PANDA SOFTWARE INTERNATIONAL, SPAIN PRESENTS THE MOST PRESTIGIOUS AWARD ‘INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY INITIATIVE PANDA IT AID, 2006  TO GOODWILL SOCIAL WORK CENTRE, MADURAI, INDIA Goodwill social work centre, an Indian NGO based at Madurai,India has been declared as one of  four  the winners of “Panda IT Aid”, Panda Software International, Spain(www.pandasoftware.com). The other organisations are Save the Children (with a pan-European project),Spain,  Fundación Braille (Uruguay) and Paideia (Paraguay). These four winning projects were selected from 15 finalists through a vote held among all the employees of the Panda Group across 56 countries. In a previous phase, the selection committee had selected the fifteen finalist initiatives from the more than 130 projects presented in this first edition of Panda IT Aid. GOODWILL will receive a cash award and  Panda Software solutions for the Community Technology centres to be  created  in Madurai,IndiaThe award is given to GOODWILL for setting up Community Technology Centres for children and young women in low and middle income families in and around Madurai, India. The aim of the project is to create Community Technology centres in Madurai, India, to teach women and children in low to middle income families about new information technologies. It aims to train young women and children, so that they can be incorporated in the labor market in local organizations or even set up new businesses and computer centres.  Around 900 children and young women will benefit from the project within a span of THREE years.BECOME A PARTNER OF THIS INNOVATIVE PROJECTThe Centre seeks computer donations and grant help from potential funders for setting up creating Community Technology Centres for the poor children and women in our project areas. We invite you to be a project partner of the Goodwill Social Work Centre and seek your valuable financial assistance and computers for establishing Community Technology Centres for the children and women in villages and backward areas in Madurai, India. . Your funds will be utilized for basic infrastructure requirements such as computer systems and accessories, internet connection, furniture, rent, electricity, books and computer learning materials, salary to staff etc. We invite you to join us in this innovative project and partner with us. You take a few moments to visit our website at  http://mfcs.malianfoundation.org/goodwill/Contact person: Prof.Dr.J.Christopher Daniel, M.A., Ph.D (social work)Honorary Executive DirectorGoodwill Social Work CentreNo: 5,South street ExtensionSingarayar colonyMADURAI-625002INDIAEmail: chriskan@satyam.net.in