Economic Growth India Project #9638

Skilling underserved Youth for Livelihoods

by Udayan Care

Skilling underserved Youth for Livelihoods

Project Report | Dec 1, 2015
UC IT Programme - Moving Beyond IT Skills

By Manoj Shrivastava | Manager IT Programme

Presentation Skills Workshop

Information Technology report for Global Giving

About Udayan Care

Udayan Care is a Public Charitable Trust, working for the last 21 years, for the quality care of disadvantaged children and women.

Vision: To Regenerate the Rhythm of Life of the Disadvantaged

Theory of Change:“There are millions of orphaned and abandoned children in India; in addition, girls from weaker sections of society do not get an equal opportunity to continue their education; professional skills and attitude are lacking among disadvantaged communities to become economically self reliant”.

Udayan Care provides homes to orphaned children while also giving girls financial and development support to continue higher education, and communities to train themselves in vocations, by engaging socially committed individuals, who provide a transformative, nurturing and mentoring environment, to help them realize their full potential.

Mission:

A nurturing home for every orphaned child, an opportunity for higher education for every girl and for every adult, the dignity of self-reliance and the desire to give back to society.

About ITVT centers

There is a growing demand for Information Technology and vocational training among the poor urban and rural communities including communities around our Udayan homes. We have also found the use of computer and IT vitally important in our counseling programme for the children of Udayan Homes. Thus, the project intends to focus on mixed communities; communities who are located around our Udayan Homes and those in the densely populated clusters of slums, resettlement colonies and other low income settlements by setting up IT & VT centers for imparting Information Technology and vocational skills training.

Program Vision
To broaden horizons and bring IT close to the lives of underserved rural and urban communities in Delhi and NCR, and thus empower them for greater job prospects

Target Group & Reach

Poor urban/ slum communities, especially women, adolescent, children of Delhi and NCR

Unique aspects of the Program

Selection and enrollment of trainees on subsidized fees and free ships
Capacity building of trainers and program staff
Community Mobilization through co-curricular activities
Documentation and periodic program reviews
Trainee assessment procedures and certification
Job placement facilitation
Timely reporting to donors
Partnerships and linkages with other organization

Updates from this Quarter

Inducing Sportsmanship in our IT Students

Udayan Care organised cricket championship to induce the spirit of sportsmanship and team building in our IT Students. The entire group performed tremendously and the match ended with a nail-biting finish between the teams with the Narsinghpur Centre taking home the winner's trophy, given away by the Home Incharge.

Presentation Skills Workshop

The Arrows Group conducted a Presentation Skills Workshop with our IT Centre's students. From improving presentation skills to interview skills and e-mail writing, the workshop taught the Narsinghpur IT Centre trainees to put their most impressive foot forward in a professional setup.

Rediscovering Childhood with UPS

28 of UPS Foundation’s volunteers helped trainees at our Narsinghpur IT centre reconnect with their childhood with a day of games like ‘Dog and Bone’ Tug of War, Kho Kho, Cricket and painting. They only stopped for refreshments and resumed the fun shortly after, giving everybody a taste of the days when there were no cares and absolute freedom was the only thing that mattered.

IT students in inlingua

Inlingua is one of the world's leading language training organizations with 309 language centers in 35 countries across Europe, Africa, Asia, North and South America. 13 IT students from our Badarpur Center got the opportunity from inlingua south ex, branch for learning English Speaking course.

Miracle of Hope

Small dreams is a form of future planning

Abhinav (Name Changed) is a true example of how determination can lead one to achieve one’s dream. Abhinav (Name Changed) was born and brought up in low income family where his father (who works in an Export Company) is the only source of income; many young dreams like Abhinav (Name Changed) do not see the light of the day owing to challenging situations. Today, Abhinav (Name Changed) pursuing his graduation final year by distance education, and simultaneous he joined Community Technical Skills Program (CTSP) in our Sahibabad Center. After completing his course he is now working with Spencer Retail as a Customer Service Executive and is earning decent salary to meet his family expenses.

“Now I am Feeling very excited and happy. At last I am very confident. And really enjoy this job there i am learning new things everyday i am the student of arts but i got the opportunity in retail sector where i learn accounting work also” – Abhinav ( Name Changed)

Inducing Sportsmanship and Team Building

Reliving childhood with UPS

Small dreams is a form of future planning-Abhinav

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Sep 2, 2015
Empowering IT Students for greater job prospects

By Manoj Shrivastava | Manager, Iformation Technology Programme

Placement Cell

In a lieu with the programmes’s objective to empower the underserved youth to have better job opportunities and have greater job prospects, we have planned the below mentioned activities under the ambit of Computer Literacy Programme.

Initiation of placement cell

With a vision to empower the youth to have skilled jobs and better employment opportunities, the organization germinated this seed within the Information Technology Programme. This cell will smoothen the transition of our students into the professional world.

Achievement

We have been able to tied up with 9 employers in Delhi NCR for placing our students from the IT centres. From the very first batch of Placement Cell, we have been able to place more than 60% of students.

Workshops Conducted

Career Counseling Workshop

In one of our centers (Badarpur, a city in Delhi), Udayan Care organized a career counseling workshop with help of our corporate partner, Accenture. The workshop was conducted with aim to widen the knowledge of students regarding the available career opportunities after completing any particular course, for example HTML student can work in digital marketing companies as well as website designing agencies etc.

Poster Making Competition

In one of our centers (Vinod Nagar, a city in Delhi), Udayan Care conducted small poster making competition for students on the themes of Save Water and Digital Literacy. Everybody enjoyed the competition thoroughly and have made the best use of colors to bring out their perspective of saving water and digital literacy on to the drawing sheets.

Miracle of Hopes

Sonia (Name changed) might just be another 19 year old girl but her achievements stand tall and speak volumes about her courage and hard work to change her circumstances. The boundaries of her Kalyan Puri slum became too small as she took a giant leap crossing them to realise her dreams. Undeterred by her father’s death and the inability of her uneducated mother to support Sonia, she nevertheless completed her graduation from Delhi University along with pursuing Udayan Care’s course in typing which ultimately placed her with AMS Comtel in their accounts department.

A stable job and a reasonable monthly income gave her the background to dream even bigger. She has also completed a Stenographic course from the Industrial Training Institute (ITI) and hopes to secure a government job soon. She also has a brother to look after, who is proud of his sister’s achievements and wants to become like her.

Sonia

Painting Competition

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Jun 2, 2015
The multi-layered dimension of Computer Technology

By Manoj Shrivastava | Manager

Sweden Delegation at our IT centre

Adobe youth Voice Program

On 5^thFebruary ‘2015, a project on cyber crime by the students of one of our centres won them accolades at the FICCI auditorium, an association of buisness organizations in India. The recognition came as a reward for the past three months of rigorous training workshops aimed to hone the IT skills of our students. The students were given the basic knowledge of using digital media which included Adobe Premiere Element 11, Adobe photoshop skills. All students under the age group of 19 years were trained under this programme. They chose various social issues for their project work for instance- Importance of Hygiene and Sanitation and poverty.

The objective of the Udayan Care’s ITVT programmes is to improve the lifelong learning for underserved young people and adults, especially women drawn from the poor urban communities by providing technology skills through Udayan Care IT & VT Centres. This is achieved by empowering the poor urban communities to make use of technology to help them improve their limits and individual potential.

The integration of AIF- AYV programme with our existing centre definitely helped us to promote technological literacy in the community and make people realize that it can be utilized in all walks of life to bring about betterment in their life.

We are extremely thankful to the AIF-AYV for giving us the opportunity through this three month programme to empower our youth to become agents of change in their respective communities. The AVY programme indeed became a model for strengthening our existing leadership and communication skills.

Here is the link of our program uploaded on you-tube.

http://youtu.be/ip0S7duN2x8

Sweden Express at our Computer Centre:

In March, 2015, one of our IT centres at Sidhrawali hosted a delegation, comprising of 24 students with three escort teachers from Abt Kungsholmens Gymnasium School, Sweden. It was an amazing experience for our students and the teaching staff as everyone got to interact with the student group. It also became an occasion where our students were exposed to a different culture and its people.

Impact of the Programme activities

There is both direct and indirect impact of the programme. On the tangible lines, the basic and advanced computer courses are adding on to both knowledge and skills of the young students. Interacting with each other, the students become better aware and explore different career opportunities. Thus enhancing the livelihood options available to these students and giving them an advantage in the job market. Spoken English and life skills training are also a part of the curriculum to make students job ready. Looking at it on indirect lines, there is increase in the confidence level of the students who step out of the school academics attending the center and broaden their horizon. The students are ready to compete in the job market and stand equipped to face the career challenges. A sense of dignified independence touches them with the completion of the course. The students of different ages, gender and economic backgrounds make the learning experience more diverse and rich. Year on year the centers produce equipped more aware and optimistic students.

It goes without saying that the IT&VT centers have equipped students across Delhi & NCR with the dignity of self reliance.

Miracle of Hopes

From the narrow bylanes of Mahoba in Uttar Pradesh to the metropolitan city of Delhi, Prashant Singh (name changed) has come a long way. And this journey has changed him in more ways than one. Being the eldest son of agriculture based family, Prashant Singh was expected to shoulder the family responsibilities along with his father. After completing his 12^th, 24 year old Prashant Singh (name changed) was searching for a job, but without any knowledge of computers, he could not succeed in his efforts.

Learning about the Udayan care ITVT center through Udayan Care’s community mobilization team, he got some hope. He joined the DCA course (Diploma in Computer Application) at the Udayan Care IT Centre in Delhi. After completing the course he got his first job in a Private Company as a data entry operator with a salary of Rs.9000/- per month.

More than Prashant Singh his family is very proud of his efforts and truly believes that the computer training and holistic development at the centre has helped transform the life of the whole family.

Our IT students at the FICCI auditorium

Links:

http://youtu.be/ip0S7duN2x8

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