STEP towards Employability

The unprecedented crisis due to COVID-19 pandemic has impacted risks to the nutritional status and survival of young children in low-income in the rural and urban slum communities of India. Studies have depicted concern in an expected increase in child malnutrition due to no or decline household incomes, availability and affordability of daily food intake. loss of jobs , financial crisis , After the pandemic . the huge set of people are unable sustain their livelihood as there are lacking in skills, digital literacy, many of small scale factories and companies get shut of due to that surviaval is an issue . whatever saving they have gone in to the treatment of family member who had COVID , also to lock down paying house rent and other household chores they are now NIL ( economically Nil )  

Over the past few  months of lockdown STEP FOUNDATION  team has conducted baseline survey to understand the issues faced by community members. Few of the issues which have emerged during our visits are as follows –

Lack of resources

Lack of training and empowerment within the community

No financial support to start a new entrepreneur.

Personality development  , grooming and digital divide  is the skills they were needed . 

As part of intervention strategy implementation post Covid, STEP Foundation has identified

500 families to work with , approximately 50 children/ women  from each community will be identified and selected based on the severity of crisis faced by them in terms of

·        Access to daily meal and regular availability of food items,

·         families with pregnant and lactating mothers and

·         families with children under 10 and

·        Families with no income source.

 A total of 150 beneficiaries will be part of the program. The intervention program aims towards effective personality building, skill building , grooming and empowering towards the employability

50 beneficiary will be learning digital literacy , skill building and perusing internship in various corporates houses for building their own portfolio

50 women from the family will get training and small scale business opportunity .

50 children will learn basic English , basic computers and grooming and communication skill sessions etc . 

In 2020, STEP FOUNDATION aimed to help and sustain COVID impacted families . Our main focus on training empowering people for their own sustainability. As  COVID affected badly peoples have lost their jobs, education was online due to that children & youth have lost their important years of the studies . so many women who become widows have lost sustainable family Income It happened due to lack of knowledge , skills , awareness and learning about the financial stability . STEP Foundation  began its intervention with 500 families in Mumbai slum pockets. . While interacting with the parents and children we understood that these parents also care about the future of their children but lack the resources and opportunities to help their child grow. STEP FOUNDATION works with parents who are illiterate or semi-literate migrant workers, daily wage workers, street hawkers, etc.

The families needed to upgrade their skills for developing good financial stability  STEP Foundation  took the challenge of changing the mind-set of parents through continuous intervention with training and empowerment module .

So far STEP Foundation has impacted around 500 families across different slum pockets in 3 Municipal wards in Mumbai..

Our aim in the near future is to spread its wings and widen its horizon to provide helping hands to more and more youths, women , Adolescent girls  to upgrade their skills and works towards employability .