India

How COVID-19 adds another layer to struggles for Girls’ Education in Rajasthan/India

By Dr. Geeta Deshmukh, LGT Impact Fellow at Educate Girls, India Being from Public health background, I have always believed that education is one of the primary social determinants of…more

10th May 2021,

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A Data Science Engineer’s Fellowship Journey in the Post-COVID-19 Scenario

By Sutapa Bhattacharya, LGT Impact Fellow for Educate Girls, India When I applied for the LGT Impact Fellowship in mid-March of last year, it was a different world altogether. There…more

28th February 2021,

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Testimonial by Saumya Saxena, Fellow at Varthana, India

Drawing from his management consulting and not for profit experience in the urban development and education sectors, Saumya was tasked with augmenting the process of scaling the management consulting for…more

28th October 2020,

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Testimonial by Tracey Albert, Fellow at Aangan Trust, India

Having worked in the social impact space for over 7 years, Tracey’s mission during her Fellowship was to assist the leadership team at Aangan Trust, in building a platform that…more

28th September 2020,

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Empowering communities towards sustainable impact

By Tracey Albert, LGT Impact Fellow for Aangan Trust, Mumbai, India Aangan works in 15 hotspots across Mumbai, wherein the city’s drastic economic disparity is placing its vulnerable children at…more

21st July 2020,

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What does a day of an LGT Impact Fellow look like?

Fellows of the LGT Impact Fellowship 2019 cohort are approaching the last months of their 1-year engagements. By now the Fellows have fully immersed in their roles at host organizations…more

3rd April 2020,

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Varthana and the Science of Building a Social Impact Business

By Saumya Saxena, LGT Impact Fellow for Varthana, India What do you want to learn from this fellowship? ... Andrew Papp asked me during my LGT Impact Fellowship interview. As…more

21st January 2020,

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Financial Consulting for Private Schools in India

LGT Impact Fellow Spotlight: Smiti Sahoo Smiti is working as a Fellow for our Portfolio Organisation Varthana in India. Thinking of Schools, the initial associations that come up are academic…more

13th June 2019,

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LGT Impact Fellow Spotlight: Amandeep Singh

Amandeep is a 2012 LGT Impact Fellow and currently works at Clinton Health Access Initiative in Cambodia as Director - Country Support, Global Vaccines Delivery The LGT Impact Fellowship offers…more

22nd February 2019,

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Journeying into the (Un)known

By Gayatri Suri – LGT Impact Fellow 2018 “Follow your passion” – a phrase that is more elusive than it sounds. This phrase has challenged me time and again in…more

7th January 2019,

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Sliding Down the Indian Rabbit Hole

by Pete Troiano - LGT Impact Fellow 2016/17 I remember the exact moment it started. My bank card got rejected from every ATM I tried to use. The screen displayed…more

21st November 2017,

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Social Mapping – How colorful hues are making door-to-door surveys more effective

by Prianka Sharma - LGT Impact Fellow 2017 A 4 hour journey from Indore in the wee hours of the morning and we arrived in Pipal Tola – a village…more

13th October 2017,

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