100% campus placement: CSR initiative turns 25 tribal women in Wayanad into Ayur Nurses

Key points

• Breaking systemic marginalisation, 25 tribal women from below poverty line (BPL) families in Wayanad graduated as certified Ayur Nurses on Friday.
• The entire graduating cohort secured formal job placements, several weeks before completing their final examinations, from reputed Ayurveda and AYUSH hospitals based in Bengaluru.
• These women received an intensive si month training at the Ayurveda Nursing Training Institute in Meenangadi, located in Kerala’s Wayanad district, a facility fully funded by the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) wing of ZEISS India, a Bengalauru-based India subsidiary of the 178-year-old German optics technology and instruments major Carl Zeiss.
• The on-the-ground execution was managed by Bharat Shodh, a non-governmental organisation.
• “Empowering communities has always remained at the heart of our purpose, and this initiative reflects that commitment,” said Dhaval Radia, chief financial officer of ZEISS India.