) Pune. It is working on integrating education and development of community from last 28 years. It works for identifying and developing appropriate rural technologies and disseminating them to villagers through its educational program “Introduction to Basic Technology (IBT)” for students of VIII to Xth std. At present IBT program is getting implemented in over 92 schools in Maharashtra. Main objective of VA is implementing ‘Learning while doing’ methodology in education system. And to create self employment opportunity in village and thereby empowerment of rural youth and women.
Lend-A-Hand-India is a non-profit venture launched in 2003 by young professionals based in New York city USA. LAHI focuses on issues pertaining to youth and through various programmes provides vocational training, career development, employment and entrepreneurial opportunities to youth from rural and urban communities. LAHI collaborates with dynamic grassroots non-profit organizations to develop and implement innovative projects. In line with this, LAHI has been working in the education sector for past five years with a vision of “To make a difference in the lives of the poor through self-help”.
INDUSA is a family fund created by Dr.Kishan and Kiran Bhatia and is funding various innovative projects we call PTI or Practical Technologies Initiatives to help rural communities developments. Dr. Bhatia is writing on many development issues.
A list of his blogs is available at http://blogs.ivarta.com/blog-columns-kishanbhatia-1.htm
INDUSA is supporting INDUSAPTI to help spread a culture of DIY (do-it-yourself) or LIP (learning by doing INDUSA PTI).
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