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About WinVinaya Foundation

WinVinaya Foundation, a Charitable Trust, is one of the very few NGOs in India which trains Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) in niche and futuristic skills including Software Development, Data Visualization, Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and more.  

According to the 2011 Census, India has a population of over 1.3 billion of which 20 million are PWDs. Of these, only 13% have matric/secondary education and 8.5% are graduates.   

As per a study by NASSCOM, the employement rate of PWDs in the Private sector in India stands at a meagre 0.36%.  

Some of the key reasons are –  

The Candidates’ Stand Point  

  • Lack of availability to High Quality Inclusive Learning Solutions  
  • Lack of exposure to required skills and employment opportunities in the industry
  • Many inclusive and sincere Teachers don’t get relevant & adequate training to teach PWDs

The Employers’ Stand Point 

  • Mind block that PWDs cannot perform key roles 
  • Ignorance about the Best Practices of Inclusive Companies
  • Low organizational priority  

We aim to address these issues and act as a BRIDGE between the job seekers and the employers, fill the gaps on both the sides and enable success for both.

Awards & Recognition

We’re thrilled to share that WinVinaya Foundation has been honoured with the ATF Award for the “Best Assistive Technology Initiative among NGOs” at the Bengaluru Tech Summit on December 1, 2023. Our WinVinaya Academy, India’s First Digital Learning Academy for Persons with Disabilities, played a pivotal role in securing this recognition.

Akila and Shiva receiving the ATF Award for the "Best Assistive Technology Initiative among NGOs" at the Bengaluru Tech Summit.

WinVinaya Academy offers courses in Indian Sign Language and Simple English, covering a range of subjects including;

*Financial Accounting, Core Banking, MS Power BI, MS Office -MS Excel, MS Word, Tally.

*Full Stack Software Development (HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Java, Python, MySQL).

*Software Testing + Test Automation (Selenium).

* English and Soft skills.

This recognition underscores our dedication to using assistive technology to empower and uplift society.

A heartfelt thank you to all our supporters and beneficiaries. We are committed to expanding WinVinaya Academy, with more courses on the horizon. Stay tuned for updates on our continued journey towards a more inclusive and accessible future.

Humans of WinVinaya

Success Story of Symonne Kotian  

Symonne Kotian is a creative person with a pleasant smile. She is good at graphic designing, proficient in using software like Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Canva. She is an amazing artist and a person with Cerebral Palsy. Check out the video to know more about her.

Reflections

WinVinaya Foundation’s professional approach has enabled many opportunities for PWDs. They are innovative in finding solutions and ensure quality training, which is building confidence and commitment among PWDs to be proactive for employers.

Thanks Shiva and team for your contribution for the growth disability sector.

V S Basavaraju

(State Commissioner, RPWD Act
Government of Karnataka)

Reflections

WinVinaya Foundation has been doing tremendous work around imparting holistic vocational training for Persons with Disabilities (PWDs). The passion shown by the founders, Shiva Jayagopal and Akila Sankar, is extremely infectious and the approach they adopt for imparting training – and in placing the trained students – is modern, tech-savvy, refreshing, student-friendly, authentic and comes from a very good place. It’s my privilege to have been associated with them over the past few years.

Bharath Ram Sundararajan
(Business Leader – EY | Ex-DXC Technology, CSC, SAP and Cisco)

Reflections

Shiva, Akila & everyone at WinVinaya Foundation are an example and benchmark for how someone working for the disabled should be. Over the past year my interactions with them have strengthened my own conviction of my work. They are true to their goal, in letter and spirit and are what others like us aspire to be. The clarity of purpose, simplicity in action and humility in behaviour is not only inspirational but contagious as well. I am fortunate to work with them directly and in the process learnt a lot. It not only helped me at work but also enabled me to mature as a person. I wish WinVinaya Foundation years of success ahead and their genuine impact in transforming lives of many.

Chaithanya Kothapalli
(Co-Founder, Yunikee)

Reflections

I am a visually challenged person from Mangalore. I am one of the oldest employees at WVF. Over the years, I have learnt many things like Accessibility Testing, Software Testing and Java. Most of the people assume Visually Challenged persons cannot do coding but I don’t believe that, I can easily do simple Java Coding. I also lead Sourcing team at WVF. I am very happy about my role. I am very thankful to WVF because though my dream is to get a government job they have helped me create an identity for myself and support my family meanwhile still pursuing my dream.

Dhanraj Poojary
(Sourcing Specialist, WinVinaya Foundation)

Reflections

Wanted to pass on my appreciations to Akila, Shiva and the wonderful team at WinVinaya. They are doing a fabulous job towards training and making PWD employable and job ready. I cherish the brief moments I worked with them as part of conducting mock interviews to enable PWDs to be job ready and more confident before the actual interviews. The confidence and the never say die attitude of the PWD candidates is exemplary and is worth emulating. I would cherish the moments I worked with the WinVinaya team and look forward for more such opportunities in the near future. I wish the WinVinaya team continued success on this noble mission going forward.

Vijay Rajagopalan
(Delivery Manager -Adobe,  Bangalore)

Reflections

“The human spirit is one of ability, perseverance and courage that no disability can steal away”

My experience with PWD community was a beautiful eye opener, it made me realize that they have the passion to drive things forward and at many instances proved to be equal to us or even better. They had the generosity and willingness to learn, interact and stand by the strongest determination to make a mark in the world. They tried to channelise their inabilities to magnify their strengths which was a wonderful feat. I was fortunate to be a part of WinVinaya Foundation, which gave me an opportunity to work closely with them and witness the underlying essence of PWDs.

Anurima Kuthari
(Student, Intern)