|
| ‘Technoworld Digital Technologies’, Kumarapuram, Thiruvananthapuram |
|
Download Database of featured talents. (Excel file) |
5 years ago, 10 young and computer-literate women from below the poverty line joined together to form an institute, ‘Technoworld Digital Technologies’, Kumarapuram, Thiruvananthapuram, by pooling together Rs.1500 each. Today, their 5-computer institute has grown into a 30-machine set up that is reaping success in fields like web design and IT education.
With the subsidy of Rs.1.25 lakhs of the Kudumbasree Project and the Rs.2.75 lakhs loan from Syndicate Bank, the nascent institute took to the wings. If they initially concentrated on Data Entry, Desktop Publishing, summer classes for housewives and children etc, later they took up projects in web design by employing qualified persons on contract basis.
Today the institute has the credit of developing the websites of Power Finance Corporation, State Planning Board, Public Relations Department, Agriculture Department, Socio-Economic Unit Foundation, Statistics Department etc.
They have been entrusted with the task of implementing IT @ School programme at Cotton Hill School, Thiruvananthapuram – the 1st Kudumbasree unit in Kerala to take up such a task.
The loan has been repaid at the rate of Rs.6800 a month. Today the ‘owners’ of the institute are full-time employees there. They receive salary commensurate to their work just like the other 40 employees. The balance profit is earmarked for the development of the institute. 2 of the 10 initiators take turns to become leader and secretary of the group for 2 years and lead the institute.
Our aim is to help the unemployed to the maximum extent, say the group of 10.
Training in progress at Technoworld
Courtesy: Malayala Manorama, September 1, 2003
Contributed by: Administrator
