ABOUT HUMANA PEOPLE TO PEOPLE INDIA
HPPI is a development organisation registered as a not-for-profit company under section 25 of the Companies Act, 1956, since May 1998. It is a non-political, non-religious organisation working for the holistic development of the under-privileged and marginalised people in rural and urban India.
We work through social development and poverty alleviation interventions by coordinated, strategic approaches focusing on school education and teacher education, life skills, improved livelihoods, health and sanitation, women empowerment and environment protection. Aiming at, creating equal opportunities and caring communities, we work together with all people involved in local communities through scale programmes covering several districts or entire states.
What Is 'BridgeIT' Initiative?
BridgeIT is a unique intervention by the Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). It aims to bridge the digital divide between urban and rural India. In 2020 TCS partnered with Humana People to People India (HPPI) to take this initiative to the aspirational districts of Jharkhand. Latehar and Lohardaga districts of the Jharkhand were zeroed in for the implementation of this programme by TCS and HPPI. Within this geography 32 villages were further chosen and scouted for women between 18 to 32 years of age who had completed grade-XII school and had functional knowledge of computers. 32 women were selected and provided with seven days of intensive training in operating computers as well as entrepreneurship. Equipped with these skills they were also given two laptops each, with a mouse and relevant software. The new entrepreneurs were given a mandate to go and start their own business while HPPI and TCS have been supporting them in terms of skilling, constant advice and a stipend for 36 months. All the 32 women went back and took up the challenge of starting a new chapter of their life on their own. It was a rough ride for all of them. Fighting social pressures, individual doubts and apprehensions and financial woes they scripted a collective story as inspiring as anyone has ever heard.
What Is 'BridgeIT' Initiative?
BridgeIT is a unique intervention by the Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). It aims to bridge the digital divide between urban and rural India. In 2020 TCS partnered with Humana People to People India (HPPI) to take this initiative to the aspirational districts of Jharkhand. Latehar and Lohardaga districts of the Jharkhand were zeroed in for the implementation of this programme by TCS and HPPI. Within this geography 32 villages were further chosen and scouted for women between 18 to 32 years of age who had completed grade-XII school and had functional knowledge of computers. 32 women were selected and provided with seven days of intensive training in operating computers as well as entrepreneurship. Equipped with these skills they were also given two laptops each, with a mouse and relevant software. The new entrepreneurs were given a mandate to go and start their own business while HPPI and TCS have been supporting them in terms of skilling, constant advice and a stipend for 36 months. All the 32 women went back and took up the challenge of starting a new chapter of their life on their own. It was a rough ride for all of them. Fighting social pressures, individual doubts and apprehensions and financial woes they scripted a collective story as inspiring as anyone has ever heard.
