Enhancing Employability Among the Youth

COVID-19 has set us all back in countless ways. But for the youths in crisis all across the world, it’s done more than just set them back. Unemployment is one of the biggest challenges plaguing the Indian economy, and it has now become essential to hasten efforts to tap the potential of the youth and measure the employability skills efficiently. Support and help to educate and enhance the skills of urban poor youth to help them generate livelihoods for themselves. 

Concern India Foundation works with youth from the less privileged background who due to social or economic reasons has to drop out of regular education. With neither concrete educational background nor any skills, they find it very difficult to find a respectable means of earning livelihood. Through this project Concern is empowering lives by identifying, mobilizing and enrolling target individual for the training, enhancing skills by quality training, enhancing livelihoods by assisting with job placement opportunities in the post-lock down job-market. The Project’s robust 5-tier model of skill development would reduce poverty and improve the economic conditions of urban poor community by generating livelihoods.

Our aim is to reach out to 40-50 youth in the age-group of 18-35 years belonging to economically weaker and urban poor families of Badarpur and its adjoining localities.They will be trained through an extensive 5-tier model- right from beneficiary Identification to Post Placement follow up.

Our goal is to enable them to get employment so, that they are able to contribute towards their family income.

With your help in raising Rs. 6,41,025 we will be able to train 40-50 more young people to be financially independent and employable.

Since 2015 we have extended employability to 70 per cent of the beneficiaries wherein from a zero income they are currently earning an average salary of 11,500/ month. The programme has ensured a high attendance of 85% all through with very low drop-out rate, at 4 per cent. Students has been placed with reputed organizations.

The first step has been taken, but we need your continued support to enable us to continue with our work with the same determination and passion.