Helper4U
Industry: Skill Development & Employability
Headquarters: Mumbai, Maharashtra
Website: www.helper4u.in
Cohort: 2017
Helper4U is an online service that connects employers with semi-skilled and unskilled workers searching for jobs in roles such as housekeeping staff, childcare workers, drivers and other positions in the informal jobs sector.
They have used a simple phone platform to empower the job seeker at the Bottom of the Pyramid. In the process, they have minimised the jobseekers’ exploitation by middlemen and helped employers save the time and money spent on hiring.
They have been recognised at various forums as an innovative social as well as tech enterprise. They received an award from Internet.org in India in 2015, for helping migrants using technology, and were recently recognised as one of the top 100 social enterprises by Action For India.
Helper4U has facilitated 5,000 job placements so far. They plan to expand to more cities, with the goal of further penetrating the BoP and providing them with gainful employment opportunities.
FOUNDER & CEO
In 2014, Founder and CEO Meenakshi Gupta Jain started Helper4U after hearing stories of maids and domestic helpers that were exploited by job agents and abused by employers. As an entrepreneur, her goal is to use technology to impact the lives of those at the “Bottom of the Pyramid”. She received her Bachelor’s degree in English from JMC Delhi University and her Master’s degree in Child Speech Development from Jawaharlal Nehru Vishvavidyalaya. She has 10+ years of experience as an instructional designer.