Karuna Fellowship

Introduction
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Karuna Fellowship provides creative response for women empowerment through 3 pillars, viz.
life skills, livelihoods and digital skill development

Pillars of Solution
Prevent fuelling of existing cycles of inequality

Life Skills Livelihoods Digital Skills

Enable women to respond to Empower women to choose their

inequality and violence with Build digital skills through
livelihood either by being job
actions that arise from compassion exclusive and intensive virtual
ready or start-up ready for a
and freedom with pro-social skills support program and LnD inputs to
sector of their choice in their own
and life skills create future-ready netizens
geography
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Karuna Fellowship is a 23 months program that aims to enable women to be cadre of

compassionate change agents who contribute to large-scale impact and be financially
independent

Objectives of Fellowship
2-year program for learning and impact

Entrepreneurship/ Compassionate Change

Tech-First Impact at Scale
Employment Agents

Enhancing livelihood chances and

Leveraging technology to create Creating a strong cadre of
economic independence of women
large scale social impact in areas transformed, compassionate and
and thus, their family in
of education, livelihood & health empowered women change agents
vulnerable and deprived conditions
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Karuna Fellow, go through intensive learning experiences that build knowledge, provide experience
of ecosystem and reflective experiences to explore yourself as you go through the journey

Learning experiences as a Karuna Fellow

Knowledge Building Experience Building Reflective Practices

• LAP to implement learnings • 3 Bootcamps over 2 years

• Digital workshops and
• 2 Learning Journeys • Daily/weekly/monthly
trainings
• 1 Business Project Devt. to debriefs
• Online courses
explore converting business • Mentorship with a successful
• Reading clubs
idea into reality entrepreneur/ intrapreneur
• Guest lectures
• Internship for 14-21 days
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Karuna Fellowship enables rural women to overcome multi-layered barriers through life, leadership, digital
and employability skill-building

Karuna Fellowship 2.0

Virtual field support for

Operational model Learning Curriculum
social impact projects

Hybrid/ Boot camps, Workshops and expert

Work with Big bets to support
Work from Office/ sessions on five immersions:
governments and corporates for meeting
Work from Home Self, Home, Digital, Livelihood and
program objectives
with field immersion Entrepreneurship

23 months Fellowship / 8 hrs per day 1 day* per week 5 days* per week
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Self Immersion Livelihood Immersion Sangha Immersion

Self Awareness Self Compassion Entrepreneurship Communicative Collaboration Leading others

English
Becoming an Entrepreneur

Self Management Self Protection Problem Solving Managing Change

Marketing Operations
Management Management

Finance
Home Immersion Management Digital Immersion
Business Project Launching

Becoming Job Ready

Compassion for Family Science Digital Literacy Office Suits

others

Pre Selection Skills Workplace Skills

Pathway Specific Learning &
Relationship Conflict Social Media Media Editing
Internship
Thank you!