Digital Empowerment Of Poor and Challenged Girls.

Empowering Youths through Skill Development Training

The project primary focus group are  disadvantage and poorest of the poor youth, with special emphasis on  female , also prioritized  dalit, and poorest of the  poor household. The project emphasis is on disadvantage youths belonging to dalit, and poor families. The target group are socially and economically excluded and landless community and literacy level is very low . The average  qualification of the target groups are 10^th class. Further they are  seriously  lacking technical expertise and it restrict them to get engaged in  jobs. Induction of more sophisticated and modern technology has bounded the recruitment of manpower. It compel them to engaged themselves 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. Here they live hand to mouth life . Youth with 10^th and 12^th class pass are illiterate to computer education, where there is great opportunity of employment at anywhere.

They are not able to fulfil the minimum emergency needs of family and it causes acute frustration among youth. Unemployment is a big challenges for the poor community in this area and timely long term employment is the only solution of the poverty. It affects the target groups i.e. disadvantaged and poorest of the poor 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.

The process adopted is identification of the disadvantage youth by participatory approach & organisation survey with close involvement of the community.

Objectives:

•  Skill training and on going capacity building to poor youths in employment oriented trade.
• To adopt gender sensitivity in skill training and  minimizing  inequality at the society.
• To converge target rural poorest of the poor  households  with govt. entitlement schemes and programs.
• To promote sustainable livelihood through developing entrepreneurship skill among youth and women .
• Community training and orientation  for initiating convergence with govt. skill program.

Success Story
Ms. Ranjana Kumari  (Name Changed) , daughter of Satyendra Prasad , resident of Makhdumpur Village ,  Islampur, Nalanda , belongs to Ultra poor / BPL (Below Poverty Line ) household. She is 21 years old and don’t get educate support in education due to deep rooted poverty of family . Parents are engaged in  unorganized labour work of different nature. They don’t get regular employment and hence not able to fulfil the family emergency need . They don’t have land and due to landless they don’t have alternative for generating income and employment . In such circumstances she doesn’t get required environment and support for study. She is studying in B.A and manage education fees hardly .

The Organization, Sugam Jagriti,  staffs made repeated interaction with her understood her serious problem and finally selected for Job Oriented computer education. The Organization observed her as high potential person. During first contact with the Organization staffs She-  was very nervous and there was no any hope of education in her , in future . But after getting support of the Organization , she successfully completed the computer education course and with the support of the Organization she get jobs at KYP Centre, Islampur. Now she is making income with jobs and also supporting the family . It is helping the family in fulfilling the minimum needs .