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Three friends launched an edtech start-up, in 2020, to provide high-quality, but affordable education. Students would not confront any financial difficulties when enrolled in a course of Collegeshala. All educational establishments were obliged to halt offline education during the COVID pandemic shutdown. Even now, educational institutions are not operating at full capacity. Many EdTech start-ups capitalised on the situation by developing a variety of online courses for students. Students may acquire new skills from the comfort of their own homes thanks to online classes. Shouradeep Chakraborty, Upamanyu Chatterjee, and Mohamed Fazal Mustafa, three classmates from Kolkata, West Bengal, founded Collegeshala in 2020. The three buddies are undergraduate students who founded the company in order to establish a localised learning ecology. Shouradeep saw that many pupils in his batch were unable to receive adequate instruction owing to financial and logistical constraints. The...

The Golden Heart Foundation was founded by seven friends who wanted to empower marginalized women by opening two community kitchens and skill development centers. In 2015, seven friends decided that instead of spending an evening out, they should use their position of affluence to perform some 'hands-on' work. These friends then joined hands to build the Golden Heart Foundation in Pune. The organisation has grown from a humble beginning to presently operate two community kitchens that feed over 12,000 people each month, as well as two skill development centres where women are taught vocational skills such as tailoring, English speaking, basket making, and beautification training. Over 250 women in Pune's Budhwar Peth and National Institute of Bank Management (NIBM) area have been empowered as a result of this. "The seeds were sown for me many years ago when I spent time working with several old age homes and orphanages in Pune as a college student,...

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