100% campus placement: CSR initiative turns 25 tribal women in Wayanad into Ayur Nurses
Twenty-five tribal women from Wayanad have graduated as certified Ayur Nurses, all securing job placements before completing their exams. This initiative, funded by ZEISS India's CSR program, aimed to empower women from below poverty line families through intensive training in Ayurveda. The program not only provided professional skills but also enhanced personal development, enabling these women to pursue better opportunities in healthcare.
- ▪The graduates received six months of training at the Ayurveda Nursing Training Institute in Wayanad.
- ▪All 25 women secured job placements from various ayurvedic hospitals before graduation.
- ▪The initiative was supported by ZEISS India's CSR wing and executed by Bharat Shodh NGO.
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Breaking systemic marginalisation, 25 tribal women from below poverty line (BPL) families in Wayanad graduated as certified Ayur Nurses on Friday. The entire graduating cohort secured formal job placements, several weeks before completing their final examinations, from reputed Ayurveda and AYUSH hospitals based in Bengaluru.These women received an intensive six-month training at the Ayurveda Nursing Training Institute in Meenangadi, located in Kerala’s Wayanad district, a facility fully funded by the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) wing of ZEISS India, a Bengalauru-based India subsidiary of the 178-year-old German optics technology and instruments major Carl Zeiss.
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