By BW Hotelier

THE ACCOR Centre of Hope, hosted the graduation of its second batch of students at the ibis Delhi Airport Hotel recently.-Established in 2013 in-Mahipalpur, New Delhi, by Accor India with the support of ibis Delhi Airport, Solidarity Accor and the HOPE Foundation, the charity has successfully trained 103 students in the last-two years.
This year, 49 students graduated in varying vocational disciplines such as Hospitality, Retail, Computers and English after a rigorous 6 month course. More than half of these students have already secured employment for themselves in the hospitality and retail sector through the organization’s placement programme.
The charity, which has been set up in collaboration with the international NGO HOPE, aims to improve the service industry employability of young people from underprivileged sections of the Delhi National Capital Region by offering them access to short vocational training programmes.
The Senior Vice President of Accor Hotels India, Jean-Michel Casse, in his speech at the event, reaffirmed his belief that the charity would help integrate these young people into the community through the creation of local economic opportunity by boosting their individual employability. He also claimed that the growing service industry in India was conducive to this and required ’a great talent pool of skilled workers’’ to support it, something that these people have the potential to provide.
Along with Casse, P. Chandrasekaran, Senior Programme Director at the HOPE Foundation was felicitating the event.