HWGO: Imparting Digital Literacy to women living at the bottom of pyramid!

HWGO: Imparting Digital Literacy to women living at the bottom of pyramid!

HWGO: A Summary

In month of October, HWGO programme has helped 75000 to go online and experience the virtual world. The programme is presently on full swing with training programme for women belonging to students, self-help groups (SHGs); Panchayat samiti; women entrepreneurs; women NGO functionaries; dropout girls and housewives.

After the completion of October 2014, through Community Information Resource Center (CIRC) we have covered approx. over 75000 of women; adolescent and dropout girls across India. Though Google’s HWGO program was running on full paced since last two months in all CIRC across India. But, due to too many festivals and holidays in last month our work got affected. However we succeeded to achieve above mentioned numbers. Now in November 5, 2014, we making some new strategies and will implement that to achieve left numbers. Hereby, few location from where the numbers have been achieved are:

Assam	Nagaon, Sonapur, Guwahati
Bihar	West Champaran, Muzaffarpur, Vaishali, Katihar, Kishanganj
Madhya Pradesh	Shivpuri, Chanderi
Rajasthan	Alwar, Baran, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Ajmer, Rajsamand
Jharkhand	Ranchi, Giridih
Orissa	Bhadrak
Tripura	Panisagar
Meghalaya	Tura
Andhra Pradesh	Vishakhapatnam, Hyderabad
Uttar Pradesh	Farrukhabad
Uttarakhand	Tehri Garhwal
Punchab	Chandigarh
Jammu & Kashmir	Jammu

Training Methodology

We have adopted various methodologies for achieving the target:

#1- Workshop Model for villagers/SHG groups

#2- Seminar Model for social workers @ Panchayat level

#3 Partnership Model with grass root NGOs, Govt. Schools

#4 Short Programme at each CIRCs

Action Plan and Support

Considering the lack of connectivity and electricity issue in remote areas, we are providing internet dongles, laptops, projectors, transportation and additional manpower to speed up and achieve target within the deadline. But, for electricity backup to run projector we are banking on local generator supply. Moreover, for achieving big numbers, we are also trying to engage govt. agencies and make HWGO training mandatory in all girls’ schools in few states like Bihar. All documentation is this regard is already being done simultaneously. Beside this we are also engaging local NGOs as partner in this mission to achieve targets. From the month of October we have engaged 25-50 interns who is work in different locations and also we increasing the partnership with different NGO’s to provide HWGO training in different locations of India. With all of the action taken by us we will surely achieve the target to provide HWGO trainings to 1,80,000 women by the end of December 2014.

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