
Session with Self-Help Group in Khubavali Village
We initiated a project regarding women empowerment through technology literacy. We created a curriculum to teach women in Khubavali villages, Pune how to use technology efficiently as well as develop basic skills that are beneficial to them, focusing on financial literacy. We have done interviews with women to identify their needs and wants. We had detailed planning sessions about ethics of our project and implementing human-centric design approach to our outreach project. We paid special attention to not assume people’s lives, problems, and needs and tried to base the content of our session dominantly on the input we got from the women. Our lesson plans included how to use different social media to advertise women’s self-help group businesses, how to do online banking, how to fundraise online, learning efficient ways of farming (use of fertilizers or equipment etc.), learning stitching and developing language skills in English and Hindi through online courses and videos, how to use google accounts, and how to use mobile phones (texting, calling. searching etc.). We received funds from Changemaker foundation to implement the project in 2019-2020 school year.
