New Delhi: A vocational centre for Information Technology (IT) has been setup by Amway in collaboration with the All India Confederation of the Blind (AICB) to train the visually impaired.

The AOF - AICB Centre of Excellence was inaugurated by William Pinckney, Chairman of the Amway Opportunity Foundation and MD & CEO of Amway India along with A.K. Mittal (President AICB), A.K Kaul (Secretary General AICB) and other officials of AOF and Amway Distributors.

Besides vocational training in Information Technology, personality development programmes and various soft skills modules will be offered to the visually impaired at the centre.

"We at Amway are extremely proud to be associated with AICB. Our decade-old relationship now has become even stronger today with a clear focus of enabling the visually challenged children to have a better future" said William Pinckney.

The All India Confederation of the Blind (AICB) is a body of blind persons working towards the challenging task of bringing the blind of the country out of the present, generally miserable state of ostracisation, deprivation and neglect to genuine inclusion, acceptance and development.