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DESCRIPTION:Special Presentation by Ngo Thi Huyen Minh\, co-founder and Gen
 eral director of Will to Live\n\nPart of the Future Networks Monthly Webin
 ar Series\n\nDate/Time: Wednesday\, 19 March 2025 @ 11:00AM ET\n\nTopic:\n
 \nEmpowering Women Leaders in Challenging Times\n\nAbstract:\n\nThis talk 
 celebrates the accomplishments that women have made in the lives of others
  through empowering them through technology. We provide comprehensive supp
 ort for people with disability. The Will to Live Center (WLC) is a nonprof
 it\, based in Hanoi\, Vietnam\, that provides free computer and life skill
 s training courses\, to people with disabilities\, in order to help them f
 ind employment and integrate fully into society. The WLC\, also runs sever
 al social initiatives with the goal of ending the discrimination and stigm
 a that people with disabilities face\, on a daily basis.\n\nThe Will to Li
 ve Center supports and assists people with disabilities\, to integrate com
 pletely into society\, through employment services and social initiatives.
  Our vision is to support people living with disabilities and provide them
  with technology and life skills\, to ensure equal opportunities and acces
 s in the technical field and society as whole.\n\nFind out more info at ht
 tps://en.nghilucsong.net/about-will-to-live-center/\n\nSpeaker:\n\nI am th
 e co-founder and General director of Will to Live- Social Enterprise which
  is providing free IT training and job support for people with disabilitie
 s in Vietnam.\n\nWith more than 15 years work with people with disabilitie
 s and over 10 years of experience in Human resource and management. I star
 ted up this business in order to establish an inclusive study and working 
 environment for the disabled\, especially disabled women. Because I am con
 vinced that education helps PWDs to find employment and generate an income
 .\n\nI believe the best workplace for PwDs is where they feel like their h
 ome\, where they can receive personalized and continual care from their ex
 tended family members\; especially for PwDs with mobility issues\, working
  from home provides immense savings in time and cost in transporting in Vi
 etnam&#39;s congested traffic.\n\nIt is such a rough journey that I saw how co
 mputers\, technology and the internet really changed their lives. They hav
 e jobs\, more friends and they really touched the world with their finger!
  even by their toes as some of them have to use the keyboard by feet inste
 ad of hands!\n\nWe have trained more than 1500 people with disabilities an
 d more than 70% of them now are having decent jobs. Since the start we com
 mitted to keep the staff with at least 40% PWDs (now more than 50%). And a
 ll the shareholders committed their support in sustainable inclusion by co
 ntributing their profit each to fund for vocational training for PWDs and 
 disadvantaged groups and the philanthropic work in the country.\n\nVirtual
 : https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/475286
LOCATION:Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/475286
ORGANIZER:c.polk@comsoc.org
SEQUENCE:29
SUMMARY:Empowering Women Leaders in Challenging Times
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