“Helping Underprivileged Women Write Their Success Stories”,

Well That’s My Story

Dr Sushi Singh

Education to CSR Advocacy

My Journey in Brief

• With an experience spanning over 22 years in education sector, I am now committed to CSR advocacy.

• A Ph. D. holder in Environment Science, associate fellow in H.E. from Lancaster University

• An added experience of Harvard Executive Education in CSR brings expertise to my role as CEO, EducompFoundation and to BRICS CCI as Governing Body Member and Convener, Centre for CSR.

Some beautiful moments

• An interesting journey of life

-Full of challenges,

-Some moments of despair and

-Occasions of celebrations

• Started my career by teaching school children and then moved on to teaching management students

Education is Light

Proud to be pioneer of international exchange program at GDGWI | Lancaster University,

UK

Empowering rural women has been the most gratifying experience

• Urge to give back to society

• Hit upon an idea of ISR (Individual Social Responsibility) and need for developing it in students

• I always believed, preached and practiced that an individual needs to be socially responsible first before she / he talks of CSR

Education is Light

Experience Nepal and UK

Addressing freshers’ in process of churning out true empathetic

corporate leaders

• Life exposed me to the real India while I was working as an educator trying to instill social responsibility amongst students.

• Then one thing happened after another and soon I had made a switchover from educator to social worker.

• Education still continues to be my passion and remains at the core while I am doing social work or practicing CSR.

The Twist

Write injuries in sand, kindness in marble

• Starting from primary school teaching in an undeveloped area of Arunachal

• Starting of a new English medium school from scratch in Bangladesh

• Coming back to India and putting a cheating proof examination system

Challenges, Trials and Tribulations

• Working in Khonsa, a place at Burmaboarder with no basic amenities forestablishing a police pre primaryschool in 1994 was a life timeexperience.

• Felt responsible to share myknowledge & experience in Itanagarto provide computer and high schoolsciences to a school which did nothave a facility. Education, health andhygiene were primary issues.

• Gratified to motivate students fromEnvironmental Protection Society tokeep the city clean and greenpromoted the campaign of “Stopplastic” to prevent the city fromsuffocating.

My experience of North East

Some Aha moments

• When you push people to come out of their comfort zones there is a natural resistance to change, which I have faced often.

• Also passionate people are often looked at by some colleagues with suspicion as if they have a hidden agenda.

• My passion for holistic education had often put me in such situations

Challenges, Trials and Tribulations

Joy of Giving

• Today as CEO of a foundation of India’s largest education solution providing company,

-I engage with students & community on one side

-and in conceptualizing, designing and implementation of social projects on other.

The Journey Continues

Advocating CSR at India International Center, Delhi

I have successfully created adolescent village girls’ brigade in village Jaitpur to help sensitize women and children regarding

• breast cancer,

• self defense and

• capacity building.

The Journey Continues

Caring for Breast Cancer: with empowered women

of Jaitpur village

A Critical Destination

To create women entrepreneurs and self help groups, we follow the steps below

• Education

• Skill building / vocational training

• Financial support

Sharing the dream of empowering women in semi-urban

areas

Major awards and felicitations received include

Appreciation letter by Vice Chancellor of Lancaster University & British Parliament Member.

Trophy of Best blood donor organizer 2013 by Indian Red Cross Society.

Awards & Felicitations

Major awards and felicitations received include

National Pride Award (Dr. S. Radhakrishnan National Memorial Teachers & Media Award) 2013

Women achiever award by NariUdghosh Magazine for selfless contribution in field of education with a focus on women and children

Awards & Felicitations

Humbled to be acknowledged

Bringing young rural talented women to the platform of

acknowledgement

Savvy Honours & Zee News Big Business Ideas

Humbled to be called Community

Queen by

Honored to be called ‘ Community Queen” by Savvy

Launch of the Centre for CSR, BRICS Chambers with a mega event of first edition of National CSR roundtable conference

-in collaboration with Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs

-which attracted participation of genuine CSR practitioners as well as media publicity.

Talk by David Wilcox, alumni of Harvard Business School at NDIM Campus, New Delhi on “CSR in India & Global Perspectives

Latest Initiatives

The greatest value of having good people around you is not what

you get form them, but the better person you become by being

with them

Life is a continuous learning process: Learning from National &

International speakers

• Family has always been a priority as I strongly believe that mother is the first teacher.

• A desire to be together creates opportunities to come together.

• My family has been supportive of my demanding schedules.

• We have found creative ways to spend quality time together.

Work Life Balance – A Daily Challenge

My family, My strength

My future plan is to contribute in my areas of passion which include education, social work and sports.

I keep thinking of ways in which I can club them together and create holistic education models for example.

Future Story

MY JOURNEY

HAS JUST BEGUN

THANK Y U

© Convener, Centre of Excellence in CSR, BRICS CCI 2015

Thanks for being there with me throughout the journey!

Dr. Sushi Singh