HYDERABAD: Yashoda Charitable Foundation (YCF) through their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative helped train over 2,000 orphaned youth to get jobs. YCF, the CSR arm of Yashoda Group of Hospitals, also performed marriages of three orphan girls on Sunday.
YCF formed four years ago has helped 2,051 orphaned youth by providing professional and social skills. The group runs four programmes aimed at helping orphan children.
“At one of the Yashoda hospital board meeting, the directors decided to start an orphanage home. The board directors visited several orphanage homes and found a common problem at many orphanages. After the 10th standard the orphanages left the boys and girls on the road without any job or support,” said G Ravinder Rao, chairman of Yashoda hospitals group.
The 2,051 youngsters who have been trained are a part of the the programme ‘Abhaya’ run by the YCF.
Over 50 orphans aged between 14 to 21 years are trained under the programme every month. The three months course aims to make them proficient at using computers apart from other forms of training.
Till now YCF has been able to place 2,051 candidates in different organisations. “We do not consider to have completed our responsibility towards our students just by providing them with training and placement.
These young men and women will have our guidance till they settle down in life. We hold them for more than two years. We solve all problems at the workplace. When some of these youngsters require a change in job for any reason, we provide them reemployment opportunities too,” said Ravinder Rao.
All candidates who have completed the foundations course were provided placements. Apart from Yashoda Hospitals, they are now working with more than 35 corporate companies, he added.