UNICEF India, SAP India Partner to Improve Employability of the Young

On World Youth Skills Day, UNICEF India today announced its partnership with SAP India to provide career counselling to young people in the country that will improve their employability skills in a COVID and post COVID era. UNICEF is collaborating with YuWaah (Generation Unlimited) under this initiative to provide digital education and occupational skillset to the underserved young people of the country.

Under the collaboration UNICEF – YuWaah – SAP will strengthen the following:

* Improve digital skills and life skills for young people

* Provide young people with career options.

* Reimagine the model in other states with the Government of India

* Impacting one million young people by the end of 2022

Young people living in rural areas are particularly vulnerable when it comes to career and employability opportunities due to limited access to information, training, opportunities or the skills to participate fully in India’s modernizing technology-driven economy. The national aggregate on learner-computer ratio is reported to be 1:89, suggesting an inequitable access[1] in rural schools. Evidence[2] suggests that technology solutions can be optimized better to address poor learning levels, low retention rates, poor life-skills, and gender inclusion.

“Quality education and digital inclusion have never been more important. COVID-19 has exposed the fragility of access to education and this couldn’t be more relevant to India which has the highest number of young people, said Alexandra van der Ploeg, Head of CSR at SAP. “Together with UNICEF in support of the UN’s Generation Unlimited initiative, we can use the power of innovation to solve social issues and help our youth through education, workforce readiness, and entrepreneurship. In true SAP spirit, our unique partnership with UNICEF will not only maximize our collective impact but inspire young people in India and across the globe to help the world run better. After all, if our young people aren’t given the opportunities for skill development, they won’t be able to associate and support social causes that help in development of a nation,” she said.

“COVID-19 has led to disruptions in educational, economic and social spheres of life, that has thrown up many challenges for young people. The UNICEF – YuWaah – SAP India partnership will empower young people to help them harness their creativity, problem-solving and leadership to make a difference in their lives and in their communities. This partnership will address urgent challenges young people face by equipping them with life skills, social innovation and career guidance,” said Dr. Yasmin Ali Haque, UNICEF Representative in India.

Vestige Launches ASSURE Night Care Gel Crème for Youthful Healthy Skin in Indian Market

Healthy Skin 

* Non-greasy and fast-absorbing formulation ensures complete skin care overnight

* It has anti-ageing properties. It hydrates and nourishes the skin, making it healthy and youthful

* Enriched with natural ingredients like Roseroot extract, Sicilian Sumac extract, Vitamin E and Shea butter

Vestige Marketing Pvt. Ltd., one of India’s leading direct selling companies and the manufacturer of hygiene, health and wellness products, expands its personal care portfolio with the launch of the ASSURE Night Care Gel Crème. Created from natural ingredients such as Roseroot and Sicilian Sumac extracts along with Shea tree butter, this Vitamin E enriched ASSURE Night Care Gel Crème gives one a healthy skin.

The ASSURE Night Care Gel Crème hydrates and nourishes the skin, while its anti-ageing properties provide a youthful and healthy look. It also helps maintain the skin’s natural elasticity, firmness and texture. It is an addition to Vestige’s growing portfolio of moisturisers, creams, masks and cleansers in the beauty and skincare segment.

Commenting on the launch, Mr Gautam Bali, MD, Vestige Marketing Pvt Ltd said, “We are delighted to share that we are expanding our portfolio of skincare and beauty products, which is one of the fastest growing segments. ASSURE Night Care Gel Crème is a unique product with natural ingredients. It provides non-invasive skin care. In today’s busy life, people tend to ignore skin care. With dust and other pollutants, the skin takes all the brunt. A quality night cream can help enhance the skin’s health as it accelerates tissue repair and promotes cell renewal during sleep.”

The ASSURE Night Care Gel Crème is suitable for all weather conditions as it enhances the skin’s natural properties. It uses a fast-absorbing and non-greasy formulation that ensures complete overnight care of the skin and makes you ready for your morning mirror assessment.

The ASSURE Night Care Gel Crème works at various levels:

1.      Promotes skin cell rejuvenation and gene activity of antioxidant enzymes in the skin

2.      Protects against skin cell damage and skin eruptions due to its anti-inflammatory properties

3.      Preserves the youthfulness of the skin owing to rapidly renewing collagen and reduction in the appearance of fine lines; works as an anti-ageing solution as well.

ASSURE Night Care Gel Crème comes in a 60 gram pack and is priced at MRP ₹315.00, inclusive of all taxes.

Fewer American youth access Internet: Survey

Fewer young Americans have Internet access than their peers in the Czech Republic, Canada, Macao and Britain, a survey of 13 countries around the world showed.

Among 12 to 14 year olds, 100 percent of British youth use the Internet, followed by Israel at 98 percent, the Czech Republic and Macao and 96 percent and Canada at 95 percent, according to the World Internet report by the Center for the Digital Future.

By contrast, only 88 percent of Americans of the same age had access, trailed by Hungary and Singapore, where more than seven in 10 young people use the Internet.

Separately, a bulletin by a software company showed mobile phone access to the Internet burgeoning outside the United States, especially in Southeast Asia.

For the report by the Center for the Digital Future, headed by Jeff Cole at the University of Southern California, researchers in 13 countries talked to more than 25,000 people in Asia, Australia, North and South America and Europe in late 2007 and early 2008.

UNIVERSAL SERVICE LACKING
The Center report showed the United States trails other countries in older groups, too. U.S. Internet usage by those over 18 runs behind Sweden, New Zealand and Canada. Recently, U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin unsuccessfully proposed a universal service fund to promote high-speed Internet access, similar to the one for telephone service.

Martin also advocates new spectrum for wireless in the United States to facilitate Internet access and held a joint news conference with Larry Page, a founder of Google Inc, to promote the idea.

The Center report, issued annually in the United States and for the first time worldwide, said mobile phones are used for Internet access "by a very small percentage of users, with the exception of the United Kingdom."

But that may be out of date. A monthly bulletin issued by Norwegian software maker Opera Software shows mobile phone Internet access exploding.

Opera said that, during 2008, use of its Mini browser on mobile phones more than tripled, reaching 5 billion page views in October. The increase is especially marked in Southeast Asia and also showed spikes in Africa and the Middle East.

In Indonesia, user growth tripled. Page views there increased eight-fold and in the Philippines by 10-fold.

"In many of these Southeast Asian countries the mobile Web exists not because it complements existing means of access, but rather because it replaces them," Opera added.

Source: Reuters