Accenture raises goal of skills training program
This continued dedication will help us achieve our increased goal of Accenture is collaborating with nonprofits on more than 200 Skills to Succeed initiatives worldwide, which focus on making a sustained impact around the world. Key projectsin the Philippines include:Passerelles Numeriques equips underprivileged but promising youth with college equivalent IT education. The ongoing partnership with PN has produced 24 graduate scholars on Systems and Network Administration at Cebu’s University of San Carlos. Almost halfof them are now employed as IT specialists in Accenture in Cebu. Save the Children helps provide approximately 7,000 disadvantaged and at risk young people in Egypt, Indonesia and the Philippines with vocational and life skills that assist them insecuring lasting employment. Through the Philippine Business for Social Progress, Accenture’s grant to Bote Central has empowered over a thousand Filipino farmers of ten organized coffee communities across thecountry in its first year. Through the conduct of business consultations and onsite training programs, and provision for a simplified accounting and inventory system at the community level, the farmers are now able to produce and sell coffee beans notonly to their surrounding communities, but also to coffee companies. To help augment their family income, Accenture funded the training on smoked fish and deboned fish processing for 120 mothers in Anda, Pangasinan. “We have witnessed the profound effect skills training has on people, businesses, industries,markets and communities,” said Manolito Tayag, Accenture country managing director. Skills to Succeed is Accenture’s global corporate citizenship initiative, which focuses on advancing employment and entrepreneurship opportunities in both mature and emerging markets. Additionally, the company offers its people volunteering and probono opportunities and expands its impact by replicating and scaling successful initiatives. Accenture and the Accenture Foundations will contribute more than $100 million, by the end of 2013 to support the company’s corporate citizenship efforts, through global and. localgiving, as well as pro bono contributions of time and employee skills.
Published in The Philippine Star, A29, 12 August 2013