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Venkat Sriraman is the co-founder of eVidyaloka (2011)[1], an Indian non-profit working on education and rural & agriculture from Bengaluru.
eVidyaloka
eVidyaloka is a not-for-profit that connects volunteer teachers around the world with children in rural government schools through live online classes in maths, science, English and digital literacy. It reports impacting 2 lakh students across 950+ schools in 17 states, with 70,000+ registered volunteers.
eVidyaloka reports the following, on its own site:
- 2 lakh overall student impact
- 950+ schools benefited across 17 states and 90 districts
- 70,000+ registered volunteers
- 1,000+ job opportunities created at the grassroots level
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- Bengaluru
- Founded
- 2011
- Press
- 2
References
- [1] “Our journey began in January 2011 when Satish and Venkat, colleagues at Microsoft India, united over a shared vision to merge volunteerism and technology, to provide education to children in India's rural villages.” — eVidyaloka. Source
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