U n' I with Rashmi Shetty- Sugandha Sukrutaraj

Our guest today is Sugandha Sukrutaraj, founder of AMBA and author of its pan-India copyrighted © curriculum. An Ashoka Fellow with 18 years of experience in developing a sustainable livelihood solution for adults with moderate to severe intellectual disability, the focus was on visual data entry and peer training. This, along with 11 years of experience in Aviation & IT, gives her the mainstream know-how for enabling sustainability. AMBA’s concept has been shared with 475 Special Institutions across 25 states in India, helping them become small hubs for Learning and Earning. She was awarded the Ashoka Fellowship in 2007 for her initiative in conceiving the holistic AMBA concept for the moderate to severely intellectually challenged adults who do not have the social skills to work directly in the mainstream. AMBA can only be sustainable with work, with the presence of community participation from individuals and mainstream companies to draw -upon their network to sustain work … Listen in as she shares her journey, the proud moments, & the current challenge. She along with the team at Amba invites Volunteering Partnerships to generate more opportunities and possibilities of work post Global Automation. Appreciating the Smart minds participating in exploring more opportunities of back-end work from the volunteers’ Network, Sugandha believes that “This support is critical to AMBA and the community they serve going forward as Existing Processes could get further automated. Their target is to enable work to 150000 beneficiaries by 2030.” AMBA’s Accolades: BHARATHI SRINIVASAN runner up CII Women exemplar 2017 for education. CEGEO TEKKAL is the winner of the Hellen Kellar Award in 2016 for being the outstanding employee of the year. JEET BOPANNA has won the Maciver Rotary Award online during the pandemic PRIYA CHANDRASHEKARAN manages the virtual curriculum training and is the winner of CII women exemplar 2013 for education. Women Transforming India Awards (WTI) 2021 Ms. Sugandha Sukrutaraj Senior Citizen Entrepreneur Award 2020 – Runner-up Digital India Award in the category ‘Good for India-Digital Innovation in Skills and Employment solutions’ AMBA - The Collaboration between Oklahoma University, UNHQ & AMBA to take AMBA Global (beginning 2017-18)