ITC-Welcomgroup – Empowering
People Who Are Differently Abled
ITC-Welcomgroup has established that if provided with an opportunity to work and become self sufficient, people who are differently abled can contribute at the workplace, support families and participate in the community.
ITC-Welcomgroup has taken a positive step in this direction by employing across their hotels people who are differently abled. The model it has adopted has succeeded in sensitising other employees to the needs of those differently abled. Based on their specific skills, over a 100 differently abled people have been employed in diverse functions like housekeeping, teleworking, bakery and entertainment.
Special badges for the visually impaired; whistles for the hearing-impaired employees to use in an emergency; sign language classes for the staff to communicate with them are just a few examples of how ITC-Welcomgroup has created an environment of sensitive caring.
In recognition of its substantial contribution to the cause of promoting employment opportunities for differently abled people over an extended period of time, ITC Windsor, Bengaluru, has received the NCPEDP-Shell Helen Keller Award 2007. |
455 Supplementary Learning Centres provided regular coaching to an additional 51,000 children during 2007-08. The programme has so far covered 128,000 primary school students. In addition, 70 government primary schools have been provided infrastructure support consisting of benches/chairs, compound walls/gates/roof, additional classrooms, teaching aids and sports kits. Two new initiatives launched last year have had a successful run: a rural library network that brings educational and recreational reading material to interior villages and a roaming laptop project that introduces IT-based learning in rural schools.