Building Resilient Communities
With empathy, commitment, and care
How We Build Resiliency
Invest in youth, employ data, create partnerships, and enhance capacity for a sustainable exit
People
Putting youth at the heart of development
We recognise young people can play an important role in effecting deep community change and through our leadership, apprenticeship and mentorship programs we hope to enact this. By collaborating with individuals, small startups and corporates we create interest-aligned apprenticeships, enhance capacity in relevant job skills, and create vast social networks.
Data for Action
Delivering social impact effectively
We collect data on the community to identify the challenges faced, the factors that contribute to these challenges, and the people who are affected. We provide a comprehensive picture of the community to the community and its stakeholders allowing them to make informed decisions and to create better solutions for tomorrow.
Enabling the Ecosystem
Catalysing change and harnessing creativity
We break-down silos between NGOs through our cluster system. By bringing NGOs together with a shared vision, we can ensure continuity of care, efficient use of resources and more inclusive programs. We create partnerships with other NGOs, individuals and social entrepreneurs to bring in new innovative solutions and ideas.
Sustainability
Building the foundation for a better future
We design and execute collaborative projects across the active NGOs in the community. This has resulted in a safe space, adult education program and makerslab. We aim to empower the youth and build NGO capacity to hand ownership to the leaders with guidance of the long standing NGOs.
What We Believe
Our Mission
To build an empowered community that is united to solve pervasive, complex issues and overcome discrimination and marginalization through skill enrichment programming, mobilizing resources, streamlining access to services and opportunities, and advocating for community rights.
Our Values
1. Sustainability. We are designed to place the autonomy and volition in the hands we are working with. We give selected and trained community leaders increasing decision making power central to our operations, with the goal of a sustainable and effective hand-over to the community.
2. Transparency. Fundraising and usage, strategic direction, community mobilization, and partner coordination all require strong bonds of trust. We act with authenticity, honesty, and integrity to strengthen these bonds.
3. Accountability. Development requires a sincere investment from all stakeholders. We have an ethical and moral responsibility to create an impact in the communities we serve and expect an equal enthusiasm from all involved parties.
4. Data-driven decision making. We work systematically and smartly, leveraging information to create more targeted and informed decisions.Meet the Team
Gayatri Vijaysimha
Co-Founder
Gayatri is passionate about creating grassroot-level change through innovation. Driven by the need to democratize services, Gayatri creates equitable and inclusive capabilities to solve problems using people's’ ingenuity, science, and technology. She has run successful projects in the Middle East, transforming the delivery of aid with the UNHCR, played a pivotal role in the founding of Amnesty International India, and is currently a Brown Institute for Advanced Research Fellow. Gayatri holds an MA in Globalisation and Labour from the Tata School of Social Sciences, Mumbai.
Shaun Robinson
Co-Founder
Shaun believes deeply in the innate potential of every individual, and strives to provide the skills and connections to bring it to fruition. He leverages his analytic skills to bring efficiency and believes each person is entitled to exceptional service.
Shaun spent the last year at an Edu-tech start-up in Kolkata, designing and implementing a contextualized curriculum to over 500 students. He has experience in impact investing, is an IDEX Fellow, and began his career with Deloitte Consulting where he specialized in Project Management. Shaun holds a BS in Finance and Accounting from Bentley University.
- The Blog
Our successes, failures, and reflections
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