FROM DEF ON THE FIELD
Counselling and Support for Rural Women Entrepreneurs
DEF is enabling rural women entrepreneurs to adopt digital tools to improve their businesses and help more micro and nano-enterprises come up in rural Assam. SoochnaPreneur Business Mitra (SBM) Centers in interior villages of Assam have been set up to enable the rural women to scale up their activities from livelihood to entrepreneurship. Read More
Students of Veersinghpur Taking Charge of Their Digital Lives
This story has been written by four students of the Veersinghpur Soochna Adhikar Kendra in Uttar Pradesh. Asmita Kumari, Pinki Kumari, Sonam Kumari and Chandan Kumar have narrated their experience at the centre. We came to know about this centre about a year ago. When we visited we saw that it offers computer training for people of all ages. Mukesh sir, the SoochnaPreneur who runs this centre introduced us to the centre and told us all about it. We were very excited so we immediately enrolled ourselves in the program. Read More
FROM DEF THINK TANK
VISUAL STORY TELLING FROM THE COMMUNITIES
Transforming the Education Ecosystem through STEAM
With 300+ makerspaces across 24 states in India, Digital Empowerment Foundation is working towards strengthening the education ecosystem in the country.
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SoochnaPrenuer Digitally Empowering her Community
Digital Empowerment Foundation’s cadre of 2000 SoochnaPreneurs across 135 districts and 24 states provide e-governance, finance, e-health, online education and various other digital services to community members in their respective villages.
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WHAT ARE WE DISCUSSING
Breaking Gender Stereotypes: Empowering Vulnerable Communities
Ataiya Bano, DEF’s SoochnaPreneur from Bharatpur, Rajasthan shares her story of hardships, struggle, resilience, and success. Coming from a region known for its backwardness, Ataiya fought against all odds to not only fight for her freedom but also to serve and uplift her community.
Revival of the Vanishing Lepcha Language in the 21st Century
Lepcha language is a language spoken by the Lepcha people in Sikkim, West Bengal, Nepal, and Bhutan. Despite several spirited attempts to preserve the language, Lepcha has already effectively been lost in most places.
KNOW ABOUT OUR PROJECTS
Digital Didi
Digital Didi, fighting misinformation and myths around menstruation and providing women at the grassroot level with SmartPads which has a QR code to promote a 100 hour digital literacy course.
Krisarthak
Krisarthak is a program on financial education and counselling (FEC) of the farmers to be delivered digitally using ICT tools. Krisarthak (FEC) is one of the core components of the World Bank-funded Project APART (Assam Agribusiness and Rural Transformation).
OUR PRESENCE ACROSS THE COUNTRY