Lighthouse Communities Foundation

Lighthouse Communities Foundation is on a mission to build empowered communities through life-skills, employment and entrepreneurship opportunities for a million disadvantaged youth across India. The organisation has been working since 2015 for large-scale city-wide transformation through a unique Public Private Partnership where Government provides capex and infrastructure, and private sector contributes towards opex as well as implementation of the program. 114,500+ citizens have been impacted till date. Pune city was recognised as one of the 5 cities globally through the Wellbeing Award for the ‘Lighthouse’ project under the ‘Economy and Opportunity’ category. The program has also been recognised as the best social sector initiative across Smart Cities. Pune City Connect, the Pune division, has been selected by Aspen Institute, Washington DC as the Indian urban partner along with Bogota, Mombasa, Sao Paolo and eThekwini as an exemplar for preparing underserved youth for the future.