Thursday, January 14, 2010

Friends from Kuppam




For the record I worked from 2003 May to September 2005 in the Kuppam HP i-community Project. The project employed many young people who belonged to Kuppam to work in the various projects of Kuppam. Even after the closure of the project many them kept in touch with me. I followed their careers over the past 4 years and I am impressed  by the success all of them have achieved.

Of the Kuppam Young brigade one of the most noteworthy has been Venkatachalapathi. Venkatachalapathi started his career in Bangalore selling Reliance post paid connections door to door to shop keepers in Bangalore. Soon he got a job with the HP service centre in Indra Nagar. His next job was with a partner to Wipro and he was responsible for tech support to one of Wipro's customers. Now he works directly with HP and manages MS Exchange Server for one of HP's overseas customers. 

Some of the others like Amar and Karuna whose photographs are included in the blog have also done well.

Amar was passionate about computers and after BASIX took over the Kuppam project, he was given the responsibility of supporting the entire IT equipment comprising of Computers, Servers, Wifi radio equipment of the Project. Amar now works for a BPO initiative of BASIX a leading microfinance organisation

Karuna after the closure of the project moved to n-Logue and thereafter to COMAT. In COMAT he was part of the team that established the  Nemmadi Project( setting up of 800 telecentres in Karnataka).

While it is a sad commentary that the Kuppam HP i-community initiative was not sustainable, it made a positive impact on the young people who were employed in the program and later moved on to better things in life

These photographs were taken on August 30th 2008. . The photograph on the top is of the Neelamma the Village Photographer. The photo below Neelamma is of Karuna and his bride lavanya . Karuna got married on 20th August. The photo in the bottom is of Amar and his wife Krishnaveni, Amar and Krishnaveni got married in February . 

For more information on Kuppam Kuppam Factoids

For information on the Kuppam HP i-community program Kuppam HP i-community

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