UT Austin AMBA SevaYatra in Bangalore
A group of 33 individuals including MBA students and faculty visited AMBA CEEIC for a half-day service project which included:
- Observations and Presentations by the youth at the Center as they showcased their skills
- The group was divided up into teams represented by UT students at youth at the center, they picked topics and took pictures incorporating either their environment or engaging in fun sporting activities. They collectively developed a PPT and shared it with the groups.
AMBA CEEICs are Learn and Earn programmes using the computer and a visual methodology of learning to enable adult intellectually challenged and circumstantially intellectually challenged with no capacity to go through formal education, to use the computer effectively. They bypass formal mainstream learning, slowly increasing the degree of difficulty and in about six months these adults can collectively outflow low skill back office work to include visual data entry, mail-merging, scanning and dispatch. Fractions of ability to meet the entire requirement…
This process has enabled 23 AMBA CEEICs in 18 cities and villages in India, in partnership with Tata Teleservices Pvt. Ltd, Tata Teleservices Maharashtra Pvt. Ltd., Special Olympics In India, Dinshaw Ice Cream, the Electronics Division Of Karnataka, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan and Intel and brought in work to 8 centers to date enabling work to over 235 adults in these centers. After working in house for a period, 47 adults are now working directly in the mainstream pan India. By the end of 2010 AMBA would have ensured sustainable livelihood to 450 youngsters pan India. 40% of whom are young women.
In the last year the AMBA CEEIC concept has been used to economically empower and sustain drug addicts on the streets of Mumbai and more recently the long uphill journey in trying to empower 4600 widows with AIDs in Miraj covering the districts of Sangli, Sindudurga and Rathngiri. Like God send Dinshaw Ice Cream has shown interest in giving the first twenty women work and the hope of enabling work to another hundred women should we train them on the computer. Tata Business Support Services limited has started the process of setting up a BPO with 250 widows with Aids bringing in every requirement of work and infrastructure.
