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Established in 1960, ORT India has provided vocational training to the local community from its Mumbai base, serving people from pre-school to adulthood, from a range of backgrounds. ORT India has maintained the standard of excellence set by it’s international parent-body, in keeping with it’s motto “Educating for Life”. Over the years, it has grown in size as well as scope, of late concentrating on training up a work force fit for 21st century.

1960

Since its inception in 1960, ORT India has been carrying out sterling work amongst the local communities in Mumbai and elsewhere in the country.
1990

ORT today provides skills-training and self-help projects for some of the world’s most impoverished communities, using funds raised by its supporters, and added to by development agencies and national governments, to put people on the path to economic independence.
2000

ORT has consultative status for information and education purposes with UNESCO, and observer status at the ILO (International Labor Organization). ORT is a founding member of ICVA (International Council of Voluntary Agencies) ORT finally returned to Russia, the country of its birth, in 1991 after an enforced absence of 53 years. Today, the ORT network in the Newly Independent States (the NIS) is considered by local authorities to include the finest establishments available in the region. The ORT Technology School in Moscow inaugurated in 1995 was quickly followed by other schools and centres in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Odessa, Ekaterinburg, Samara, Kazan, Kiev and Dnepropetrovsk.
2001

focused training to enable them undertake worthwhile and fulfilling careers. Concessions and scholarships are granted to children, who come from families of limited means.
2020

ORT is proud of its long history and we have archived many documents and photos.The World ORT Archive (WOA) was established in London in 1999. It exists to preserve the historical record of ORT’s activities and to place these activities into the context of contemporary Jewish history.