Education and Skill Training

Kiran Shinde, Deputy Chef de Partie at the prestigious hotel chain JW Marriott, (grinning at you in the picture) is a success story for the books. He grew up as an orphan at an ashram in Pune. He worked several odd jobs to make ends meet. If it wasn't for his training at Mahindra...

As part of the Honeywell Safe Schools programme, Honeywell, a Fortune 100 leading technology company, and the NGO SEEDS (Sustainable Environment and Ecological Development Society) restored, repaired, and retrofitted 15 state government schools in Dehradun and Hardiwar, and handed them over to Uttarakhand CM Trivendra Singh Rawat. Honeywell Safe Schools is a school safety programme, which is...

‘UMEED 1000’ Cyclothon, the flagship CSR initiative of RBL Bank, a social endeavour to contribute and raise funds in support of girl child education concluded successfully, raising Rs. 5.12 crores. The proceeds of the initiative will be donated to Udbhav RBL School, in Fatehnagar, Hyderabad, a school adopted by the Bank in 2019 catering...

Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) India, an India-registered Society and affiliate of the global humanitarian nonprofit, ADRA, headquartered in Maryland, United States, has launched a life skills programme for kids, “The Birds and Bees Talk” (BBT) with support from the global conglomerate, Reckitt Benckiser. The curriculum was launched for children between the ages...

Beyond healthcare and education, automobile companies tend to prioritise road safety and vocational skilling in their social welfare pool. CSR of Maruti Suzuki has contributed to the sustainable development of India in the same vein. The organisation undertakes road safety consciousness and is working with State governments to make a bigger impact. Skill training is...

Shahani Academic & Global Empowerment Foundation (SAGE), a non-profit trust focused on skills training, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Rise Infinity Foundation, Secretariat of MahaPECONet, a coalition of development partners convened by UNICEF. Through this agreement, SAGE and UNICEF MahaPECONet seek to collaborate towards the skilling and upskilling of youth from migrant...

Electronics major Samsung celebrates 25th anniversary in India with the announcement of #PoweringDigitalIndia. What is #PoweringDigitalIndia? #PoweringDigitalIndia is Samsung's brand new vision for the country that will be driven by an exciting new CSR programme aimed at students across the nation, a refreshed local R&D strategy with special focus on the local startup community and new...

COVID-19 has accelerated the need for Singapore to generate new digital relationships with the world. As data, financial and trade flows increasingly become digitalised, there is a corresponding need for secure and trustworthy ways to transact. The Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS), has worked with Enterprise Singapore (ESG) to launch the Blockchain for...

As part of Mahindra Group’s yearlong 75th anniversary celebrations, in the spirit of Rise that resonates across the group, Mahindra today launched its #SkillHaiTohFutureHai digital campaign focussed on youth skilling. India is strongly positioned in the world owing to its demographic dividend in the form of two-thirds of its population being in the working-age group...

With an aim to uplift the tribal community and instill the idea of entrepreneurship, the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) in association with the Ministry of Tribal Affairs has started their ‘Tribal Entrepreneurship Development Programme (TEDP), with a target to identify at least 350 tribal artists and help them expand...

Samsung will offer 150 fresh scholarships to Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya students starting a full-term course in an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) or a National Institute of Technology (NIT) for academic year 2020-21, under the 5th edition of its Star Scholar programme. Each year Samsung offers scholarships to outstanding students from JNVs who pursue full...

Amway India launched Saksham, a new app for the visually impaired individuals in association with its NGO partner Saksham on the occasion of International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Saksham app will work as a one-stop solution for the visually impaired individuals as it provides them with all relevant information using talk back and voiceover...