For an internet company that is slowly motoring down the path to profitability, Satyam Infoway (Sify) has shown that social responsibility has nothing to do with how the bottomline of your company reads.
It has started and fostered initiatives that address the problems of quality IT education to students from economically weaker sections of society as also the degradation of the environment.
Sify Alambana and Sify Greenmail are two initiatives that the company has undertaken which have made a perceptible difference in the areas of concern they target.
Sify Alambana is a social service organisation run by the spouses of Sify Associates to provide, support and empower the weaker sections of society and to improve their socio-economic status. Alambana was registered as a trust in August, 2001.
"Alambana Vidya" which was inaugurated last in September, 2001 provides free quality IT education to students from economically weaker families to enable them to find suitable jobs.
It targets boys and girls between the ages of 18 and 21, who are unable to study further because of financial constraints or other reasons.
A maximum of 22 students are selected for a three-month full time course which will enable them to work as data entry operators, helpers in Internet cafes or find jobs in the retailing sector. The classes are conducted in premises in the basement of one of Sify
