Empowering Marginalized Youth Through Impact Tourism

Impact India

English - July 30, 2019 11:00 - 36 minutes - 33.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
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In Episode 2 of the Impact India podcast, I sit down with Fahim Vora, co-founder of Be the Local tours, outside Mahim Junction railway station in Mumbai on a couple of parked scooties.

Be the Local Tours is a Mumbai-based tour company that trains and employs marginalized students from Dharavi, the infamous slum area of India. Fahim dives into his journey of becoming an entrepreneur as a marginalized man in Mumbai having been born and raised in Dharavi.

Tune in to hear:

Fahim’s story growing up in DharaviThe importance of providing opportunity to marginalized youthHow tourism can address poverty

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