Tag: Disability Inclusion
Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. joins The Valuable 500 movement for disability inclusion
Global business collective, The Valuable 500, announces it has reached its goal of 500 international organisations committing to put disability inclusion on their board...
International Day of Persons With Disabilities 2020 – Corporates Championing Disability Inclusion
The pandemic has hit persons with disabilities (PwD) especially hard. Most have lost their source of income while others are grappling with being mobile...
World Sight Day 2020: CSR of Standard Chartered Bank funding 44 vision centres for CBM India
CBM India in collaboration with Standard Chartered Bank, commits to equip 44 vision centres in Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh. With this association...
Online Learning in Sign Language
Digitization has democratized the education system and skill development in the country. It has enabled everyone to learn any skill or subject from the...
Inclusive Education & Social Inclusion Breaking Barriers For The Visually Impaired
India is home to nearly 8 million blind people, which is approximately one-fourth of the total blind population in the world. Inclusion is a...
Skill-based Abilympics gives hope to PwDs
Working on his task of Character Designing, Kishore Mohite from Pune with hearing impairment is in the hope of winning the ICT competition. Orthopaedically...
MAP will be India’s most inclusive art & photography museum
According to the World Health Organisation, in their World Report on Disability - about 15% of the world’s population live with some form of...
CSR: Recruiters cold to differently-abled, only 15% hire from this set
Hiring of differently- or specially-abled professionals by Indian recruiters has still a long way to go, if the recent survey findings by recruitment and...
Shapoorji Pallonji promotes inclusion of a diverse workforce with sports
The Shapoorji Pallonji Group integrated corporate social responsibility and employee engagement to break preconceived ideas about the capabilities of the differently abled, with the...
CSR: Two Indian tech companies are models of inclusion
For India to become an inclusive society, it is important that the nation’s corporate sector sensitises itself to the country’s diversity, its gender differences,...
PVR announces Accessible Cinema Program
PVR Cinemas has rolled out its Accessible Cinema Program for people with mobility, hearing and visual impairment. The first phase of the program will...
Candor TechSpace hosts conference with specially-abled achievers
Candor TechSpace, the leading provider of IT/ITES office spaces, hosted a special event to celebrate the International Day of Persons with Disabilities at Roseate...