American India Foundation (AIF)

TiE-Social Entrepreneurs Group (TiE-SE)

Present

Building A Self Reliant Community Through Enterprise

A Talk by Ved Arya

Founder and Managing Trustee, SRIJAN

Monday, August 24, 2009

Venue: Room 4-231, MIT 

Registration:     $ 10    (Including dinner)

Buy tickets/reservation using the following link:
http://www.lokvani.com/vedarya

Program:    
6:30 PM - 7:00 PM:      Networking / Dinner
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM     Talk by Ved Arya                                                      8:00 PM - 8:30 PM:      Question & Answer Session

Ved Arya is a serial social entrepreneur and a long-time program partner of AIF. He has represented the Indian NGO sector in the annual meetings to the Board of Governors of the World Bank and the IMF. He is also an advisor to many bilateral and multilateral organizations including the World Bank, DfiF, Sida and SDC.

He founded SRIJAN [http://www.srijanindia.org/] a not for profit agency committed to promote rural community institutions to manage water resources and market linked livelihoods. SRIJANites design and implement water resource management and market oriented livelihoods projects for 18000 rural poor families. It has 60 professionals working in eleven districts of three Indian states. It aims to reach and remove poverty among 100,000 families by 2011. Major private foundations including AIF, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Ford Foundation, Deshpande Foundation and Tata Trusts, and Central and State governments in India support SRIJAN?s path breaking work. Ved has a Management degree from IIM Ahmedabad and a B.Tech from IIT Kanpur.

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