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The company is in shock about the sudden death of MERIT staff member, Sahar Bano, who succumbed to high fever induced by infection and a pre-existing illness. Sahar, 21, went through Anudip's training program and joined the company in April 2011. Our condolences to the bereaved family and her co-workers.

Anudip’s work is positioned to bring livelihoods to 100,000 educated but unemployed youth and women of rural India who have largely been untouched byIndia’s growth.

Anudip Foundation has received the prestigious NASSCOM Social Innovation Honors 2012 award from Kapil Sibal, India's Union Minister for IT, HR and Telecom before a audience of the cream of the country's IT industry at the NASSCOM Leadership Forum in Mumbai. NASSCOM is India's National Association of Software and Services Companies.

James Nyoro, Managing Director, Africa Region and head of Rockefeller Foundation's Impact Sourcing initiative visited Anudip's MERIT projects center at Metiabruz.

Omidyar Network announced a grant of up to USD $650,000 to the Anudip Foundation. Anudip will use the four-year grant to scale its skills-training and entrepreneur-development operations in eastern India.

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In the fall of 2010, Anudip officially launched an intensive 6 to 8 week training program called MAST, an acronym that stands for Market-Aligned Skills Training. As of March 31, 2011, we have trained and placed over 600 graduates. Our targets for the current 2011/2012 fiscal year have us training and placing over 2500 students. In addition, we plan to expand our training center locations to roughly 20 over this period

Anudip has recently hired 15 new specially trained graduates from its MAST program to join our growing work team at Metiabruz, a predominantly Muslim area about 1 hour outside of Kolkata. Our Metiabruz MERIT center has now grown from 20 to 35 people, and is 100% staffed by local women who we are thrilled to have as part of the Anudip community. Most are earning their first livelihood and still living at home supporting their families.

On April 8th, Anudip CEO Radha Basu and Business Development Manager Jessica Sawhney co-presented a multimedia talk entitled "A Holistic Approach to Enterprise Development: A Case Study from India." Radha and Jessica showcased Anudip's holistic approach to training, placement, entrepreneurship and project services, and how Anudip provides an innovative model for addressing poverty in rural areas and urban slums.