Goodwill Social Work Centre is a registered Indian Non-governmental organisation registered as a Society under the Tamilnadu Societies Registration Act 27 of 1975, Government of Tamilnadu {India}, Foreign Contributions (Regulations) Act 1976, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. It is duly registered under section 12-A {b} of the Income Tax Act 1961.

Since its inception our organisation has been working in the areas of children's rights, children’s rights through artwork, Children’s environmental health rights, humanitarian aid, Intensive family preservation of dysfunctional families, Youth and women development, on-formal employment training for youth, community technology services, environment education and action, social research,, NGO capacity building and networking and NGO consultancy.

Problem

Young girls and women in low and moderate income families in a developing country like India do not have access opportunities for acquiring computer skills and are virtually shut out from accessing computers.Since empowerment of poor girls and young women is a crucial pre-requisite for sustainable development, ICT is considered as one of the most powerful weapons in the empowerment process.Our digital training programme has benefitted young women in learning different computer skills and contracting job work in local workplaces.

Solution

This is a community based ICT project which aims at empowering girls and young women low and moderate income families with technology skills and usage in a community based setting which provides them with intensive hands-on computer literacy training based on real life exercises and helping them with computer skills to advance economically and compete professionally in today’s digital economy and offering them career guidance and information and assisting them for gainful employment in ICT related fields.

Example

The Panda IT Aid award 2006 has been given to Goodwill social work centre for setting up Community Technology Centres for children and young women in low and middle income families in and around Madurai, India. The aim of the project is to create Community Technology centres in Madurai, India, to teach women andchildren in low to middle income families about new information technologies. It aims to train young women and children, so that they can be incorporated in the labor market in local organizations or even set up new businesses and computer centres. The award has been given to GOODWILL for setting up Community Technology Centres for children and young women in low and middle income families in and around Madurai, India. The aim of the project is to create Community Technology centres in Madurai, India, to teach women and children in low to middle income families about new information technologies. It aims to train young women and children, so that they can be incorporated in the labor market in local organizations or even set up new businesses and computer centres.Please check view our webalbum on CTC activities at http://picasaweb.google.com/chrisdangswc/GOODWILLPANDAITAIDPROJECT20 06 This is a multi-stakeholder partnership involving three actors namely business,nonprofit and government.The business partnership is offered by Panda Software through the award of grants, monitoring and evaluation of the project while the govt partnership is provided by Jan Shikshan Sansthan{Madurai},Ministry of Human resources development, Government of India.

Marketplace

Goodwill Social work centre is the only NGO involved in taking up community Technology services project for children and young women in low and moderate income communities in and around Madurai,India.This is an award winning Business-NGO project partnership initiative funded under the Panda IT Aid Project 2006,Panda Sofware International,Spain,which is first of its kind to have been undertaken by an Indian NGO in the State of Tamilnadu,India.We do not have peers and competitors in this region.This is a This is a multi-stakeholder partnership involving three actors namely Business, Nonprofit and Government Panda Software by Jan Shikshan Sansthan, Ministry of HRD,Govt of India and Goodwill Social Work Centre,Madurai,India.