::::Intel India to mentor 7,000 girls::::

<img src=&quot;http://www.techgig.com/files/photo_1335579877_temp.png&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;Image&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; />Intel India<span style=&quot;color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left&quot;>&nbsp;will mentor up to 7,000 girls through its&nbsp;</span>Technology and Entrepreneurship Program<span style=&quot;color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left&quot;>&nbsp;launched recently in the Capital, says Shelly Esque, vice president at Intel, global director of the company's corporate affairs group and president, Intel Foundation.&nbsp;</span><br /><br /><span style=&quot;color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left&quot;>The programme will be conducted across 50 schools in and around Delhi.&nbsp;</span><br /><br /><span style=&quot;color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left&quot;>&quot;We felt girls and&nbsp;</span>women<span style=&quot;color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left&quot;>&nbsp;were under-represented in technology careers and usage, which is why we initiated this programme,&quot; she says. The children would benefit from the programme by discovering their entrepreneurial potential, enhancing the spirit of innovation, creativity and decision-making.&nbsp;</span><br /><br /><span style=&quot;color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left&quot;>It will also help develop financial and economic literacy and help create an independent identity for the girls, she adds.&nbsp;</span><br /><br /><span style=&quot;color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left&quot;>Intel India has already received around 15 business plans from about 35-40 girl children so far.&nbsp;</span><br /><br /><span style=&quot;color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left&quot;>The company has also started an Easy Steps programme, aimed at providing technological literacy to adults and youth across the country. It has tied up with organisations such as Pratham, Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan and the Ministry of Youth for this programme, though which nearly 75,000 people have already been trained.&nbsp;</span><br /><br /><span style=&quot;color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left&quot;>Intel invests about $100 million globally in corporate social responsibility programmes focused on areas such as&nbsp;</span>education<span style=&quot;color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left&quot;>, environmental sustainability, community and global relations efforts.</span>

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