Nasscom empowers women with animation skills

By siliconindia   |   Monday, 26 January 2009, 22:25 IST   |    3 Comments
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Bangalore: With animation training mushrooming in every nook and corner of the country, Nasscom Foundation (NF), the social development arm of Nasscom has introduced an only-for-women animation skills training. The training has been introduced at NF's Hyderabad and Sangli center, whereby along with tools training the trainees will also be engaged in developing their soft skills. At the Sangli center, the women are all Government Diploma holders in Fine Arts while the Hyderabad center have picked up girls who were engaged in Zardosi work or Mehendi designing, generally women with artistic inclination. The program, which comes with a job guarantee, has a significantly lesser course fee and the girls can pay it once they are employed. In Hyderabad, NF has tied up with an animation studio that will employ these trained girls and in Sangli they will get to work on a Maharashtra government project. Headquartered in New Delhi, NF has conducted a pilot project of the program Hyderabad, wherein 100 girls were trained and most of them are employed with an earning between 3,500 and 5000. For the continuance of its varied programs NF has partnered with many companies like Microsoft, Cognizant, Intel and Azim Premji Foundation.