Lakshmi Kumar

Founder

Founder of ANEW - Association for Non-traditional Employment for Women

Lakshmi Kumar is the founder of ANEW - Association for Non-traditional Employment for Women (1997)^[1], an Indian non-profit working on women & children, livelihood and education from Chennai.

ANEW - Association for Non-traditional Employment for Women

ANEW (Association for Non-traditional Employment for Women) is a Chennai NGO founded in 1997 that trains underprivileged women aged 18-35 in non-traditional employment skills — home nursing, computer applications, accounting software and driving — free of cost, several courses co-certified by partners like the Sundaram Medical Foundation and NIIT Foundation. Its flagship home-nursing course alone has trained over 3,670 women, with more than 14,000 candidates trained across all courses since inception and a consistent 75-80% job-placement rate.

ANEW - Association for Non-traditional Employment for Women reports the following, on its own site:

ANEW's Home Nursing Program achieved an 82% placement rate for 180 trainees in 2024-25

Organisations: 1
Based in: Chennai
Founded: 1997
Press: 2

References

[1] “The dream for ANEW was born in the enthusiasm of our founders Mr. MK Kumar and Mrs. Lakshmi Kumar, assisted every step of the way by Vatsala Ramakrishnan and Dr. Annalakshmi.” — ANEW - Association for Non-traditional Employment for Women. Source

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