SOFTWARE LIGHTS UP THE FUTURE OF
VISUALLY CHALLENGED
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| Visually-challenged girls, who completed training |
It
was a proud moment for members of the Society for Rehabilitation of the
Visually Challenged (SRVC), who, in association with the Rotary Club of Cochin
Global (RCG), completed the training of 50 visually challenged students in
various job-oriented skills, at the resource centre set up at Vismaya, at the
Infopark in Kochi. The students were put into eight batches.
To witness the
completion of the training enabled by a software titled Job Access With Speech
(JAWS), four eminent personalities had come to Infopark.They were Infopark CEO
Hrishikesh Nair, Sunrise Hospital managing director Parveen Hafiz, television
celebrity Ranjini Haridas and CGH Earth CEO Jose Dominic. They commended the
students for their achievement and also SRVC and the Rotary Club.
The skills imparted
were in sectors like call centres, customer service, back office and
tele-marketing. They were empowered in the field of computers, mobility and
communicative English.Some of the students of the previous batches have already
been employed in firms including Sunrise Hospital, Hotel Taj Vivanta and Hotel
Le Meridian.“They are capable of executing desk jobs and the
visually-challenged should be brought out of seclusion and our efforts have
been towards that”, said M.C.Roy, project director at RCG-SRVC Centre.Director
Siddique told the students that they had the rare gift of focusing on what they
were doing without getting distracted and they should make maximum use of it.Those
selected for training should have a plus-two pass and are in the age group of
20-30.The tuition, board and lodging are free. The NCVT has certified the
programme while CDIT is processing it.
Prof. John Kurakar
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