Project Potential

Project Potential

Creating better employment opportunities for underprivileged youth

About

In Bihar, the more educated you are, the more likely you are to be unemployed, with over 25% of college graduates currently unemployed - compared to 2.5% for those who have completed primary school and 8.4% for those who have completed middle school. Project Potential is working towards alleviation of unemployment, currently in the state of Bihar by inculcating an entrepreneurial mindset in communities engaged in a wide range of livelihoods.

People

Zubin Sharma

Zubin graduated from University of Pennsylvania in Political Science where he was a Penn Social Impact House Fellow. he is also an Acumen Fellow and has been living and working in rural Bihar for the last five years. engineering graduate from University of Maryland and has worked at Impact Silverspring and ARC California.

Details

Livelihood
Kishangunj, Bihar
East India
Open
2017
http://www.projectpotential.org/

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