HP Learning Initiative for Entrepreneurs (HP LIFE) is a global training program that helps entrepreneurs and small business owners develop essential IT and business skills. Equipped with these skills and driven by their ambition young people worldwide can create opportunities to transform their lives and the lives of others in their communities. HP LIFE builds on the successful GET-IT, HELP and MAP education and training programs, offered in over 45 countries across the globe.

FOOD has partnered with HP, MEA-I (Micro-Enterprise Acceleration Institute) and EDC (Education Development Center) to establish a state of the art ICT training centre in Chennai. FOOD is utilizing the center to deliver training through the HP LIFE program to educated unemployed youth.

Further FOOD's project coordinator, Santosh Narayanan, has been certified as Master Trainer by HP and he has co-delivered a Training of Trainers (TOT) course for the HP LIFE program in Bangalore in September 2010 which was attended by 17 participants drawn from the HP LIFE training centers in India. His delivery of the TOT has been appreciated by all involved and the TOT was rated 4.8 out of 5 by the participants.

Visit the HP LIFE website

View the Training of Trainers photo gallery (September 2010)

View photos from the evaluation visit by HP

View video of an interview with FOOD's project coordinator at HP's Master Training of Trainers in Bangkok (2009)