VIRTUALAHAN

Virtualahan is a social enterprise that breaks employment barriers using technology. We train people with disabilities with digital skills to work as virtual assistants and help them move out of poverty. #SDG8 #SDG4

There are currently 1 out of 7 Filipinos ages 20-49 years old, our prime working population, who tested positive to Hepatitis B who suffer from this incurable disease and considerable employment or workplace discrimination. Most of them come from families who lives below the poverty line, and that’s just Hep B. People with physical and mental disability not just battling for their condition but enduring the inequality of society daily. These people have difficulties in getting a job because of mobility issues, lack of proper skills training, and social stigma and discrimination attached to their respective conditions.

We recruit, screen, and qualify candidates to undergo our intensive six weeks’ skills and capacity building program for people who suffer from workplace discrimination, mobility issues, and general despair over a lack of access to meaningful employment opportunities.

Successful graduates are then provided with employment support through direct hiring, referrals, and job application support to perform jobs on customer service, back-office, and data management. We create structure and the opportunities for advancement and set these people to deliver maximum value. In the process, we are building a support network that nurtures the well-being of our members. 

We work with young people who has medical, physical and mental disabilities.

We developed a training design that is deployed virtually to provide an intensive capacity building with a self-learning and guided learning modules combined.

Successful graduates are then provided with employment support through direct hiring, referrals, and job application support through the help of our outsourcing partners.

We create structure, accountability, management and the opportunities for advancement and set these people to deliver maximum value. In the process, helping them increase their income and contribute to the economy.

Completion rate every six weeks training cycle - 30,000 skilled online service providers in The Philippines by 2030

Employment rate measured quarterly and annually - At least 20, 000 jobs provided to successful graduates

Increase in income measured quarterly and annually - 40-60% increase of income for our beneficiaries

The integration of different technologies to cater people with specific needs (visually impaired, hearing impaired, quadriplegics, and others) is one of our operational strength. We are a 100% virtual company  which we take advantage of internally to keep our operations lean and highly functional. We are not restricted to specific locations and can scale to new operating areas at will. Most importantly we have a competitive product that delivers far greater value than other organizations by reducing the true cost of ownership of outsourcing.

We are a people business and each step of our process involves 100% of our beneficiaries. The core of our solution is the community! We are building a support network that meets online on weekly basis to nurture confidence, teamwork, and social equality among our members. 

Our training is done online using Google Classroom, Zoom for video conferencing, and other applications that we integrate that makes it accessible for anyone in the world who has a working computer and internet connection.

1. TRAINING FEE from corporate partners who are sponsoring our students to undergo the training program

2. REFERRAL FEE from outsourcing partners who hire our graduates

3. SUBSCRIPTION from clients who avail our outsourcing services

1. Team Size- we are only able to train 10-15 students per training cycle because of the limited size of our team

2. Infrastructure- we are receiving a lot of applications and many were not accepted because they don't have their own computer and/or internet connection

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http://www.globalgoodfund.org/blog/2017/06/05/meet-2017-global-good-fund-fellow-ryan-gersava-founder-virtualahan/

1. Improve our capacity to deliver exponential impact by connecting with experts who can help us critic and scale our work

2. Gain access to modern technology that we can use in replicating our design to other target groups that we have very limited capacity to deliver

3. Build stronger networks that we can share our learning and also learn from, share our resource and gain access to theirs, and replicate our model to their respective communities.

1. Accenture via the Skills to Succeed Program

2. Robert Bosch Solutions via the ChangemakerXchange

3. Lenovo via the Outstanding Tech Visionary Award

4. Department of Information and Communications Technology

5. National Council on Disability Affairs

6. Technical Education and Skills Development Authority

7. Globe Telecome via My Future Maker

Indirect Competitors

SamaSource, BagoSphere and other Rural Impact Sourcing Initiatives