Digital Livelihoods for 1,000,000 At-risk Youth

Dear Friends and Supporters of Anudip Foundation,

As we begin 2021, millions of vulnerable youth in India are still grappling with everything from the COVID-19 pandemic leading from loss of livelihoods, lack of health care to extreme poverty – all in addition to any unknown hardships that lie ahead. With support from generous donors like you, we provided essentials and livelihoods to income-less families in this crisis. While doing that we engaged our donors to witness themselves the life-changing contributions they are making from around the world through LIVE video calls during distributions. Thanks to Digital!

Hear what our donors experienced: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6t86gytEqA&amp%3Bfeature=youtu.be

Here’s what we have done:

• 60,000+ income-less individuals impacted with dry ration and food
  
  
• 400+ small businesses digitized to e-commerce platforms scaling a 35% increase in their income since physical spaces and shops were non-functional in lockdown
  
  
• 900+ 3D printed face-shields distributed to frontline healthcare givers
  
  
• 20,000+ youth aspirants from needy communities and income-less families trained with a 70% employment success-rate
  

Stories of  livelihoods in crisis:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfqXqF6cfYE&feature=youtu.be

Reality Check
Making matters even worse, the ILO warned that around 1.6 billion workers in the informal economy – that is nearly half of the global workforce – stand in immediate danger of having their livelihoods destroyed. It means so much to know that you’ll be by our side in 2021, helping us create lifelong change for the neediest sections of the society

Here’s what needs to be done:
We are raising funds to up-skill at least one member of an income-less household to acquire a fresh skill and get a job to rebuild livelihoods using financial assistance, skill training, market linkages and by partnering with local businesses, large corporations, and local government. They’re counting on you to helping them build a livelihood today. 

Here’s how we witness the change you are making:

• LIVE Zoom Calls

Update you on their latest development and face-to-face interaction with the beneficiary/beneficiaries you are supporting

• Monthly Impact Reports

Detailing on the trajectory of training, employment, and livelihood creation of the beneficiary you have supported

Your generous support would make this work possible. With your help, we can ensure that 2021 is filled with hope and opportunity for the world’s most vulnerable.

With Gratitude,
Anudip Foundation Family

Dear Friends and Supporters of Anudip Foundation,

Since we last wrote, we've been busy responding to the overwhelming critical needs of communities for whom the threat of starvation loomed largely. As the pandemic took hold here, we started a Covid-19 Response Project to support the most vulnerable. We are grateful for the donations and in-kind support that has allowed us to reach over 55,000+ migrant workers, small hawkers, domestic help, theatre, and live-artists who have lost their livelihoods in this pandemic with dry ration and essential kits which would last for a month.

You will not be surprised to read that “Skilling and Empowering should never be discontinued” - has been our mantra since the outbreak of the COVID-19, which came with stringent restrictions. With this conviction, we evolved a paradigm shift from Physical to Digital mode of training for the marginalized youth aspirants- realizing how important it is for them to come out the other side of this pandemic with job-ready skills. This risk-control decision has led hundreds of our students, who are mostly youth from low-income impoverished backgrounds into temporary ‘home-skilling’. Certainly, these changes have initiated a degree of discomfort, owing to the absence and non-affordability of own smartphones among the needy youth which has been one of the major handicaps to adapt the online mode of skill training.

However, Anudip, with its vision to create digital livelihoods, and its eagerness to build a shared world where everyone has equal access to technology has initiated its Old for you, New For Some Campaign, appealing all to donate their old workable smart-phones, laptops, and tabs—to make it possible for someone from a less privileged background to learn through the device.  For students who are facing high-speed internet bandwidth, we are paying for their data and internet connectivity to enable them to attend the classes.

So far, 200+ batches are conducted across 16 Indian States and multi-sector work-from-opportunities has been generated for the needy students, since our decision to transform from physical to virtual classes. The COVID-crisis also has given us an excellent opportunity to force the entire ecosystem to work online in tandem with quality, while keeping the opportunity-limited youth alive to the vital importance to equip themselves with new-age skills and employment.

Loss of traditional livelihoods has been the most paralyzing aspect of the pandemic so an imperative need for creating an alternative livelihood for the income-less population using financial assistance, new skills training, and market linkages is our key agenda.  We look forward to your continued support in enabling us to stand with the neediest sections of the society in this global crisis.

With Gratitude,
Anudip Family
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