Training the plumbers of the future

 Ashirvad’s plumbing schools are helping tackle two burning issues for India – skills shortages, particularly in the construction industry, and the need to provide fruitful employment for young people. The project, backed by a €1.6 million investment from our corporate social responsibility fund, is in line with our belief that we can’t be truly successful […]

Illegal migrant makes good as a plumber in Nigeria

 Nearly 15 years ago, successful Nigerian businessman Anselm Okoukoni was one of the desperate African migrants prepared to do anything to get to Europe. As the first son of his widowed mother – a farmer – custom demanded that the responsibility for his six siblings would shift to him the minute he graduated from university. […]