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EnAble India's Automation Tool receives Overwhelming response: EnAble India's Automation Tool released in August 2012, is being piloted in 18 schools and NGO's in several states in India like Karnataka, Kerala, Jharkhand and even in Africa. The response has been overwhelming with over 1500 children and adults who are visually impaired, and some hearing impaired, being benefitted by the tool.

EnAble India releases Automation Tool: EnAble India released Automation Tool 1.0 Beta version on 6th August 2012. The tool intends to automate the process of correction of the computer exercise and make the trainee to learn the Computer Basics, MS word, Excel, and Internet concepts on their own, without trainers' intervention.

EnAble India is a CISCO certified Network Academy: Over the years, EnAble India has conducted CCNA course for Visually Impaired in partnership with Curtin University(Australia) which has resulted in better employment prospects for the Visually Impaired. As a result of this, EnAble India is now a CISCO certified Network Academy. The academy is launching the CCNA course for Visually Impaired on 4th Sept 2012.

Shanti Raghavan gave a presentation at IIM Indore: In the 1st week of September, Shanti Raghavan gave a presentation at IIM Indore. She spoke about her journey as a Social Enterpreneur to the MBA, executive MBA and PHD students. The presentation was a way of introducing disability and make people understand the innovation, creativity required in the development sector. It was well received.

EnAble India participated in an exhibition program: EnAble India participated in a one-day exhibition program which was organized by CII Bangalore chapter held in the last week of August. The purpose of the exhibition was to bring together the NGO's and Corporates for a better understanding on Corporate Social Responsibility.

Seminar on Employability of Persons with Disability in May 2012: EnAble India and Axis Bank jointly organized a seminar on Inclusion through Employability for Persons with Disability on 24th May 2012 at IIMB premises. Paricipants included people from different banking and financial sector. The seminar aimed at increasing awareness on employing Persons with Disability in banking and financial services sector.

EnAble India collaborates with Fidelity Systems: EnAble India has collaborated with Fidelity Systems to assist with making their workplace suitable for Persons with Disability. The activities span across conducting infrastructure and web audits; job analysis and disability awareness workshops. EnAble India will recommend or suggest changes to existing processes if required and finally assist with sourcing suitable PWD that can be employed with them.

Scholarship programme for Persons with Disability: Leading MNC partners with EnAble India and Christ college to offer 3 years sponsored B Com course for Persons with Disabilities. For the batch 2012 to 2015, 3 students are selected for this scholarship programme. We had sourced 300 Persons with Mobility impairements and Cerebral Palsy after various filtering and written test and interview.

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