GROHE JAL Academy Wins Innovation Competition of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development

GROHE JAL Academy Wins Innovation Competition of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development PR Newswire NEW DELHI, December 13, 2012 NEW DELHI, December 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- "GROHE JAL Academy", the CSR project in India initiated by GROHE AG, Europe's largest and the world's leading single-brand manufacturer and supplier of sanitary fittings, was honored with the "Innovation competition for professional education projects in developing countries" prize launched by Germany's Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. The concept of 'Helping people to help themselves' has been put into action by the GROHE JAL Academy in this project, which was undertaken as a CSR initiative of GROHE AG in India wherein complete support was extended to the Don Bosco Centre for Learning in Kurla, Mumbai for the purpose of educating underprivileged youth and training them as qualified sanitary fittings installers. The training workshop at the Don Bosco Learning Center qualifies young people from economically challenged backgrounds, many of whom have lived in the streets, to become professional plumbers. This gives them the opportunity to start their career as skilled tradesmen and to earn their own livelihood. The prizes were handed over to the winners by Parliamentary State Secretary Gudrun Kopp at the Berlin Representative Office of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit.