Digital Empowerment Of Poor and Challenged Girls.

Empowering Youths through Skill Development Training

The project target group are disadvantage youths including female , with focus on dalit, and poorest of the  poor household. The project emphasis is on disadvantage youths belonging to dalit, and poor families. These are excluded and landless community with high illiteracy. The average  qualification is 10^th class, but seriously  lacking technical expertise and it resist them to get support staff  jobs. Induction of more sophisticated and modern technology has bounded the recruitment of manpower. Due to which youths are highly engaged in labour work (i.e. in agriculture, brick factory, house construction etc.) but it is not the permanent solution of getting employment and are also exploited by landlord. Youth with 10^th and 12^th class pass are illiterate to computer education, where there is great opportunity of employment at anywhere.

Due to lack of employment they even don’t fulfil the minimum needs of family and it causes acute frustration among youth. Unemployment is a big challenges for the poor community in this area and timely employment is the only solution of the poverty. It affects schedule caste/dalit, backward caste and poor family. In this line when we consider unemployment of youth it is heart-breaking. The situation is becoming grim as no. of unemployed youth especially in deprived family is gradually increasing.

Community will identify the disadvantage youth by participatory approach & organisation survey .

Objectives:

• Employment oriented  Skill training and on going capacity building of poor youths.
• To promote gender friendly skill training and  minimizing  inequality at the society.
• To converge rural poor households  with govt. schemes and programs.
• To promote sustainable livelihood through developing entrepreneurship skill among youth and women .
• To aware and educate the community for initiating convergence with govt. skill program.

Success Story
Ms Shobha Kumari , daughter of Sri Naresh Paswan, Residence-Sonawan, Islampur,  comes from  Ultra poor / BPL (Below Poverty Line ) household. Her age is about 21 years and parents are engaged in labour work of different nature, which also not able to provided long term employment and it is the only source of livelihood and hardly fulfil their minimum needs . Family is landless hence source of income of the family is very restricted .  Shobga is studying in B.A and manage education fees hardly .

Observing the household poverty status, the Organization Sugam Jagriti has selected Shobha Kumari for computer education, and as a potential person. During first contact with the Organization staffs Ms. Shobha Kumari was very nervous and there was no any hope of education in her , in future . She is willing and continuing education but family was not able to support her in further education . She is worry by thinking She might left her education any time.