Community
Technical Centre: One Year Journey
Gurgaon, India,
July 4, 2009
It’s been a wonderful and impressive year long journey for
the Community Training Centre (CTC) program undertaken by
arvato India in collaboration with one of its Technology
Major Clients to help underprivileged youth to gain technologies and basic computing. In today’s technology
driven society there is a need to be a little more qualified
than the ‘can read and write’ tag. It is essential for an
individual to be digitally literate as well, as it
considerably impacts an individual’s potential.With the
vision of empowering the youth, arvato India has dedicated
resources for this noble cause and we have managed to train
close to a 100 students in a year’s time. Our aim was not
just to make sure the students attain the 80% benchmark in
order to be certified, but also to strengthen the quality of
the course by incorporating internal tests and class
activities. This in turn warrants not just a great pass
percentage but also students scoring higher marks. arvato
India is one of the main CTCs to have had an exceedingly good
pass percentage with outstanding scores and brilliant
students.
One year into the program, we have successfully managed to
certify 92 Students with the Digital Literacy (DL)
Certificate. Out of these 92 DL certified students:
‣ 73 students scored above 90% which
is 80% of the students who have qualified
‣ 31 students scored above 95%, which is one-third
to the qualifying students
‣ 12 students have attained a
perfect score. That is 13% of the qualifying students have
got a 100%
We followed up with a couple of our students and have found
some human interest stories to concoct to the success of the CTC program. There were two sisters who after being DL
certified have found jobs as Computer Trainers in a Computer
Education Institute, consequently making them financially
independent. We also discovered a young man who while
pursuing his MBA has found himself a part time job as an
Office Assistant with a Multi National Company. This job
earns him the money to support his education by himself
without depending on his family. We are proud that, arvato
India, in its endeavour to contribute to the society has
managed to touch the lives of a few and make a difference. |