Accenture has announced that Accenture Foundations have awarded Quest Alliance India an additional grant of US$623,000 to provide career and workplace skills to approximately 3,000 disadvantaged young people.
The award reflects Accenture’s global corporate citizenship initiative, Skills to Succeed, which will prepare 250,000 people around the world by 2015 with the skills to get a job or build a business. The grant will allow Quest Alliance India to work with nonprofit vocational training partners to develop and implement a blended learning curriculum in English and workplace readiness with customer interaction skills.
Jill Huntley, Managing Director of Corporate Citizenship Accenture commented, “Supporting Quest Alliance India helps exemplify Accenture’s commitment to building skills and improving the communities in which we live and work. Quest is proving it’s possible to develop replicable and scalable programs that teach crucial job skills and help disadvantaged young people.”
Aakash Sethi, Founder and Executive Director ,Quest Alliance said, “India’s workforce is quite young and in need of formal training so we are constantly seeking ways to provide disadvantaged young people with the skills necessary to find long-term employment and to provide for themselves and their families. Working with Accenture and leveraging their technology and skills has allowed us to enhance the capacity and quality of our training significantly.”
