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Ketan Deshpande is the founder of Friends Union for Energising Lives (FUEL)[1], an Indian non-profit working on education and livelihood from Pune.
Friends Union for Energising Lives (FUEL)
Founded by Ashoka Fellow Ketan Deshpande, FUEL provides scholarships, career counselling and job-oriented skills training in areas like IT, finance and digital marketing to underprivileged youth from Pune and across Maharashtra. Its work has been recognised by the state government and it has since been listed on India's Social Stock Exchange.
Friends Union for Energising Lives (FUEL) reports the following, on its own site:
- 1,252,188+ students reached
- 3,363+ schools and colleges partnered
- 17+ states covered
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- Pune
- Founded
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- Press
- 2
References
- [1] “Founded by Dr. Ketan Deshpande, FUEL (Friends Union for Energizing Lives) was started as a guiding institution to solve problems that he himself faced after his 12th grade.” — Friends Union for Energising Lives (FUEL). Source
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