AIDA is a learning program challenging today's youth to become highly skilled, employable, and socially engaged leaders of tomorrow.
AIDA is a social enterprise that provides free software dev training for brilliant but underprivileged young women, subsidized with fee-based corporate employability skills trainings.
8. AIDA
Learning program challenging today's youth to
become highly skilled, employable, and socially
engaged leaders of tomorrow
Social Enterprise
Provides free software dev training for brilliant but
underprivileged young women, subsidized with fee-
based corporate employability skills trainings
9. EDUCATION FOR LIFE
Life Skills
Empathy, compassion, ethics, civic
awareness, facing change, causing change
Job Skills
Communication, leadership, team work, critical
thinking, networking, lifelong learning
Tech Skills
Web, mobile, game, animation, and application
development; open source
10. EDUCATION FOR LIFE
Life Skills
Essential component of all trainings
Job Skills
Paid corporate training for young men & women;
Also, included in free Tech Skills training
Tech Skills
Free for underprivileged young women; by
international experts
11. TRAINING
Real-World Competencies
Innovative challenge and project based learning; Hard + soft skills; Contests
Youth as Catalysts
Social awareness as core learning component; youth-led Service Day
Near-Term Benefit
Better jobs; high growth career path
Long Term Impact
Social transformation
12. OPPORTUNITY = DEVELOPMENT
To learn by doing
Become lifelong learners
To be the change
Become active citizens in the community
14. Background
2004 – 2013
youth social change trainings all over the world
2007 – 2008
saheli.org essay contests in kangayam, tamil nadu
15. AIDA – STARTUP PHASE
2011 in September; 2012 in August & December
First Development Academy in Coimbatore
Finalize program and curriculum (v2.0)
Focus on startup, sustainability, and scale
16. AIDA 10 YEAR PLAN
100 Locally-Owned Centers across India
200+ young women entrepreneurs
100 marginalized young women per center/year
Impacting 100,000+ youth
20. AIDA
education for life
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February 24, 2013
Photos in the presentation are from
various AIDA programs and activities
Notes de l'éditeur
Based on Census 2011. Sex selective abortions are still prevalent in India, despite it being illegal. The practice of aborting female foetuses not only stemsfrom a demeaning attitude to women, but reinforces it. (BBC on Sex Selective Abortionhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/abortion/medical/selective_1.shtml#h2)
India GDP from World Bank through Google's Public Data Explorer:http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&met_y=ny_gdp_mktp_cd&idim=country:IND&dl=en&hl=en&q=india+gdp
GDP from World Bank through Google's Public Data Explorer:http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&met_y=ny_gdp_mktp_cd&idim=country:IND&dl=en&hl=en&q=india+gdpMurthy said the quality of English of the engineering graduates that IT companies employ is poor. "Their ability to write and communicate with Western clients is not as high as it used to be 20 years ago. Therefore, it has already affected our competence. However, we can reverse it," he said. (I feel sad about Indian economy: Narayana Murthy - http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/I-feel-sad-about-Indian-economy-Narayana-Murthy/articleshow/14066166.cms)About 64 per cent of employers in India are not satisfied with the skill sets of fresh engineering graduates, it added. (Skill shortage presents hurdle to India's growth: World Bank - http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2011-06-05/news/29623206_1_skill-shortage-skill-gaps-india-ranks-second)
Photo from AIDA 2011
Photo from essay contest for high-school students in 2007See more on the contest and winning essays at http://www.saheli.org/
Photo from AIDA 2011
Photo from essay contest for high-school students in 2007– cover art of prize-winning essay; done within the time provided. :)See more on the contest and winning essays at http://www.saheli.org/
Photo from AIDA 2011 – playing on the ipad during break
Photo from AIDA 2011 – playing a game as part of the class
Photo from Information & Communication Technology (ICT) training in Afghanistan (2004)