SKILL TRAINING FOR LIVELIHOOD

1.      Key Issue- Livelihood training / capacity building with the aim to make people empowered and employable.

2.      Key Objectives of the Project:

• To empower youth & women through skill training and to help them in getting jobs or start their own ventures
• To identify and work alongside the economically and socially deprived youth and women so that they become educated, skilled and aware.
• Enable them to be self-reliant and enjoy a healthy, dignified and sustainable quality of life.

3.      Description of project area / Background and purposes/Why is it necessary to address the issue - The slums of Mumbai have the lowest Human Index parameters amongst all areas of Mumbai. Due to chronic poverty, there is a widespread malnutrition and health and hygiene issue. The area also has a lot of unemployment, very few quality educational and vocational institutes which leave the youth with not much scope to move out of hunger and malnutrition. Similarly the women do not have much scope of empowerment due to lack of any support from any government and non - government bodies. The majority of the population is from backward areas and minority communities. They are generally not very literate or they are school dropouts.

The aim is to make individuals skilled so that they are employable and hence financially independent. All are given compulsory spoken English to be able to get them to be more employable in this fast changing city.

They are given Life-skill training too. Each course is of a 3month duration followed by a short Entrepreneurship workshop wherein they are taught how to market their skills. An examination is conducted at the end, after which they receive a certificate of completion. Some of the courses are -

• Apparel making 
• Beauty and Wellness training
• Mobile repair training program.
• ITES courses (IT enabled services) :- 

·         Advance courses (Tally, DTP, Photoshop, Excel,)

·         MSCIT

·         Klic Courses

·         NIT Courses

·         WEB Designing

·         Graphics Designing

The aim is to make individuals skilled so that they are employable and hence financially independent. All are given compulsory spoken English to be able to get them to be more employable in this fast changing city.

They are given Life-skill training too. Each course is of a 3month duration followed by a short Entrepreneurship workshop wherein they are taught how to market their skills. An examination is conducted at the end, after which they receive a certificate of completion. Some of the courses are -

• Apparel making 
• Beauty and Wellness training
• Mobile repair training program.
• ITES courses (IT enabled services) :- 

·         Advance courses (Tally, DTP, Photoshop, Excel,)

·         MSCIT

·         Klic Courses

·         NIT Courses

·         WEB Designing

·         Graphics Designing

Brief Implementation Plan: 

• Identify needy women and youth – by visiting slums / schools / Mandals/ Gardens and Welfare Organizations and educating and informing the community.
• The message is often communicated through skit and drama and street play.
• Pamphlets are distributed and banners are put up.
• Meetings are held with School Principals and other stakeholders
• Post training our placement coordinator guides them for interviews and placement

• 1800-200 youth and women who are disadvantaged will be skill trained and empowered to earn a livelihood annually.
• Hence they will be financially independent and contributors to home and society.
• They get increased social acceptance as a result.
• The results in the previous years suggest that the vocational training programme improved the livelihood of the youth and women who underwent vocational training which helped them sustain through self employment/ Jobs, which in turn improved their standard of living. 
• Vocational training is often seen as an important step which will lead to employability skills and empowerment of the disadvantaged youth and women.
• Almost 30-40% get employment either through jobs or start their own work from home.
• For Tailoring we have our own OJT Centre which provides work for our pass outs. Many of the beneficiaries have been employed by us too.
• Many of the beneficiaries chose to do advanced courses after doing basic courses. This generally indicates that they are really serious about taking the course as a vocation. Such beneficiaries are carefully monitored by us and the promising ones are nurtured and helped to take up higher education, further professional training and nominated to special workshops.