Riya Mathew

Upgrading skills within Mitra Jyothi employees

Need Mock Interview sessions very much needed, to place them to MNC companies.

The center imparts basic and advanced computer usability skills to visually impaired and low-vision students. This training is provided through the use of Non Visual Desktop Access or NVDA which is a free screen reading software which enables blind and vision impaired people to use computers The CTC runs 2 Basic Programs (3 months & 2 months duration) and an Advanced Program (6 months duration). These programs make people “Computer literate” and opens up the world of Computers and the Internet to people with visual disabilities. Mitra Jyothi also provides accommodation and food during the course of these programs. More than 1200 beneficiaries have so far been trained under this program since its inception. Every year 75+ Visually Impaired people are getting enabled through this program.

TCS works in collaboration with Mitra Jyothi and conducts job specific training once a year for people with visual disability. They have already trained more than 100 people and absorbed more than 50% of them into their workforce. The rest have been hired by IBM, Cisco and other MNCs and IT Companies.

Food is one of the basic necessities of life. Mitra Jyothi provides nutritious food to the Visually impaired students.

Vidhyadaanam works with rural Government School children in Kolar, Karnataka, and seeks to impart spoken English skills to students from Standards 6-8.

We are looking for a volunteer with great spoken English skills who can help us design the syllabus to cover basic spoken English for these children in 4 weeks. We plan to start preparing the syllabus from Jan 30 and have it ready by Feb 13, 2023. The intent to to launch the training program by Feb 14 and complete the program by mid-March 2023.

The aim is to deliver the program remotely through online mechanisms with feedback from the students through video recordings via social media platforms.

Those who are interested in working with us to help the students can reach us for more details as mentioned in Additional Details.