New Delhi, January 27, 2023: Leading NGO Literacy India in collaboration with Dell Technologies has trained close to 9000 youth across 5 states in various technology related foundation courses.
Literacy India is a non-profit organization that is working towards imparting education and skills to rural and semi-rural women, youth, and children across 17 states and has served over 8,00,000 people through its different projects in the past 25 years.
For this particular project, the NGO partnered with Dell Technologies to bring qualitative change by Education & Skilling in an age of rapid technological change. Under the programme, the skills training courses for students included python coding, digital marketing, web designing, artificial intelligence, machine learning & developing computational skills.
A per Literacy India, the learners were provided educational and financial support and were enabled to become the first-generation technical learners, with 56% of the beneficiaries being women.
Speaking on the success of the training programme, Vikhyat Singh, Senior Director, Dell Technologies said, “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 21st century and therefore we’ve been working with Literacy India since 2007 to increase access to such pertinent knowledge for the underprivileged. 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 said “Future Skills Project has been a game changer for its thousands of beneficiaries, especially for girls who constituted more than 50% of the learners. 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. ”
Mahadev Ramani, a resident of Bokaro, Jharkhand and a beneficiary of the Literacy India and Dell Technologies project, was able to start his own computer centre and earn a livelihood through his acquired skills. Mahadev now operates a local computer centre in his village which has also eased access of technology and online services for others in his village.
Pallavi Verma, a resident of Gurgaon, Haryana and another beneficiary of the Future Skills Project, was able to set-up her own skills academy with the support of Literacy India’s team. Pallavi’s centre is a local success which allows her to earn a sustainable income while promoting digital skills and providing computer-access to children from low-income households.
By setting-up Dell Technology Labs in schools and community centres, Literacy India built spaces that allowed students to explore, experiment and create learning opportunities. In addition to classroom teaching, several exposure visits to organizations such as Dell, Nokia, CIDC, WitZeal were organised for students. With the support of over 50 Industry experts, the programme completed 2,75,788 learning hours.
As many as 52 students from this initiative are presently employed with leading organizations such as British Telecom, Cadence Electrical & Engineers, VNC Accessories among others. Students also developed functional mobile applications such as Toko, which are available on mobile play store.
