Education and Skill Training

From working at coffee shops to applying paint, how ICICI Foundation is making vocational development the cornerstone of its wp activities

A few years ago, a teacher told me an interesting story about an 8th class student. She narrated how this student thought that humans lived inside the earth and if a rocket were to be launched, the earth would part and the rocket would leave for the sky. The same teacher then went on...

UWC International Patron, Shelby M.C. Davis and Anand Mahindra, Governor of UWC Mahindra College and Chairman of India’s Mahindra Group, has announced that together they will provide major new support for the UWC movement. Jointly, they are committing a total of US$12.5 million scholarship funding over the next five years. Shelby Davis and Anand Mahindra...

‘Comedy ki Paathshaala’ to honor teachers working with underprivileged students : In an event organized at the Deutsche Bank office in Goregaon, Mumbai it celebrated Teacher’s Day by saluting the remarkable spirit of teachers who work within disadvantaged communities – those who infuse their class rooms with positivity and good humor. The Bank organized ‘Comedy ki...

THE just-launched Proud Fathers For Daughters campaign is an initiative in support of Project Nanhi Kali which provides educational support, both academic and material, to underprivileged girls. Project Nanhi Kali was initiated by Anand Mahindra (Chairman & Managing Director of Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.) in 1996 through the K. C. Mahindra Education Trust (KCMET) with the aim...

BIPF, the social arm of metals major IMFA, today laid the first brick of what will be instituted as Industrial Training Centre (ITC) for skill and development in the Sukinda Valley, home to the bulk of country’s chrome ore reserve, in the Jajpur district of Odisha. The main objective of ITC is to empower...

THE new building of Veda Vidyalaya, constructed with support from Jindal Steel & Power Ltd (JSPL), has been inaugurated at Siddhamath, Keonjhar on Friday July 4, 2014. Mr. T. S. Shanbhogue, EVP & Unit Head of JSPL Barbil and Mr. Pratap Chandra Hota, Sub – Collector, Kendujhar Sadar inaugurated the building in a spiritual...

TATA-DHAN Academy, the Development Management school, has sought individual and institutional sponsors for the current batch of their students. Any sponsorships provides an able candidate to study the relevant professional course for his upliftment and in turn, that of several others. The Academy has taken a commitment from the sponsored students to work for...

AS its fundraising and development efforts gain traction, IIMA, today, made its first tranche of announcements relating to support that has been committed by and agreed to with leaders in corporate and Government institutions. Put together, these collaborations, where the agreements have already been signed and the contributions have started coming in, will pool...

Centre for Civil Society is petitioning India’s Human Resource Development Minister, Smt Smriti Zubin Irani to ‘Assess all schools and accord recognition on basis of learning outcomes and not input/infrastructure norms’ Today in India, 3,494,520 children are out of school, due to the fact that 19,414 private schools across 17 states have been closed or issued notice for closure for not fulfilling...

When Guddi Bai, is cutting the fabric to stitch it and create a garment, she is actually shaping her dream to create a better future.  An underprivileged woman from Palki village near Nagda in Ujjain district of Madhya Pradesh, feel self-confident when she earns Rs 500 per month to contribute her share to support...

Mumbai: ICICI Academy for Skills (ICICI Academy), an institute set up by the ICICI Foundation for Inclusive Growth (ICICI Foundation) to create sustainable livelihood for the youth, announces the signing of agreements with Spencers Retail Ltd, Bluechip Corporate Investment Centre Ltd and AkzoNobel India Ltd. While Spencers Retail and Bluechip Corporate Investment Centre will...