Dr Reddy's Foundation, the social arm of pharma major Dr Reddy's Laboratories, has set up its first Livelihood Advancement Business School centre outside India at Hanoi, Vietnam.
LABS aims at providing access to jobs to unemployed youth from weaker backgrounds, the company said in a release on Tuesday.
"We are very excited about the first international LABS training centre. It is a significant milestone in our efforts to reach and empower unemployed youth across the world," Nalini Gangadharan of the Foundation said.
About 12,500 youth have been trained and employed so far under LABS which operates in 14 centres including Delhi, Bangalore and Mumbai, besides various towns across Andhra Pradesh, it said.
