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| About the talk |
| Solomon left his career as an engineer and has been working extensively in the field of education and livelihood development for the past 20 years. He uses three real life examples and talks about the fact that transcendence is for everyone. He also mentions that our life is an opportunity to change the world and hence the need to make a contribution. |
| About Solomon JP |
CEO, MAYA,
Transcend the Ordinary |
| Solomon studied and lives in Bangalore and started his career in a mechanical engineering firm, and later with an electro-chemical firm until 1987 and then went to Germany, which gave him the opportunity to study and work with alternate living communities. He travelled extensively in western and Eastern Europe, Latin America and Asia. This gave him a wide exposure for different kinds of work ranging from food processing to small engineering firms. In 1989, he along with others initiated a non-profit MAYA, which now has over 250 staff and works mostly in the States of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, with a primary focus on addressing the right to education and livelihood. He has worked extensively on issues of street children in urban areas, child labour in rural and urban areas, state-wide reform in elementary education in Karnataka, and more lately on issues of livelihood for the informal sector in India. He spun off two for-profit companies from the development programme Maya Organic and LabourNet, both meant to create and enhance Job opportunities for the informal sector |
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