Skill Development Training for 120 Slum Youths

Aman (not his real name) belongs to a lower class family having two brothers and two sisters. His father is a carpenter and working in a furniture workshop. With a limited income it is difficult for his father to give proper education to his children. After completing high school Aman left his studies and started to work with his father in the furniture showroom. But he was not satisfied with the carpentery job. He always wants to do something else, like technical work. When he heard about the mobile repairing training provided by the Ruchika Skill Development Centre, he came and query about it and seeing a bright future in mobile repairing training he joined it.

His jeal for learning and doing something good for his family forced him to learned the technical aspects soon. He completed the course successfully within three months. With the help of the support partner Cellcom Mobile Training Institute, he recently has joined at ‘Mobile Care’ as a technical person. Mr. Aman is now earning around 10 thousand bucks as salary plus repairing mobiles at homes and earns handsomely. He is grateful to Ruchika for its skill development training which changed his life.

Sarmila (not her real name) a poor slum women was in a shock when her healthy husband died within two days of illness. Unfortunatly, she was not educated enough to get a grade IV job. She was just studied upto Class-X. After her husband's sudden demise, all the responsibilities of family and children was now on her. For some months she managed it by doing petty works here and there and selling the little jewellery she has. But she was dreaming to do something respectable. When she came to know about Ruchika’s free tailoring training program. she came to our office and joined immediately. Her need and jeal for earning something for her family make it possible for her to complete the training program within six months. She is now stitching all types of dresses and earning around 6000 rupees per month. She has also opened a petty readymade shop in her house and selling children and women's dresses. Now she is able to take care of the family and her children’s education from her earnings. She is very happy!