JOIN US With an aim to provide employment opportunities and skills for hundreds of disabled youth, Bangalore University’s Braille Resource Centre will hold a one-day “University Connect Programme” on August 9.
The programme has been organised in collaboration with Enable India, an NGO and JP Morgan, a US financial and banking company.
A release from BU said that the programme will work with youth with disabilities to create job and career awareness among them, provide skills, training and placements and handholding them through the first few months of the job for better retention potential.
B Thimme Gowda, Vice Chancellor, BU, highlighted the work of the Braille Resource Centre which was established as a cell to support the educational needs of students with disabilities. “The Braille Resource Centre has signed an MoU with Enable India to help students with disabilities secure their future through employment.”