PMI Educational Foundation (PMIEF) is a philanthropic arm of PMI, with a mission to inspire and empower people to realize their potential and transform their lives and communities by leveraging their knowledge of project management.

PMIEF along with PMI Chennai Chapter participated in Udyog Utsav 2018, a careerfocused exhibition and conference for schoolgirls, on 27 January in Chennai. At the event, organized as part of Project Puthri, over 1,000 schoolgirls from over 100 corporation and government schools across Chennai learned about various courses and careers that they can choose from.

The chapter set up a stall and conducted awareness sessions on PMI’s Project Management Skills for Life®. Around 200 school students, a few college students, and 12 teachers also learned about PMIEF.

Project Puthri is a social initiative to make girls studying in secondary and higher secondary grades in corporation and government schools career-conscious. Its mission is to make 10,000 girls studying in corporation schools across Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry ‘career intentional’ every year, facilitate their entry into tertiary education, and help them pursue a white-collar career upon graduation.