Microsoft To Train Bangladesh Youths

BusinessWeek is reporting that Microsoft will provide computer training to more than 2,000 disadvantaged youths in rural Bangladesh over the next year.

The U.S.-based software giant will give a grant of $90,000 (74,820 euros) for software and training curriculum to the Bangladesh-based Learn Foundation to implement the program in northeastern Bangladesh, Saw Ken Wye, Microsoft’s president in Southeast Asia, was quoted as saying by the Ittefaq newspaper.

Source: BusinessWeek