Eight Bits Institute For Technical & Skill Development Education Foundation

Down at A/101 of the Buddha Bhushan Co-op Housing Society is where you will find us. This is over in the Subhash Tekadi area. It is a residential neighborhood, so it feels very much like a home. We set up this foundation to help folks learn technical skills that can help them get jobs. We have some computers set up in the main room, and the wires are always a bit of a tangle, no matter how many times we try to organize them. It isn’t a high-tech lab you see in the movies, just a practical space where people can get their hands on a keyboard and learn. The society is a friendly place, and sometimes the neighbors' kids peek in to see what we are doing. We don’t have a big marketing budget or anything like that. We just rely on the fact that people need to learn these things. Sometimes the power goes out and we all have to take a break and sit on the balcony until it comes back on. Those are the times we get to know the students better. We talk about their lives and what they want to do after they finish their training here. It’s a small operation, and we like it that way because we can actually talk to everyone who comes in. It’s honest work and we enjoy seeing people get better at their skills. We hope that the time spent here helps them find something good later on.