Skilling underserved Youth for Livelihoods

With the Aim to broaden the horizons and bring IT close to the lives of many more underserved youth, Udayan Care’s ITVT Programme participated in Global Giving Tuesday to double the impact of each penny putt-in by the donors of the Programme.

Following are the updates from the programme

Celebrations and Recreation at the center

• Celebration of completing one year of our Dadri Center ( One of our ITVT Centre in Delhi )

In September 2013, ITVT Center was inaugurated in Dadri with the aims to train 200 women and youth with basic computer knowledge and advanced IT skills at subsidised rates within one year.

• Rangoli competition

Rangoli completion was organised at one of our center (Raman Kant Munjal Foundation) and all students participated and made some fabulous rangoli designs with colours, sand, beads etc.

Activities organised during the reporting period

• Marketing publicity and community mobilization activities organized on regular interval in every centre to popularize the programme and increase the enrolment rate at each center.
• Training session was organized  for the Trainers to enhance their teaching skills on Microsoft excel
• To monitor the performance of each centre Monthly Staff Meetings were organised at every centre.

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.

Achievements during project period:

1)     In 2014-15 (July-Sept), we have successfully enrolled 174 students across the all the centers, out of total enrollments 112 male and 62 females.

2)     The programme has been initial planning to expend in U.P. & Delhi

3)     Reaching out the marginalized community at their door step is another milestone of the programme and the number of beneficiaries is increasing in every session.

4)     Social upliftment & improved living standards.

5)     Increased confidence level among men and women.

6)        Enhanced knowledge on employment opportunities.                                                                                                                

Miracle of Hopes

Success Story of Sanjana Arora (Name Changed)–Badarpur (Delhi))

“I understand the need for being computer literate. So when this opportunity came up, I enrolled to learn new computer skills”— Sanjana Arora (Name Changed)

Twenty one year old Pooja always has a smile on her face, no matter what the circumstances. But beyond her happy-go-lucky attitude there was another reality. Before joining the ITVT programme, Sanjana was not sure if her dreams would come true. The eldest of 4 siblings, she was keen to pursue Charted Accountant as a profession. However, her father, being a Private employee as account assistant in a company at Noida, with limited income, was not able to

Soon she heard about Kishwarna-Udayan Care Information Technology Center through our Community Mobilization team. She joined the DCA (Diploma In computer Application) course at our center, and after completing the course she got her first job through our placement cell after completing the course, she was placed as an Assistant Program Coordinator Trainee in an NGO, by the placement cell at IT&VT Centre, Badarpur. As she says with a smile lighting her face, "Today me & my family are living with pride & my mother was very happy when I got my first salary." Sanjana is now confident that she will pursue her specialised studies carving a bright career for herself.

Udayan Care initiated Computer Literacy Programme 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. Since the uniqueness lies in the fact that it apart from providing Computer Literacy Programme to youth,the programme it helped in capacity building of the trainers to increase their application skills and teaching skills. Following are activities organised to build the capacity of the trainer.

• To expand the knowledge of our trainers a workshop on CSS (Cascade style sheet) was organised. Our in-house resource person Mr. Hari Shankar taught our trainers to use the language for describing the look and formatting of a document written in a markup language.
• To enhance the teaching skills of the trainers, a workshop on effective teaching skills was organised. The workshop was organised by Mr Swayam Mohanty & Mr Bhansakarn. The workshop talked about means of effective teaching and how to make the teaching effective and interesting.

Following are the Donors Visits organised to the center:

• Charities Aid Foundation (one of our donor) visited the center for monitoring the working and functioning of the center.
• UPS foundation (One of our donor) visited our Badarpur centre (one of our 8 centers) and organised activities like extempore, quiz and public speaking to build the confidence among students.

Co-curricular Activities:

• Quiz competition was organised at one of our centers at Sidhrawali.
• Poster making competition on the social theme was organised at one of our centers at located in Dadri.

Achievements during project period:

1)     In 2014-15 (April –June), we have successfully enrolled 328 students across all the centers, out of total enrollments 184 were male and 144 were females.

2)     Tie up with NIELIT (National institute of electronics and information technology). Through the association we have been able upgrade the course curriculum for Computer Literacy

Success Story of Ankur 

Twenty  year old Ankur from East Vinod Nagar (Delhi) living in a rented house with his mother & two sisters, his father is expired in a road accident in year 2006 after this all family responsibilities comes over his shoulders . He had completed his 10+2 through open school with part time job. Ankur was searching for a better job, but without knowledge of computers, he could not succeed in his efforts.

Soon he heard through his friend about Udayan care Computer center, East Vinod Nagar, he decide to take admission in our one year course ADCA (advance Diploma in Computer Application), and we provide him 50% concession in course fee.

After completing his course, he started looking for a job & soon got one as a Billing cum Computer Operator at a monthly salary of Rs.8500/- in KFC Restaurant in Shipra Mall, Delhi.

He is happy to become economically independent plus support his family & complete his graduation.

Links:

• Bringing technology closer to the undeserved Youth