Vigyan Ashram, Pabal
Vigyan Ashram (meaning "student's home for learning science and technology") is a center of the Indian Institute of Education (IIE) Pune. IIE is a well known institution in the field of education. Over the years Vigyan Ashram has developed training programs for rural youth in several innovative technologies and has successfully helped to commercialize them. More than 800 diploma holders from Vigyan Ashram have become entrepreneurs and the job placement rate is almost 90%. To increase the pace and quality of the education delivery system, Vigyan Ashram has adopted information technology successfully.

It is one of the two centers in India, and one of the six across the globe, to receive technical support and equipment for FAB-LAB (a hands-on laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) that provides the technology, typically open source, needed to build just about anything from inexpensive and readily available materials). For more information about Vigyan Ashram, please visit http://www.vigyanashram.com/.

Students Welfare Association, Pune
Student Welfare Association (SWA) has been working in the education field for the past several years in Pune. In 2005 SWA completed 50 years of exemplary work. The organization provides residential and boarding facilities to about 500 college students, including 100 girls, coming from rural Maharashtra. Thousands of students have benefited from SWA's unique facilities and environment. Many of them have made distinguishing contributions in personal and public life. For more information about Student Welfare Association please visit http://www.samiti.org/.

Past Partners:
Doorstep School, Mumbai
Doorstep School, Mumbai has been working in non-formal education and community development in the slum communities of Mumbai for over 15 years. Hundreds of children and families have benefited from Doorstep programs. Several of them have been able to enroll into formal schools. To learn more about Doorstep School, please visit
http://www.doorstepschool.org/dss/home.php.

Committee of Resource Organizations, Mumbai
The Committee of Resource Organizations (CORO) has been working in community development, adult literacy, and women's empowerment issues in the slums of Mumbai for nearly twenty years. CORO works in one of the biggest Dalit ("those at the bottom of the caste system") dominated slum communities in the North-East region of Mumbai. It has excellent community outreach and has promoted 300 grassroot women's groups with a membership of about 30,000 women. The Indian government, UNESCO and UNDP have acknowledged the excellent work done by CORO. To learn more about CORO, please visit http://www.unesco.org/courier/2000_03/uk/dossier/txt15.htm.