The mission of the Cherukonda Institute in USA is to enhance the knowledge of Information Technology by providing training to children and adults with disabilities and functional limitations.

  Our Focus

• Helping PWD students to pursue their professional career goals by understanding the possibilities that Information Technology offers.
• Allowing teachers and mentors to achieve this goal.
• Guiding students to seek out their interests and attain their overall goals in IT through the use of effective mentoring on applying their academic knowledge to achieve their career goals.
• Fostering an environment with business leaders and entrepreneurs in which students can develop the appropriate balance between business and technological skills in their profession.
• Working with the educational process to seamlessly integrate technology to empower students/individuals to create value and solve real business problems.
• Securing the funding needed to support the work of the the PWD by providing an emotional connection to the Foundation’s purpose/mission and tangible returns in financial and other resources for our donors.

The trustees of Cherukonda Institute in USA

Vag Devi Tatineni

  Dr.Rekha Kaza

                         Vasantaraju Cherukonda  

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Cherukonda Foundation is helping The Professionals with Disabilities Special Interest Group called ITKAN (IT Knowledge Abilities Network) by providing training in ERP/SAP skills at no cost. Cherukonda Foundation is helping them to secure suitable ERP/SAP jobs. 

Our Activities

• Retrain PWD in IT
• Conduct work shops on Business Development and Management
• Encourage, teach, and train PWDs to become entrepreneurs
• Help PWDs develop skills to work on RFP/IBF
• Impart training on management consulting skills
• Develop skills to work on susiness application programming interfaces
• Train PWDs to develop business add ins to ERP applications
• Work towards making the PWD students  employable
• Invite IT consulting firms to conduct job oriented hands-on skills development activities
• Encourage PWDs to participate in the earning while learning program
  
• Create awareness on IT tools that are easy to learn and allow a high chance of employment
• Conduct career counciling program
• Conduct job fairs
• Conduct lunch and learn program
  
• Train the trainer program
  
• Everyone teach one program
• Everyone find one opportunity program
• Everyone place one on a job program
• Each program team up with other PWD programs
  
• Everyone support one remote program