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.jpg) During the summer of 2010 I had the opportunity to intern with Drishtee on their Business Development Team. Drishtee’s unique Internship Program pairs each intern with a Senior-Level mentor who offers a great deal of guidance throughout this great learning experience. Drishtee’s innovative kiosk based model that operates as a last-mile supply chain for rural India’s marginalized communities creates a network of microentrepreneurs, who bring both products and services to their respective local villages. While my internship mainly focused on creating a strategy for Resource Mobilization and Networking, I was able to travel along Drishtee’s supply chain route and meet many of their ‘kiosk microentrepreneurs.’ Thus, my internship experience not only provided me with training in terms of Business Development skills, but it also gave me deep insight into how a social enterprise operates in the Base of the Pyramid (BOP) market. The Drishtee Team was incredibly helpful in guiding my internship experience and answering any questions I had. I strongly recommend Drishtee’s Internship Program to anyone interested in learning more about the Social Enterprise Space, rural, marginalized communities, and the Base of the Pyramid Market. The Internship Program offers interns a great deal of autonomy while simultaneously providing a tremendous amount of guidance. I urge anyone interested in Drishtee’s initiatives to become involved with this program.- Jeremy L. Bamberg ’11 Hobart College 2063 Scandling Center Geneva, NY 14456 |
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 I had the pleasure of interning at Drishtee as an MBA student from the Kellogg School of Management, Chicago, USA, for three months during the summer of 2011. Anytime during my internship at Drishtee I had the impression that I was working on topics that really mattered to Drishtee and where I could have a significant impact. My supervisor left me considerable freedom in how to approach the topics, while always being available as a resource. Furthermore, I found Drishtee’s senior management team always being open to discuss ideas and change suggestions. In total, I felt that my work was meaningful and appreciated. This and the very friendly & relaxed work atmosphere at Drishtee made this internship an outstanding experience. Thanks Drishtee for these awesome three months!- Tobias Hürlimann MBA Candidate , Class of 2012 , Kellogg School of Management , Northwestern University, United States |
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 I had the great pleasure of interning at DRISHTEE as MSW student from the MOTILAL NEHRU NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, ALLAHABAD, for one and half months during the summer of 2011. During my internship at DRISHTEE I really got significant knowledge of field work and got great experience, the topics which was given to me that was really valuable for DRISHTEE and me also. My supervisor guide me to doing my job perfectly. My mentor regularly guide me and always being open to discuss ideas and change suggestions time to time. I felt that my work was meaningful . The project of my topics really helped to the people of that area where I worked . The friendly and relaxed environment of DRISHTEE helped me the job perfectly. Thanks to DRISHTEE for giving me to opportunity and to do wonderful job.
- Sanjeet Kumar Marandi
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I am glad to have been associated with Drishtee this summer as a Software Intern. The enthusiasm and hard work of all the people tends to bring out something new everytime in the projects which are highly motivated to serve the rural India. I worked on Mobile-POS and learnt to deal with upcoming technologies used in the project, at the same time having a sense of fulfillment for serving unconditionally. I will strongly recommend Drishtee to all the aspiring interns out there. Go.. Explore the unexplored..jpg)
One the things that I really enjoyed about my internship at Drishtee was the fact that my opinions were given importance, despite the fact that I’m just a college student. I was given room to work independently on my project, and was given guidance when needed. The work atmosphere is really friendly and easy , and every single one of my colleagues harbored a passion for their work, which I truly admire. It was a refreshing change to be able to work on an extremely interesting, entrepreneurial/business based project that could potentially change the lives of several rural BPL women.
I am student of Master of Social Work (MSW). So as a part of our curriculum, I got a lifetime opportunity this summer i.e. May-June 2011 to complete my Summer Internship in Sultanpur Unit of Drishtee Foundation. I have been engaged for collection of primary data regarding the willingness of schools as well as the youths in the rural areas for the Vocational Training programs so that Drishtee could introduce such programs at the village level to solve the problem of unemployment and improve the socio-economic status of the rural peoples. I was very glad that I got the opportunity to work with Drishtee team and learn the basics of field work while collection of the data. It strengthened my confidence level and also came to know about the poor standard of living of the village people. If this Vocational Training project of Drishtee is introduced effectively, it would serve as a ray of hope for our rural India.
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“My experience at the villages associated with Drishtee was something very different and extremely interesting. As a photographer one is always on a look out for different ways of how people live and survive in different conditions and places. My first village being Thawar, was a wonderful experience starting from meeting people, to living there.. with them.. like them and capturing their day to day lives. In the process one realized how simple life can be and how challenging it can be in terms of image making. It truly was an experience of a kind.