Computer Skills for Youth in Rural, Slum Areas

 Dear Donor, 

Greeting. With help of your donations and support we were able to provide computer training for  210 (Children and Youth). Our choosen areas were 1) Tribal (Jungel areas , Kumta and Dandeli) 2) Draught prone areas which are economicaly back word. Major Challege faced by us was lack of proper power supply to utilse lab to fullest capacity. Courses which were planned for 3 months took 4 months complete and Lab availablity during day time was around 4 hrs. Due which we had put lot of children and Youth on waiting list. We are looking for donors to help us solve power problem by going solar at estimate cost of 5000 USD.

 What we observed is confidence level of child goes very high when they get chance to play with computer. Large number of semi urban and rural youth who have taken up college education and  can not offord computer education and are getting left behind in job market. Our labs have helped these youths to gain confidence and skills to make them employable.

We will focusing on local indutry computer skill  needs and would be tailoring our course to suit local industry. We also plan to partner with placement agency to help place youth. Delightful news is 3 youth from our centers got decent jobs. Number may look very small but keeping in mind communities where our work is, we feel proud. 

We have started new academic year with new  children enrollment accross 4 centers. Enthusiasm is great and we hope to over come some of the problems we have faced last year.

I am also attaching annual report for your review.

With Kind regards.

Cheers

Mahesh

• Annual report (DOCX)