Tahana Tasmeea and Tahreem Shah

Nacionalidad: Bangladesh
Nombre de la Organización: Bhorosha
Región de Impacto: Asia
Sobre el Negocio Social: Bhorosha (empowering women through livelihoods) is developing a transparent and automated platform to connect women employees (from informal economy) with potential employers in 2 steps, they are Step 1: Connecting them with appropriate jobs by matching their skill set Step 2: Provide skills gap training to enhance their existing skills for better job opportunities. They are developing a prototype for pilot launch at Korail Slum (largest informal settlement in Bangladesh) within the next few months. This will be done by setting up micro-agents to obtain and input information of the potential employees on their website by building up on the data.
Sobre el Y&Y Fellow: Tahana is an Environmental Science graduate, currently working at the Sustainability & Climate Change advisory at PwC. Both as a student and a consultant, her research projects have given her the opportunity to travel to the most remote places all over Bangladesh, where she came across stories of strength, resilience, and vulnerabilities of Bengali women. Despite being highly skilled in areas such as cooking, knitting, etc., these women are victims of the vicious cycle of poverty. This has led her to build a platform to connect informal sector workers with potential jobs for a better standard of living.

Tahana Tasmeea and Tahreem Shah

Nacionalidad: Bangladesh
Nombre de la Organización: Bhorosha
Región de Impacto: Asia
Sobre el Negocio Social: Bhorosha (empowering women through livelihoods) is developing a transparent and automated platform to connect women employees (from informal economy) with potential employers in 2 steps, they are Step 1: Connecting them with appropriate jobs by matching their skill set Step 2: Provide skills gap training to enhance their existing skills for better job opportunities. They are developing a prototype for pilot launch at Korail Slum (largest informal settlement in Bangladesh) within the next few months. This will be done by setting up micro-agents to obtain and input information of the potential employees on their website by building up on the data.
Sobre el Y&Y Fellow: Tahana is an Environmental Science graduate, currently working at the Sustainability & Climate Change advisory at PwC. Both as a student and a consultant, her research projects have given her the opportunity to travel to the most remote places all over Bangladesh, where she came across stories of strength, resilience, and vulnerabilities of Bengali women. Despite being highly skilled in areas such as cooking, knitting, etc., these women are victims of the vicious cycle of poverty. This has led her to build a platform to connect informal sector workers with potential jobs for a better standard of living.
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