New Delhi: With the objective to unlock the potential of India’s youth, Udhyam Learning Foundation (Udhyam) organized ‘Prayaas – Young Minds, New Possibilities’, an invite-only conference held on January 31 in New Delhi. Prayaas aimed to stimulate a cohesive and collective understanding of the current issues and instil a sense of urgency towards building new pathways for the youth of our country. YuWaah and Amazon supported the event.
Some leaders, including Mekin Maheshwari, Founder of Udhyam Learning Foundation; Priya Agarwal, Co-Founder & Director of Antarang Foundation; Akshay Saxena, Co-Founder of Avanti Fellows; Raj Gilda, Co-Founder of Lend A Hand India, and Aakash Sethi CEO, Quest Alliance addressed the media. Attending the event were change-makers, practitioners and leaders from over 120 of India’s top organizations, including The Nudge Institute, Magic Bus, J-PAL, Tech Mahindra Foundation, STIR education, Nalanda Way, India Literacy Project, Dream-A-Dream, Kshamtalaya, Aflatoun, ACT grants, IndusAction, Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, Omidyar, Veddis, Urban Company, Harappa, Sattva, Commutiny, LabourNet, Dalberg, Meghshala, Amazon, Head Held High, The Education Alliance, Reap Benefit, Kaivalya Education Foundation, StateStreet, Delhi government school students, teachers and other independent people passionate about youth.
Speaking at the event, Hon. Shri. Manish Sisodia, Education Minister and Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi, said, “Indian youth holds the key to the nation’s advancement. Youth must be inspired and provided with opportunities to become life-long learners. Hear them and trust them as they will become the innovators who will change the world in the future. We, as enablers, need to be more experimental in our approach and keep testing new models for educational transformation and bringing them to scale for our country at large. Education needs to be a priority for policy, government and political leaders.”
“Prayaas is an effort to unite like-minded people and organizations who care deeply about the lack of opportunities and pathways for India’s youth to realize their potential. The goal is to build a thriving and supportive ecosystem where individuals feel empowered to define their path. At this event, we came together to reframe the issues relating to education, skilling and employment and commit to creating opportunities for our young people collectively,” said Mr Mekin Maheshwari, Founder of Udhyam Learning Foundation.” More than ever, we need to accelerate change at scale: impacting 20-30% of India’s youth, and do it NOW, before our demographic dividend goes away and turns into a demographic disaster,” he added.
Udhyam Learning Foundation’s (Udhyam) vision is to “Co-create a caring world, where people fearlessly pursue their potential.” Udhyam believes that entrepreneurship is a powerful way to channelize an individual’s potential. Entrepreneurship enables agency and allows individuals to work on their strengths while creating value for the world.
The goal for Udhyam is to build a thriving and supportive ecosystem where every individual feels empowered to define their path.
