Sensing the great need to work towards the safety of school-going children and an opportunity to employ women as support staff in schools in India, FICCI ladies Organisation (FlO) launched an ambitious 'FlO Women Empowerment (WE) in Education' initiative on Friday.
In the wake of recent unfortunate incidents with school-going girls in various parts of the country, the initiative aims to have more women in schools in non-teaching jobs to help address the issue of safety of children. Also, for women coming into employment for the first time, schools would provide an excellent and secure environment to work in. Those FlO members' who are running educational institutions, are playing major role to make this unique initiative a success and is being carried out by the all 15 Chapters of FlO pan-India.
The launch sees key stakeholders on the same platform who pledged their commitment and support to the initiative by employing more women staff in schools.
The FlO president, Ms Archana Garodia Gupta said FlO, WE in education, by encouraging employment and skill of women in school support jobs, can increase the safety of children as well as give employment to millions of women across the country. We are delighted at the enthusiastic response of schools and the whole-hearted support of Corporates' like G4 and Maruti. We urge schools nationwide to come forward and employ women.
On behalf of Maruti Suzuki, Mahesh Rajoria pledged to train 1500 women as drivers across 15 Chapter of FlO free of cost which translates into Rs3 crores. In addition, Advanced Security Training & Management Pvt ltd (ASTM) also pledged its support under the initiative by training women as security guards. G4S India, leading security solutions group promised jobs for 10,000 women security guards over next 3 years.
She added that FlO has invited the Government, school owners, security agencies, bus and catering companies working with schools nationwide to pledge to participate actively in this initiative along with skill trainers for these jobs.