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About Centum Foundation

C entum Foundation is a society registered under the

‘Societies Registration Act, 1860’ and has been delivering
social impact projects since year 2005 as a CSR arm of
Centum Learning Ltd. It has been implementing projects
on skill development, education, livelihood and entrepre-
neurship across the country. Projects designed and imple-
mented by Centum Foundation delivers sustained impact in
a most efficient way.

CENTURY
WOMEN CAPACITY
EMPOWERMENT BUILDING

SKILLS
UPSKILLING EMPLOYABILITY
ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION 21ST
VOCATIONAL SKILLS
CLASSROOM

IT & ITeS
PwDs
Apparel

GREEN JOBS STEM LABS

Beauty &
ENVIRONMENT
EDUCATION

Wellness
BFSI

ASSESSMENT Key
SMART

Telecom

Skilling
STUDIES
Retail

Construc�on Domains
Tourism &
Hospitality
Educa�on
Logis�cs
Green Jobs
Healthcare

and many more….

Our Offerings

Skill Development &

Livelihood
Employment Assistance

¤ Job linked skill training for entry level jobs ¤ Entrepreneurship & Self-Employment

¤ Employability & empowerment program ¤ NRM based livelihood promotion

for women

¤ Upskilling college students Education

¤ Green Jobs
¤ Formal & non-formal education

Emerging Areas ¤ Vocational training

¤ Digital learning & 21st century skills

¤ CSR advisory – Assessment studies, CSR
¤ Environment Education
life-cycle management
¤ Capacity building of local NGOs & Civic
Bodies
Some of our Impact Stories
HDFC Parivartan
Skilling of around 2,000 candidates in various job roles and
making them employable

HDFC Parivartan, CSR arm of HDFC Bank partnered with Centum

Foundation to fulfil the mission of imparting skill training to youth
from under privileged section of society and enhancing their
livelihood by making them employable. The overall objective of
the training is to impart training across 5 job roles i.e. retail
trainee associate, field technician and computer peripheral,
two wheeler delivery associate, mobile repair and hardware
technician and warehouse picker and packer, thereby providing
them with job placement in order to create sustainable livelihood
opportunities.

Airtel
Supported 150 youths in Chhindwara, Madhya Pradesh in setting
up micro & nano-enterprises

Centum Foundation in partnership with Airtel supported 150 men

and women in setting up micro & nano enterprises in Chhind-
wara, Madhya Pradesh. In this programme the aspiring entre-
preneurs underwent four days of entrepreneurship development
training, followed by six months of extended hand holding sup-
port in establishing and growing their business.

Also under this programme 5 dynamic rural women came together

to set up a group enterprise manufacturing cloth bags and garments.

RPG
Skilling 250 women in healthcare sector

RPG Foundation (RPG Group), joined hands with Centum

Foundation to provide skill training to 250 women candidates with
90% placements. The women candidates were trained along the
role of General Duty Assistant (GDA) and provided with place-
ment in health care sector. All these women were from less-privi-
leged and required social and economic support. The
Foundation through this project is not only benefiting the
healthcare sector by providing it with manpower, but also
empowering women by making them employable & independent.

Nuclear Power Corporation of India

Skilled rural underprivileged women on stitching and tailoring

Centum Foundation partnered with Nuclear Power Corporation of

India (NPCIL) to establish a stitching/Industrial Tailoring training
center with an objective to improve the employability and
enable women empowerment among the rural women living in
the vicinity of the NPCIL plant.

The objective was to train and empower 200 women in five

villages of Karnataka on tailoring course. As a result of this
initiative, the women are now empowered to support themselves
and their families.
 Yes Foundation
Developed sigh nation App to bridge the gap between deaf and
non-deaf

Centum Foundation partnered with Yes Foundation to create a

digital platform for expanding the awareness and the usage of
the Indian Sign Language to bring deaf and non-deaf
communities to a common ground. The targeted beneficiaries
were members of the deaf community and non-deaf people
willing to learn communication techniques with the deaf
community. The digital solution was termed ‘Sign Nation’. The Sign
Nation App is a joint initiative by Yes Foundation, Centum Founda-
tion & Noida Deaf Society.

Capgemini
Employability generation program for 1,600+ women engineers

Capgemini as a part of its CSR initiative wanted to enhance em-

ployability skills of young women coming from economically
weaker sections of the society and pursuing the course of
engineering. Centum foundation partnered with Capgemini to
turn the vision into reality and is running this project by
imparting training on software development. The focus is to not
only provide training but also ensure 100 percent placement by
aligning them with suitable job opportunities.

Mahindra & Mahindra United Breweries Ltd. Airtel

Generating livelihood and
Conducted Need Assessment Reached out to 7,000+
promoting farm mechani-
Study around United Breweries youth with programmes on
zation by training 720 youth
Ltd. plants to assess water skill development, com-
in tractor driving and use
management practices in 3 petitive exam coaching,
of tractor mount farm
locations across Rajasthan, entrepreneurship develop-
equipment in 3 locations
Haryana and Karnataka ment program and
across Maharashtra,
upskilling of women
Rajasthan and Telangana
self-employed tailors

Citi Bank Bank of America

Trained 10,000+ youth Trained 325 youth and placed
(75% women) for the job 70%, from underserved
role General Duty Assistant community in General Duty
(GDA) and facilitated Assistant (GDA) trade under
employment for 7,000+ in healthcare sector to ensure
Maharashtra and West gainful employment, in two
Bengal locations across Gujarat and
Telangana
 Impacting Lives
Partnering Organization to fullfill their
CSR Mandates
Shweta
Chandrakant
Nikam,
a 23 yr old
young girl rom
shirila taluka
village in Sangli
Maharashtra.
She is the only child in her family and
lives with her mother and grandmother.
Shweta’s life journey has not been easy.
She had lost her father as a child and
her grandfather during the COVID-19
pandemic who was the only bread
earner after her father’s death.
She heard about the Capgemini's She
Arise 2.0 program in a college mail
which is a zero-cost training with 100%
placement assistance. With encourage-
ment from her family, she grabbed this
opportunity with sincerity and dedica-
tion. In the training, she got to work on
real-life projects, which was something
new and quite challenging but she
enjoyed it.
Shweta cleared her Interim Assessment
and got placed in Capgemini. After
which she told us with sparkling eyes
that, “Now I am backbone of my family
and it’s the greatest blessing for me to
get this opportunity”.

and many more….

“
Chinnakotla
Tharun
hails from a
The program that we implemented in partnership with Centum
small village
Foundation aimed at delivering 21st-century technology skills to the Akkayapally in
youth from unprivileged communities. This program not just helped Andra Pradesh.
them develop a future for themselves but also improved the finances He comes from
of their entire family. underprivileged section of society and
his father’s earning was not enough to
Philanthropies Team, Microsoft suffice the need of the family so just
after completing his 12th in search of
livelihood to support his family, came to
Hyderabad and got to know about the
We are glad that Centum Foundation is a partner to ACC as far as course of pharmacy Assistant program
and enrolled himself into it.

& every time after the student placements when we get to interact

youth of our country, we feel proud that they are successfully

“
our nation-building theme for youth and ability is concerned. With our
combined efforts we have established training centers in 5 locations

with their parents, their villagers, and especially these students the

employed in a sustained way. Their quality of life has changed. They

are able to send money back home & take care of their family and
livelihood.
He attended all the classes and pursued
the course with utmost dedication. His
passion towards the course and knowl-
edge was clearly reflected at the time of
placements. He got placed in Apollo
Pharmacy during the first phase of
placement. At present, he is working with
branch of Apollo Pharmacy based at L.B
Nagar in Hyderabad and earns 11,000
- CSR Head, ACC Ltd. per month. Today he is very happy as he
is able to extend financial support to his
family and, he is really thankful to
Yuvakendra HCL Foundation and
Centum Foundation Hyderabad for
making him employable.
 Awards & Recognition

Global CSR Excellence Award Global CSR Excellence Award Innovations in CSR Practices
for 'Efforts towards building an for ‘Women Empowerment Award for ‘Digital Skills
inclusive world', 2022 Program', 2022 Program‘, 2021

Brandon Hall Gold Award for India's Most Trusted Training & Best Corporate Foundation
‘Best Advance in Social Impact Skill Development Company Award for Skill Development
Innovation’, 2021 by IBC, USA 2021 Program, 2019

HR Excellence Award for Leading Best Program Implementing

Practices under Diversity & Agency by Kudumbashree
Inclusion Initiative, 2018 Mission, 2017

Achieve your CSR Mandate with Centum Foundation

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