KMS Sponsors Lab Room, Computers and Specialized Training Courses to Support Underprivileged Students in Central Vietnam
Danang, Vietnam [October 10, 2018] – Representatives of KMS Technology, a provider of offshore product development and software testing for the US market, recently visited Passerelles numériques Vietnam (PNV) and officially announced its long-term partnership in supporting their Information Technology program to support underprivileged students in the Central provinces. The initial sponsorship totaled 200 million VND ($8.5K USD), alongside an offering of IT devices, equipment and specialized training courses.
PNV is a non-profit organization in Danang with nearly 300 students who come from disadvantaged families of Quang Binh, Quang Tri, Kontum, Binh Dinh and other Central provinces. The students have been selected and trained, with 98% of them gaining employment after graduating.
The co-operation between the organizations include periodic facility funding, computers and R&D equipment, and vocational and skills training courses. Additionally, KMS Technology is committed to providing internship opportunities, with living expenses covered for PNV students to experience a real-world working environment in its HCMC offices.
During this first phase, KMS Technology has donated a lab room with 50 computers and several scholarships to third-year students. During the trip, representatives from KMS held several professional tutoring sessions on software design, testing and career orientation workshops to help the students get a better understanding of different career paths in the IT industry. Other activities, such as decorating classrooms and networking sessions, helped the students practice English as well as other soft skills.
“The application of information technology in social activities is one of the business-oriented commitments of KMS Technology, especially to the IT community in Vietnam. In the future, KMS Technology and PNV will jointly initiate and work on larger projects, which will contribute to the professional capacity development of students in the Central provinces, thereby helping them to have a better foundation for a more stable life.”, Mr.Tran Trong Dai, Managing Director of KMS Technology shared.
“With the co-operation and support from KMS Technology and other enterprises in the industry, PN Vietnam hopes to continue the roles of creating better chances for young people and students in Central Vietnam by providing access to technology; searching and developing the next IT engineer generation. Thereby, helping to improve the living standards of the people in the Central provinces of Vietnam.”, said Mrs. Vo Hoang Thuy Trang – Managing Director of PN Vietnam.
ABOUT PASSERELLES NUMERIQUES VIETNAM (PNV)
“Passerelles numériques (PN) is a French NGO, established in 2005 and operating in 3 Asian countries: Cambodia, the Philippines and Vietnam. Passerelles numériques enables young underprivileged people to build their employability through education in the digital industry. After 15 years of operation, more than 2000 students have graduated from 03 centers of PN.
Launched in 2010 in Danang, Vietnam, Passerelles numériques Vietnam (PN Vietnam) offers an IT training program. Each year, from January to August, PN Vietnam’s selection team covers 7 provinces in Central Vietnam, collaborating with high schools and Study Promotion Associations to go through a rigorous process to select talented and motivated underprivileged youths. Up to now, PN Vietnam has 258 graduates and 130 students studying the program.”
ABOUT KMS TECHNOLOGY
KMS Technology was founded by a team of information technology veterans in the United States and Vietnam with a vision of building an agile, innovative and efficient organization that increases our clients’ shareholder value.
With KMS’s 1,000 resources, we provide services across the software development life-cycle through partnerships with clients ranging from startups to large enterprises. We offer two main service lines: Offshore Product Development and Independent Software Testing. Our objective is to collaboratively build client success stories. With every client’s engagement, we expect both KMS Technology and our clients to share stories of successful projects, products and relationships that we grow and develop each day.
In addition to external customer projects, we also build and launch our own software products, seeing success with QASymphony, Kobiton and Katalon through our internal incubator, UpStar Labs.
