Aspire and Aid India to aid creative learning for underprivileged childrenAspire and Aid India to aid creative learning for underprivileged children New Delhi, February 20, 2008: Aspire Systems, India’s leading outsourced product development company, today announced its plan to start a creative learning programme for the school children of Chennai in partnership with Aid India, a Chennai based NGO. This programme will run in 20 Panchayat Union Primary Schools (PUPS) and Panchayat Union Middle Schools (PUMS) in and around Siruseri at Chennai for one full academic year (from March 2008 to December 2008). This creative learning programme would include ‘Reading and Science’ lessons through activities/experiments to the school children of PUPS and PUMS. The aim of this programme is to build reading habits among the children and to make their learning/education full of scientific temperament. Speaking on the occasion Mr. Gowri Shankar Subramanian, CEO, Aspire Systems said, “Aspire Systems is aware of its social responsibility and would be more than happy to contribute the best for the community living in and around us.” He added, “In order to have a better tomorrow it is imperative for us to support these underprivileged children. The ‘Reading and Science’ creative learning programme is designed to buoyant the creativity of the children having tremendous potential to behold the future of the nation." Mr. Balaji Sampath, Secretary, Aid-India, said, “Tamil Nadu has an excellent school system but in certain rural pockets and child labour intensive areas, there is a very serious problem of learning quality. Aid-India in partnership with Aspire Systems, through this creative learning programme, aims to ensure that every child is learning in a well organized and meaningful manner.” About the Programme: Aspire System in tie-up with Aid India is going to launch a reading programme called - ‘Padippum Inikkum’ (Education is sweet) and Science programme called – ‘Ariviyal Anandham’ (Science is fun). These two programs will be run by the AID INDIA team along with Aspirians from Aspire’s CSR wing, Polestar. 55 Polestars would split themselves into groups and each group would adopt a school from the identified 20 schools. The Polestars would assist the Aid India volunteers during this program. The team would train teachers and provide them with the required materials and kits to conduct the classes and library activities. The team would also ensure that the classes are being run as planned and work with the teachers to improve the quality of learning in the schools. Headmasters from 20 schools and Polestars would be present on this occasion to boost up the morale of the children participating in this creative learning programme. About Aspire Systems Aspire Systems is an Outsourced Product Development firm committed to helping our customers build software products better and faster. We work with some of the world’s most innovative Independent Software Vendors and software-enabled businesses, ranging from start-ups to established industry leaders, transforming the way software is built. Our approach to product development is based on the pioneering concept of “Producteering™” , which we have evolved and refined through years of product-building experience. Producteering is a set of Principles and Practices, driven by the right People and supported by the right Platforms. Producteering, when applied rigorously, will always result in well-engineered, high-quality software. Aspire provides complete product lifecycle services, ranging from new product development and product advancement to product migration, re-engineering, sustenance and support. By leveraging our experience in working on over 500 product releases, we bring products to market faster, with better quality and reduced R&D costs. Aspire has been a winner of Deloitte’s Fast500 Asia Pacific and Fast50 India programs and we have been featured in the revered Black Book of Outsourcing. Our product development teams are spread between our Global Innovation Center in Chennai, India and offices in the United States. About Aid India: AID INDIA is a voluntary organization that is working in 10000 schools and villages in 10 districts across Tamil Nadu. AID INDIA’s mission is to ensure quality education for every child. For the last 6 years Aid India has been developing a collection of low cost science experiments and also developing science dialogues as a way to get children to think about science concepts and to link their observations of the world around them with the science they learn at school. For further information contact: Namita Sreekumar
Aspire Systems India (Pvt) Ltd
Ph: 044 – 67404000 Extn : 4064
E-mail: namita.sreekumar@aspiresys.com |
