
Bengaluru organisation guides students on the path from dreaming to doing
The Hindu
Voice the Void is a project conceived by Spurti Aluru, a student at TISB Bangalore, with the idea of empowering visually impaired individuals by building prototypes of audiobooks for blind students.
Voice the Void is a project conceived by Spurti Aluru, a student at TISB Bangalore, with the idea of empowering visually impaired individuals by building prototypes of audiobooks for blind students.
Aaliyah Merchant, a student at Headstart Educational Academy, came up with the idea of ‘Gray Matter’, an initiative to address the lack of knowledge on stroke prevention among individuals in India.
Eesha Kadwadkar, a student at Oberoi International School, Mumbai, came up with the idea of RescYou, a chatbot platform that helps children access information and assistance from mental health professionals.
The youngsters came up with these impressive projects with the help of Purpose Academy, a Bengaluru-based organisation that aims to shape students into the problem solvers of tomorrow.
The confused youth
Founded by Manav Subodh, a former global ambassador at UC Berkeley and curator of the Activate Impact Youth Summit at the UN, Purpose Academy works with students to identify their passion and design their higher studies and careers around the same.
“I have been working with youngsters in the entrepreneurship and skilling space for a while now,” says Subodh.













