Skilling underserved Youth for Livelihoods

Udayan Care Information Technology Programme report for Global Giving

About Udayan Care

Udayan Care is a Public Charitable Trust, working for the last 24 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

Industry Experts Visit

In Udayan Care Information Technology Programme we ensure to give exposure to the youth who pursue IT training from our centres. To keep in mind, the same we invited Lopez Design Studio team to our centre for mentoring our graphic designing students.

Lopez Design is a multidisciplinary branding and communication firm, engaged with long-term strategic interventions. 6 employees who have several years of experience in the field of designing visited our North Delhi IT Centre, which is supported by SVP. During their visit they interacted with passed out alumni and existing students of Graphic designing.  In the interim of their interaction they asked few questions related to the curriculum and the methodology which they have learnt during the training. Simultaneous they advised the students as to how they can polish their graphic work and make it more effective to get a job in the field of designing on behalf of the same.

Capacity building training of staff - Tally pro

In Udayan Care Computer Learning Centres we are running job specific computer courses which help the youth to get job in varied growing sectors. We are committed to provide advance training in every course as per market trend, currently operational team of Udayan Care IT Centre is focusing to develop accounts theory with latest software training curriculum in Tally ERP 9 because we are in the process to make our IT centre a Tally authorized centre for training of underserved community youth in accounting software which is Tally ERP 9 (latest).

On 13th Feb 2018 Tally education team member Mr. Bijay , a ten year experienced person in trainings & curriculum development, organized full day training for our faculties who are responsible to teach accounting software in Udayan Care IT centres. During the training Bijay explained our faculties, how they have to train the trainees in using the professional version of Tally ERP 9 in accordance to Tally pro curriculum. Our trainers have cleared doubts related to GST and few technical doubts per as, related to Tally software.

Success story – Shubham (Student – DIT)

I know, I am a person who is reserve in nature, reason being I am not comfortable to easily interact and mingle with anyone. No sooner I completed my intermediate I thought of taking up a job, because of my family’s economic condition. ~Shubham

Shubham comes from a middle class family who is living with his parents and siblings at Uttam Nagar, Delhi. After completing his schooling from state government school, he started pursuing his graduation from Delhi University's through distance learning program. His father is working in an export company and mother is a homemaker. Both have always tried to give their best and provided good education to their children but due to financial crisis sometime they lacked to fulfill the requirements of their children. The same was faced by Shubham when he started pursuing graduation through distance learning.  Later he started looking for a platform where he can groom himself in specific skills training, but he couldn't associate with any commercial institute due to financial problem. One of his friend connected him with KaushalKalp - Udayan Care Vocational Training Centre where he started learning Diploma in Information Technology (DIT), during the training he was found to be one of serious students in practical classes as well as English Communication.

Shubham - Today

After completion of course Shubham has started working with an esteemed organization, as a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) fetching a five-digit salary.