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Self Employment
Local SMS Community Newsletter for Promotion of Self-Employment
Challenges Entered:
Project Idea:
It's a Location based Citizen centric Information & knowledge focused Update & alert service through SMS which is free for the members and which is run by a local social entrepreneur. We are trying to provide ‘One Social Assistant cum Entrepreneur' for every 1000 families.
Qualification of Local Social Entrepreneur (Mobile Journalist)
School-college dropped outs
Opportunity less street wanderer
Socio-politically sadden youths
Financially backwards youths
Local SMS Community Newsletter for Promotion of Self-Employment
Challenges Entered:
We promote SMS based Free Newsletter in every small locality to alert, inform, update local citizens with social, political, cultural, governmental information.We are trying to develop a Local Micro-Media through which citizens can be weaved together with a thread of SMS - affectionately.This is an integrated, interconnected & interactive community newsletter which is run by local 10th-12th failed, school college dropped out youngster who earns $ 100-200 monthly.
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