Alisha Karmali is a student at the University of Waterloo in Ontario.
She recently gathered a team of students to enter the Hult Prize Challenge 2015 (Bill Clinton Initiative). The Challenge is on how to provide Early Childhood Education in slums around the world by the year 2020.
Alisha as a team captain and four other UWaterloo students started a company called BabySteps Academy in response to the challenge. They won the first round and will be competing against teams from all around the world in regionals in March 2015 for the $1 million prize. Their pilot city is Dhaka, Bangladesh and they are currently applying for grants and fundraising in order to travel to Dhaka in February 2015 during their reading week for research purposes.
University of Waterloo has published about them on three different platforms. Following are the links and stories:
1. GreenHouse startup wins first round of coveted social enterprise prize
2. UW startup advances to the regional round of $1 million competition
3. Students Success Office: It takes a village
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