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  Project Disha (meaning direction or path) provides career guidance to young boys and girls from rural communities since career guidance and counseling facilities are usually available only in urban centers and rural students are deprived of them. Career counseling includes aptitude testing, individual/group counseling, and year-long capacity building workshops. Ongoing contact, through events organized every month, feedback from career counselors, and mentoring from professionals from diverse backgrounds help the participants to make appropriate choices about their future career. A quarterly publication is also planned to reach out to larger numbers of students.

Partner Organization
Students Welfare Association (SWA)
SWA has been working in the education field for the past several years in Pune. In 2005 SWA will completes 50 years of its 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.

Anjali Anturkar, a member of SWA's Managing Committee, acts as a Project Coordinator. Anjali was, till recently, a Finance Director of Michigan State University. Anjali has been actively associated with SWA.

 

As a part of the career counseling program, career experts from cities like Mumbai and Pune conduct aptitude tests and information sessions in the villages. Over 400 students have benefited from such workshops.

 

 

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