Putting The Power In The Hands Of Women: How ThinkZone is Empowering Women & Children With A ‘Digital Box’
ThinkZone was founded in 2014 and the startup has been providing quality, affordable and remedial education by the use of tablets.
- One such entrepreneur who is empowering women and children in the education segment, across the hinterland of Odisha, is Binayak Acharya, founder of ThinkZone.
- Apart from this, offline technology, teaching activities and class management tools via an Android app, help the women in provide quality early-grade education programs to the children aged between three to 10 years.
- Starting with their women teachers, who undergo a pre-service training program for one week, and monthly in-service training program which happens for one day.
- According to the company, around 2,800 children in 375 villages across the three districts are enrolled for this programme.
- Currently, ThinkZone is working with 101 women across three districts of Odisha namely Cuttack, Kendrapara and Bhadrak.
- The startup claims to have clocked in revenues of INR 22.23 Lakh ($31.7K) for last financial year (FY17) and is looking to close this financial year with annual revenue of around INR 85 Lakh ($121.5K).