Raju Kendre

Founder and CEO, Eklavya India
Chevening Scholar, FCDO UK Government
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Raju Kendre is a first-generation learner who hails from the Nomadic Tribe community of the Vidarbha region (Central India). First-generation learners in India face the problem of accessing higher education opportunities. His own lived experience with this problem motivated him to start "Eklavya India", an organisation that promotes higher education and enables grassroots leadership of first-generation learners in Central India. Raju has been engaged with tribal and rural community development for the last decade as a development practitioner