Yashoda launches training programme

The Yashoda Charitable Foundation (YCF), a corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiative of city-based Yashoda Group of Hospitals, on Sunday launched the first batch of its employment-linked training programme.

The programme is specially designed to create opportunities for the underprivileged and orphaned youth and to make them employable by imparting them employable skills.

“The foundation will take 60 orphan youths, who have lost either a single parent or both the parents, in the first batch with strategic approach for social inclusion of the target group,” G Ravender Rao, chairman of Yashoda Group of Hospitals, said.

For the first batch, the students would be trained in customer relations, hospitality, sales and nursing aid certification courses, and later on other area like real estate and infrastructure would be covered. Around 4-6 batches would be conducted per year.

The Yashoda Charitable Foundation, established in 2011, has partnered with various training providers for 59 training courses, and has collaborated with other foundations, including GMR's Varalakshmi Foundation and Dr Reddy’s Lab.

Around 1,000 children from various orphan homes from the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad participated in the event.