NASSCOM Foundation has been working together with top of the line organizations in the industry for various CSR initiatives. This section regularly features such success stories. Keep checking this section to read about these initiatives.

Accenture NASSCOM Foundation Partnership

Accenture and NASSCOM Foundation believe there is an urgent need to develop skills and capabilities across India’s marginalized sections of society as a pre-requisite for productive employment. Lack of employment is an issue of national priority which demands the concerted and collaborative efforts of private sector organizations such as Accenture, non-governmental organizations such as the NASSCOM Foundation and relevant government agencies. We are therefore working together to find solutions to address the urgent need for “capability building for India’s future.”

The aim of the Accenture-NASSCOM Foundation partnership is to increase livelihood options for women and adolescent girls from marginalized communities in rural areas and urban slums either through employment or self employment in the animation industry. As a part of the project, Accenture and NASSCOM Foundation will undertake the role of consolidating, developing and validating a robust market-driven, competency-based curriculum for animation skills, publishing and online web design industry. A centre in Hyderabad will be set up to train 40 adolescent girls with good drawing skills and who undertake Mehendi designing as a source of livelihood in animation skills building over 12 months. It can be envisaged that such an initiative will help these young women to supplement their family income which in turn will enhance their status and autonomy within the family. More importantly, being economically productive will relieve these girls and their families of the pressures of early marriage.