Literacy India and Dell Technologies Collaboration: Empowering Youth by Technology Training

• Literacy India and Dell Technologies partnered to empower over 9000 youth with know-how coaching in 5 states, with a deal with empowering girls.
• The coaching included programs on Python coding, digital advertising, internet design, AI, and machine studying.

New Delhi: The Future Skills Initiative is in keeping with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of Quality Education, Gender Equality and Decent Work and Employment. The initiative has helped to offer high quality training and abilities coaching to underprivileged youth, with a deal with empowering girls. This not solely helps to bridge the gender hole within the know-how sector but additionally allows these people to safe respectable work and employment alternatives.

Furthermore, the initiative has helped to enhance literacy charges in India. By offering entry to know-how coaching and digital abilities, the initiative has helped to empower people to turn out to be extra literate and proficient within the digital age. This is especially necessary in a rustic like India, the place digital literacy is turning into more and more very important for socio-economic growth.

In conclusion, the Future Skills Initiative, a partnership between Literacy India and Dell Technologies, has been a game-changer for hundreds of beneficiaries, significantly girls. The initiative has supplied entry to high quality training, abilities coaching and digital literacy, enabling people to safe respectable work and employment alternatives.

The success of the initiative is in keeping with the United Nations SDGs and has had a optimistic influence on the broader ecosystem in India. The initiative serves as an inspiration for different organizations to duplicate and contribute to the socio-economic growth of the nation.

Speaking on the success of this initiative Vikhyat Singh, Senior Director, Dell Technologies stated: “We are delighted to have made an impact in areas where it was most needed with Literacy India. Digital skills are a must for our youth, children and women in the 21^st century and therefore we’ve been working with Literacy India since 2007 to increase access to such pertinent knowledge for the underprivileged. Through our work together, we’ve been able to impact over two lakh lives across 15 states in India. Through our Future Skills Campaign, we’ve been able to directly impact over 62,500 lives and help citizens with employability issues. We are delighted to see the scale of impact and are excited about the revolution this project can bring in the years to come. That means the world to us.”  

Captain Indraani Singh, Managing Trustee, Literacy India stated “Future Skills Project has been a game changer for its thousands of beneficiaries, 50% of whom were girls. It is heartening to see young learners bring their skills to life by developing tech games, programmes and bots. Several of them turned entrepreneurs while 50+ students found jobs in leading organizations which speaks to the success of this initiative. We are thankful to Dell for their commitment and support to this project, and expect to positively impact several thousand people in the years to come. ”

“The biggest solace is that every person under our programmatic embrace who is in need of education and empowerment will receive utmost support to attain their best potential and later to become a responsible citizen,” Captain Indraani Singh shared.

Mahadev Ramani, a resident of Bokaro, Jharkhand and a beneficiary of the Literacy India and Dell Technologies mission, was in a position to begin his personal pc centre and earn a livelihood by his acquired abilities.  Mahadev now operates a neighborhood pc centre in his village which has additionally eased entry of know-how and on-line providers for others in his village. 

Pallavi Verma, a resident of Gurgaon, Haryana and one other beneficiary of the Future Skills Project, was in a position to set-up her personal abilities academy with the assist of Literacy India’s staff.

Pallavi’s centre is a neighborhood success which permits her to earn a sustainable revenue whereas selling digital abilities and offering computer-access to kids from low-income households.

By setting-up Dell Technology Labs in faculties and neighborhood centres, Literacy India constructed areas that allowed college students to discover, experiment and create studying alternatives. In addition to classroom instructing, a number of publicity visits to organizations corresponding to Dell, Nokia, CIDC, WitZeal amongst others.  With the assist of over 50 Industry specialists, the programme accomplished 275788 studying hours.

52 college students from this initiative are presently employed with main organizations corresponding to British Telecom, Cadence Electrical & Engineers, VNC Accessories amongst others.  Students additionally developed practical cell purposes corresponding to Toko, which can be obtainable on cell play retailer.  

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