Goodwill social work centre, an Indian NGO based at Madurai,India has been declared as one of the four winners of “Panda IT Aid”, Panda Software International, Spain(www.pandasoftware.com). The other organisations are Save the Children (with a pan-European project),Spain, Fundación Braille (Uruguay) and Paideia (Paraguay). These four winning projects were selected from 15 finalists through a vote held among all the employees of the Panda Group across 56 countries. In a previous phase, the selection committee had selected the fifteen finalist initiatives from the more than 130 projects presented in this first edition of Panda IT Aid. GOODWILL has received a cash award and Panda Software solutions for the Community Technology centres created in Madurai,India

This is a multi-stakeholder partnership involving three actors namely business, nonprofit and government. The business partnership is offered by Panda Software through the award of grants, monitoring and evaluation of the project while the govt partnership is provided by Jan Shikshan Sansthan{Madurai},Ministry of Human resources development, Government of India through accreditation and certification of the digital learning courses, performance management and award of certificates to successful candidates. Nonprofit partnership involves GOODWILL’s role in project implementation, performance management, reporting and documentation

BECOME A PARTNER OF THIS INNOVATIVE PROJECT

The Centre is looking for grant help from potential funders,corporates,and funding organisations for setting up five more Community Technology Centres for the poor children and women in low and middle income Indian communities in and around Madurai and its neighbouring villages,Tamilnadu,South India.

I invite you to be a project partner of the Goodwill Social Work Centre and seek your valuable financial assistance for establishing more Community Technology Centres for the children and women in low amd moderate income communities in villages and backward areas in Madurai, India.Your funds will be utilized for basic infrastructure requirements such as computer systems and accessories, internet connection, furniture, rent, electricity, books and computer learning materials, salary to staff etc.

I invite you to join us in this innovative project and partner with us. Please take a few moments to visit my organisation’s website at www.goodwillsocialworkcentre.org.

Contact person:

Prof.Dr.J.Christopher Daniel, M.A., Ph.D (social work)

Executive Director

Goodwill Social Work Centre

No: 5,South street Extension

Singarayar colony

MADURAI-625002

INDIA

Email: chriskan@satyam.net.in