Students of the Ann Sullivan Center (CASP) will be able to enter the labor market thanks to the Employment Network program administered by the Cisco business and the San Ignacio de Loyola University (USIL).
As a result of this, thirteen students from CASP took classes over a period of three months (twelve Sundays) covering computer and systems management as part of the pilot project that Cisco and USIL also launched, in favor of women of scarce resources.
By forming part of the first Employment Network, which is an initiative led by the Computer Engineering and Systems Program of USIL, our students are being trained in the field of Information and Communications Technologies in order to be included in the labor market, which contributes to the improvement of their quality of life and the narrowing of the digital gap.
“The Employment Network program constitutes a digital connection between people with different abilities and employing businesses, educational institutions, government entities and Cisco Networking Academy. By being registered in our network, they could be interviewed and considered for work opportunities,” said Ana María Ramírez, director of the Computer Engineering and Systems Program at USIL.
Founder and Executive Director of CASP, Liliana Mayo, PhD., said, “This new alliance had a new initiative: that of including people with different abilities for the first time. The students in information technology are also helping the students from CASP, which prepares them for future employment in information technology, which is one of the main objectives.”
Luis Alonso Rodríguez, a student of the program, also highlighted the importance of his participation in the project: “Here I can learn technology, the web and the internet.”
The CASP students assigned to participate in USIL’s and Cisco’s project are between the ages of 15 and 45 and come from the School Inclusion and Regular Classrooms programs. Their diagnoses are autism, mild retardation, Down syndrome and cognitive deficit.
It is worth noting that in Peru two out of every three people when different abilities lack some degree of education or only received an elementary education in many cases. Only one out of every ten has reached higher education. And only two out of every ten find employment.