Impact Stories: CrowdFlower Contributors at iMerit, Kolkata

This post is to highlight some of the stories of the incredible women that I get to work with everyday at iMerit, specifically at the Metiabruz site outside Kolkata, West Bengal. iMerit was “founded to help underprivileged youth escape the poverty trap by providing livlihoods through the creation of digital jobs.” This video, created by CrowdFlower, one of iMerit’s project partners, dives a little deeper into what it means for some of these women to have the opportunity to work at iMerit, and how it has transformed their lives.

“iMerit partners with its sister non-profit, Anudip Foundation, which “mobilizes marginalized but motivated youth and women from rural and semi-urban communities and immerses them in its Market Aligned Skills Training (MAST) program. After they successfully complete Anudip’s program, iMerit employs many of these youth and women with IT work, including Cloud and Mobile support, Digital Publishing, and tasks with CrowdFlower.”

Though there are many great quotes in this video, one of my favorites is by Rehana Khatoon: “In our locality (Metiabruz), many people think that girls cannot do anything. iMerit…proved them wrong.”

Please enjoy the following video (link available here), courtesy of CrowdFlower.

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John Simpson

John's interest in international education began six years ago when he took his first teaching job in Piedmont, Italy. Since then, teaching internationally has taken him to five different continents, allowing him to pick up small amounts of various languages along the way. Having most recently completed an English Language Fellowship with the US State Department in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, John is excited to begin his journey as an educator and trainer with AIF in Kolkata. In 2013/2014, John taught English composition and critical thinking skills to young women from all over Asia at the Asian University for Women (AUW) in Chittagong, Bangladesh. This increased his interest in working in South Asia and learning Bengali. When not found teaching in the classroom, John can be found reading, playing cello, swimming, writing, eating potentially dangerous street food, and hiking.

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