Help girls from Low-Income Communities to become Software Engineers and uplift more women

Kajal an 18-year-old girl, a 10th standard student, with less than 6 months of training at Navgurukul - is now working at an MNC with a 4.2 lacs annual package. Based out of Delhi, her father is a rickshaw puller and her mother a domestic cook in Delhi.

Annu hailing from Kishanganj, Bihar is working at Mindtree. Living in a village she barely had access to a good education. Now she wishes to establish another Navgurukul in her own village.

Higher Education - Problems

1. Entrance Examinations: Too few seats in affordable colleges
2. Affordability: Annual fees of college range from 1 to 4 lacs
3. Language: Students from low income groups aren’t comfortable with English, while a majority of higher education material is available only in English, hence students suffer after getting into colleges as well

Led by Abhishek, an IIT- D alumnus (earlier led FranklyMe which raised 2.6M$ and Zumbl which was acqui-hired), NavGurukul brings fresh energy and a unique approach to solving problems in the non-profit sector.

1. Fully residential program for high-growth careers
2. Work with youth between the age of 16-25 with a total family income of less than 8000 inr (rural) or 15000 (urban)
3. Financially sustainable- Students pay forward once they get jobs
4. The capacity of 600 girls in 2020 across three campuses. 160 capacity being set up
5. 100+ students placed in startups and SMEs with monthly 20,000 INR to 60,000 INR salary
6. Launched an eLearning platform - Meraki to deliver Hindi courses

1. We have a capacity of 600 female and 60 male students, four campuses, three different courses, an online application (Meraki) to teach programming, and a hybrid course, and a team of 23.
2. We have launched a one-year course for Graphic Design and another on Facilitation.
3. 90% of our students are women, 70% of our team is women, 60% of salary goes to women, 50% of our team is rural, 50% of our team is our alumni.
4. More than 120 students have got jobs and are together earning more than 3.6 Crores per year.
5. About 1 lac per month is received per month as donations from our alumni. 6 of our alumni have already paid 1.2 lacs which is our suggested amount for paying-forward.