BPO training being conducted for trainers at NDS by Enable India
On 23rd March Shanti Raghavan of Enable India conducted a BPO training for the team at NDS. It was a fruitful session where Shanti shared some technical training inputs that we can impart to our students, which will enable them to sustain themselves in employment.

Distribution of Hearing Aids by Starkey
Starkey, a hearing aid manufacturing company provided hearing aids to some of our students and staff free of cost. Many of our young students who are in the age group of 7 to 11 were given these aids as the aids are more useful at a younger age. In the words of Saudamini, one of our trainers who received the machine, “For the first time in my life, I was able to hear my son’s voice. I cannot describe the joy.”

Exposure Visit to Shangri- La Hotel
A new partnership has been initiated with Shangri- la Hotels, who would be employing our students in the backend areas. The team from the hotel visited our centres and this was followed by an exposure visit for the students to the hotel. The students found the exposure useful as they got to learn about the real work operations that take place in the different departments

Students of Sardar Patel Vidyala Visiting NDS and interacting with our students
Sardar Patel Vidyalaya  invited NDS to conduct a four day sign language orientation from 12th to 16th April’ 10 for their students of class X and XII. The students showed much enthusiasm and actively participated in the workshop. We had very interactive sessions with games, mime and role plays which both NDS team and the students enjoyed. On the last day the students visited our organization and spent time interacting with our students and trainers using Indian Sign Language.

Cricket Match with Mphasis
Mphasis organized a friendly match with our cricket team, NDS Tigers on 8th May’ 10. It was an exciting match and our team beat Mphasis. Both the teams had a great time in spite of the heat and in no time both the teams were smoothly communicating with each other. Post the match, Mphasis employees took our team to their office to show them around. They even explained about their HR rules and our students got a wonderful exposure to their working environment.

Sandeep Mallik, Trainer from Mphasis with Deaf Students
Following the successful pilot last year, we started our second batch of training in Computer Networking and Hardware in partnership with Mphasis, an HP company in May. This second batch of 7 students were trained by a volunteer from Mphasis, Sandeep Mallik. It was a two month training conducted once a week. The students found the training very useful and feel that the knowledge will help them in their careers in the future. The students are now being evaluated and post successful evaluation they would be employed with Mphasis most probably in Pune. Two of our students who were trained last year in the pilot batch also came and conducted a session with the students and shared about their experience of working with Mphasis

Training at Mphasis, Pune
We have scaled new heights with some breakthrough employment opportunities for our students. 15 of our students have been employed at Mphasis, a leading IT organization in Pune in a profile called Information Technology Outsourcing. It has indeed been a big breakthrough as NDS is now spreading its wing outside Delhi as well. We had a week long training programme in Pune where the students were trained on the job and we had sensitization and sign language orientation for the team. It was wonderful to see the enthusiasm that the team at Mphasis showed towards this initiative.