1) About Reap Benefit Reap Benefit is on a mission to create ‘Solve Ninjas’. These are young citizens who are solving real neighbourhood issues of waste-water-sanitation, potholes etc through: ● Local Data ● Local Solutions ● Local Mentors/Government
We have worked with 17,600 students, diverted 440 tonnes of solid waste, saved 32 million litres of water, improved sanitation systems in more than 200 low-income & government schools and built more than 100 low cost solutions (both IOT and non tech solutions). Click here to know more. Reap Benefit, 2017
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2) Role: Full Time Ninja Mentor Location: Compensation: Previous Experience:
Bangalore Based on experience 0-5 years
*The selection process will take 3 weeks after the submission of the form
3) Skill up to Solve Details of the Program: Students build a problem solving culture at school. Solve issues of waste-water-sanitation in the school and inspire the larger school to take initiatives.Students are taken through the process of Discover, Investigate, Solve & Share Students are trained in basic of data orientation & hands on problem solving 1. Facilitation skills: Candidate should be able to engage with students from diverse backgrounds to become ‘Solve Ninjas’ at their school, home & community 2. Hands on skills: Candidate should be able to demonstrate a basic degree of hands on skills to solve real life problems with students 3. Citizenship: Candidate should be an active citizenship demonstrated through actions. 4. Interpersonal & Communication Skills: Candidate should be able to engage with students above 12 years 5. Problem Solving: Ability to find hacks/techniques/materials to constantly prototype solutions & develop robust DIY solutions
4) Why Reap Benefit? 1. Democratise Problem Solving : Audacious movement where every young person is not the ‘future’ but is the present ‘here & now’. 2. Innovation: Constantly innovating, be it developing India’s first technology platform to build a community of youth citizen problem solvers OR an action based skill rubric to measure the skills activated in youth through real life problem solving OR develop o rganic enzyme which converts food waste into Reap Benefit, 2017
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compost, low cost waterless urinals, sensor based solutions to monitor air pollution. We are impacting local governance, citizenship and we develop ‘skills of the future’. Ability to learn from our mistakes. Focussed impact and ‘no individual is bigger than the impact’. We have a coconut tree and an amazing garden in our office!
5) Our learnings Join us on our journey and work with us in figuring out ways to create impact with all the inherent contradictions of the world.
1. Living our values: The constant struggle of having a ‘militant’ based approach vs a ‘nudge’ based approach when it comes to neighbourhood issues of garbage,water & sanitation. 2. Fear of unpopular decisions : ‘’You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time’’. ● Process Vs Output. ● Long Term Vs Short Term ● Fun Vs Seriousness ● Idealism Vs Realism We have learnt and are learning to coexist with the contradictions of this space and pursue our mission. 3. Need to be more assertive: Sometime our lack of assertion has been taken for granted by some internal & external stakeholders.
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