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Lighthouse Communities Foundation

Enabling underserved youth in realising their full potential through sustained livelihoods and good citizenship

Headquarters

Maharashtra

Thematic area

Livelihoods

Region(s) of work

Maharashtra, Odisha, Telangana, The Government of NCT of Delhi

Company Size

224

Sub-Theme(s)

Children and Youth, Employment, Skill Development

Categories

Accelerator

About the Organization

“Lighthouse Communities Foundation is on a mission to provide 1 million youth with agency and sustained livelihood opportunities with 1,000 communities demonstrating socio-economic transformation.

In the 6 years since inception, the Lighthouse program has addressed the needs of 25,340 youth who chose to step forward into livelihoods. More than 12,797 youth are enrolled into skilling courses and approximately 10,426 youth are in jobs/self-employment.”

Active Founder(s)

Ms Ruchi Mathur %designation% Ruchi Mathur, Co-Founder & CEO has 27 years of work experience, of which the last 17 have been in the development sector. She started her career in the corporate sector in marketing, HR, and strategy roles. Since 2005, she has held various leadership roles in the non- profit sector namely CRY, Teach for India, Zensar Foundation, and now at Lighthouse Communities, earlier known as Pune City Connect.

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