Bangalore, Karnataka, India:
AIF’s flagship training program – Digital Equalizer in partnership with EY launched the ‘EY Skillbridge Program’, as part of their Corporate Responsibility program to allow 2,50,000 adolescent ladies throughout 500+ colleges within the nation to develop into creators of expertise reasonably than mere shoppers.
Since 2004, Digital Equalizer has been bridging India’s digital divide by offering and integrating expertise into underperforming, under-resourced public colleges. With an goal to empower adolescent ladies with Twenty first-century expertise equivalent to problem-solving, computational pondering, and innovation, Digital Equalizer is launching the ‘EY Skillbridge Program’ in collaboration with EY Global Delivery Services (EY GDS). As part of their company duty program, over the following three years, the mission will empower 250,000 ladies and over 1000 lecturers in 500+ colleges, throughout Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Maharashtra, and Delhi NCR.
In alignment with National Education Policy 2020, the mission goals to construct scientific temperament in college students, particularly ladies, by means of coding, life expertise, profession expertise, and monetary literacy. Breaking the gender stereotype and instituting fairness, the mission will construct the self-confidence and resilience of younger ladies whereas supporting them with a pathway to careers.
“Our world is witnessing an era of intense transformation in all areas, whether it is education, global trade and, economy, technology or society. There is an emergent need to focus on holistic development that equips young people, especially girls, to not only make meaningful contributions to society but also prepare them for the vagaries that confront them in the future. We are happy to announce the collaboration with EY GDS Corporate Responsibility program, to prepare young women to be ready for tomorrow,” mentioned Sanyukta Chaturvedi, Director, Digital Equalizer, AIF, & CEO, Digital Equalizer Foundation.
EY Skillbridge Program will indoctrinate a scientific temperament and cognitive pondering in ladies from grades 8 and 9 and additional their growth by instilling the requisite expertise at an early age.
Mukul Pachisia, EY GDS Global Operations Leader, mentioned, “Knowledge is not limited to a particular gender. To reap the full potential of technology and innovation, it is important that we encourage girls to excel in financial literacy and STEM skill sets. This will empower them to build a better tomorrow for themselves, their families, and the wider community. We are pleased to partner with the American Indian Foundation and launch the EY Skillbridge program that will focus on enabling young women to realize a strong future. We are happy that through this program, we can touch thousands of lives and accelerate the agenda of making STEM a gender-neutral skill in the future.”
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Working with state governments and training departments, the mission may also construct the capability of the important thing gamers within the current training ecosystem to make sure the sustainability of the initiative.
Speaking on the launch Dr Shalini Rajneesh, IAS, Additional Chief Secretary, Department of Planning, Govt. of Karnataka, mentioned, “American India Foundation is strengthening the youth of Karnataka with its packages in Livelihood and Education. We want to put together our kids and youth for the longer term and we’re assured that AIF’s Digital Equalizer program in partnership with EY GDS will equip our adolescents with 21st-century expertise and put together them for tomorrow.”
The launch occasion was additionally attended by Mrs. Sumangala, Director, Department of State Education and Research Training, Karnataka; Dr. Bahuguna Saradhi, OSD to the Commissioner, Board of Intermediate Education, Telangana for Academic Inputs; Mr. Mukund Raj, Project Head UNDP Karnataka; Rumi Mallick Mitra, Director – CSR, EYGDS, and Sheeja Menon, Head – Academics, Digital Equalizer, AIF.
The American India Foundation (AIF) is devoted to catalyzing social and financial change in India and constructing a long-lasting bridge between the United States and India. AIF is dedicated to bettering the lives of India’s underprivileged, with a particular give attention to girls, kids, and youth. AIF does this by means of high-impact interventions in training, well being, and livelihoods, as a result of poverty is multidimensional. AIF’s distinctive worth proposition is its broad engagement between communities, civil society, and experience thereby constructing a long-lasting bridge between the United States and India. Working carefully with native communities, AIF companions with non-government organizations (NGOs) to develop and check revolutionary options and with governments to create and scale sustainable impression. Founded in 2001, AIF has to this point impacted the lives of 12.9 million of India’s poor throughout 35 states and union territories. Learn extra at www.AIF.org.
About Digital Equalizer
Digital Equalizer (DE) envisions a world the place all kids from under-served communities, particularly ladies, are ready for a profession and life. The program is bridging India’s digital divide by offering and integrating expertise into underperforming, under-resourced public colleges, coaching lecturers in techno-pedagogy and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and, Mathematics) methodology, and reworking lecture rooms into collaborative and interactive locations for college students to be taught whereas making ready them for achievement within the 21st-century international economy. Since its inception in 2004, the Program has empowered 5.4 million kids with interactive STEM experiences, educated 182,025 lecturers in STEM pedagogy and, reworked 24,471 colleges throughout 35 states and union territories of the nation.
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EY Global Delivery Services (GDS) is without doubt one of the best international belongings of EY. It is an ever-growing, built-in service supply middle community that gives revolutionary, scalable and customised business providers to EY member corporations. This community is an important factor of EY main–class service capabilities that deliver collectively an industrialized mixture of high-quality expert professionals, automation, and cutting-edge applied sciences. Present in ten international locations (Argentina, China, Hungary, India, Mexico, Poland, the Philippines, Spain and the United Kingdom) and 21 cities, EY GDS works with EY member corporations throughout the globe to construct a greater working world by serving to EY and its shoppers be agile nimble, and environment friendly.
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