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Abhilash Medhi and Blind Education and Rehabilitation Development Organization (BERDO)
The London School of Economics and Political Science
Abhilash Medhi will be working this summer as an AP fellow with Blind Education and Rehabilitation Development Organization (BERDO) in Dhaka, Bangladesh. BERDO works to empower disabled people by providing them access to micro-credit, gainful employment, medical facilities and ICT. During this fellowship, Abhilash will work with them to clearly define their social justice agenda, to develop their micro-credit programme and to explore ways to aid disabled people with the use of ICT.
Abhilash is currently pursuing a Masters degree in Development Studies at The London School of Economics and Political Science. Prior to beginning his studies at LSE, Abhilash was working as an Assistant Systems Engineer with Tata Consultancy Services in Mumbai, India. He holds a Bachelors degree in Civil Engineering from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, India.
He has worked as a volunteer for Child Rights and You in Mumbai, India where he raised awareness about anti-child labour legislations introduced by the Government of India, helped build alliances against child labour, helped seek out micro-credit schemes for women living in an urban slum and participated in a campaign to improve their access to public distribution programmes. He was also a volunteer at the 2nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD 2007), where he got an opportunity to interact with researchers in both social and technical sciences working with ICT applied to development and got a sense of the ways in which technology, and ICT in particular, can play an important role in supplying information, disseminating knowledge and establishing communication – the core elements of sustainable development.
Abhilash is originally from Assam, an Indian state bordering Bangladesh. He is fascinated by how a country that was once famously described as “an international basket case” and that only grabs newspaper headlines when hit by cyclones also holds enormous promise as a stakeholder in global commodity chains and is the birthplace of micro-credit finance. He looks forward to working with BERDO and believes that the fellowship will give him an opportunity to use his skills, knowledge and diverse competencies gained through his education, work and volunteership.
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