How Medha is bridging gap in skilling youth and making them employable

India, they both felt, was at the epicenter of the global employability crisis. 300 million would enter the workforce over the next 20 years but less than 20 per cent had the knowledge, skills

The India bug bit American born Christopher Turillo rather early. He was just 21 (in 1999) when he first found himself in India as part of a 10-month college study of a few countries in Asia (he was in a small liberal arts college in the West coast). While those months were exciting, it was “India that stayed with him”, a world so different from the one he grew up in.
 
But it was not until 2005 before Turillo could make his way back. He applied for an American India Foundation fellowship and found himself working for SKS Microfinance