Samyak Chakrabarty
Co-founderFounder of Nimaya Foundation
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Samyak Chakrabarty is the co-founder of Nimaya Foundation (2021)[1], an Indian non-profit working on education, livelihood and women & children from Mumbai.
Nimaya Foundation
Nimaya is a non-profit career accelerator co-founded in 2021 by Navya Naveli Nanda and Samyak Chakrabarty that trains young women from low-income and restrictive backgrounds in generative-AI tools and 21st-century workplace skills. Its two programmes, #GenAIReadyNaari and the #FutureReadyNaari Fellowship, combine classroom training, capstone projects with companies and placement support. Nimaya runs as a programme of the Foundation for Future Ready Nari and has signed an MoU with the Government of India's IndiaAI Mission.
Nimaya Foundation reports the following, on its own site:
- 10,000+ Naaris Trained
- 5 States - Gujarat, Maharashtra, Uttar-Pradesh, Haryana & Rajasthan
- Enabling 10,000 (and counting) young women from restrictive backgrounds to build meaningful careers in the future of work
- 4,000 farmers' daughters skilled for new-age enterprises - Faridabad & Kurukshetra
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- Mumbai
- Founded
- 2021
- Press
- 2
References
- [1] “Co-founded by Navya Naveli Nanda and Samyak Chakrabarty in 2021, Nimaya stands for a simple but powerful belief” — Nimaya Foundation. Source
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