Skilling underserved Youth for Livelihoods

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My name is Nandan, I reside at Navjivan Camp which is considered to be a slum community at Govind Puri, Delhi. And I got connected with Udayan Care IT Centre through one of my friends and with the constant support from Udayan Care IT Centre, Govind Puri, I have successfully completed the Tally PRO course. After completing my schooling, I decided to pursue my graduation in commerce stream from Delhi University through the distance learning programme due to my family’s economic condition whereas my father is the sole breadwinner of the family who works as a helper in a factory in order to meet family’s needs and expectations.

Due to COVID-19, my father lost his job and thus there was no income at home and the situation got worse during this pandemic. Despite the lockdown & pandemic, the Udayan Care IT team continued their work towards us and supported us in whatever ways they could. I was blessed and happy to be a part of Udayan Care IT team, as this pandemic did not stop my trainer to train me virtually and complete my course on time, post completion of my course I got an opportunity through Udayan Care placement cell to appear for an interview in a Chartered Accountant firm for an internship and I got selected at “ND Kapoor & Co” as an Account-Intern where I would receive a stipend too.

Though I have got the placement, still I am being trained to build my capacity, acquire professional etiquette, and develop my personality. During my computer, I have spoken on hobbies where I enjoy drawing sketches and even I have participated in many activities which were held at our IT centre (before COVID). During one of our training session, I was informed by my trainer about the “Hero Ki Diwali” an event which is going to be organized by Hero MotoCorp, I found this activity quite interesting and thus gave it a thought of participating in it.

Hero MotoCorp (HMCL) has been in association with Udayan Care since 2007, in 2017 our Govind Puri computer learning centre was established to train underserved community youth in job-specific IT courses and provide digital literacy training to school going students. As we all are struggling to overcome the situations due to COVID 19 and taking safe precautionary measures to keep ourselves safe. To make a positive and happy environment on the occasion of Diwali Hero MotoCorp took a wonderful initiative through a striking event called “Hero Ki Diwali” which was an online talent show for underprivileged children under the Hero Umbrella. The show invites the budding talent of children (9 to 18 years) and provides them a platform to showcase their talent and get exposure to the corporate.

They conducted 4 competitions categories such as Music/Dance/Acting or Poetry Recitation/Drawing or painting. Each competition category was based on a theme like for painting and drawing the theme was “Environment conservation” for other performing arts the theme was “Local heritage and cultural promotion”. The whole event was completely organized virtually and team Hero created a platform where students had to upload their paintings, dance videos, music audios & videos for participation. In total there were 69 participants from 8 NGOs partners of Hero MotoCorp who participated in Hero Ki Diwali, and 4 students participated from Udayan Care IT Centre. I had participated in a Drawing competition as per my interest where I made a poster showing save the environment, two students Santosh and Kajal also participated in Drawing category but one of my batchmate Ragini beautifully dressed up at her home and performed on a folk song (lokgeet), her sister helped to shoot her performance through mobile, our centre staff helped us to upload our video on the portal. 

Dated 12^th Nov Hero Ki Diwali invited all the participants on a single platform where Vijay Sir from HMCL interacted with all the participants and motivated us for taking up meaningful activities in our lives and to stay happy. We were all nominated for some prize. Overall the event was beautifully structured to celebrate Diwali, following proper distancing and stay free from crackers, to save our environment.  I have been associated with many activities during my training in Udayan Care IT Centre, and I always ensure my presence in every industry expert session, workshop, co-curricular activities which were conducted to ensure our holistic development. Recently I came to know Udayan Care collaborated with NIIT Foundation to conduct a “Financial Literacy” workshop which is of two hours structured session to cover multiple topics related to insurance, benefits of savings, etc. On 19^th Nov’20, Suryakant Sir from NIIT Foundation organized a virtual workshop session, with around 80 trainees who participated from four centres, namely West Vinod Nagar, West Delhi, South Delhi, and Noida. Suryakant Sir started the session with a small brief about the topics that he would cover during the session, the workshop started with a video which was exquisitely made using animated characters called Ginni and Vijay, who explained about the income and expenditure. It was about the importance of income, expense, and particularly savings. The participants were acquainted with the financial diary in which one can maintain the details of the expense so that unnecessary expenses can be avoided. The difference between the need and want was also discussed to understand the analysis of the expense and the importance of Savings, backed up with the fact that how and why there is utmost need to save. In the next section, participants were introduced about the various insurance like life insurance and general insurance, under the head of general insurance category and other types of insurance like car, shops, house, and ornaments are included and the importance of Mediclaim insurance was cleared too. We all were made aware of where the claimants can complain if the insurance money is not released at the time of need. The workshop ended with the Q&A session where the participants cleared their doubts; altogether it was very interactive and beneficial for the participants as they gained knowledge about diverse finances like income, expense, savings, Insurance, investments, and the Govt policies in a diminutive span of two hours.

About Udayan Care

Udayan Care is a Public Charitable Trust, working for the last 26 years, for the quality care of disadvantaged children and women.

About IT centers programme

Udayan care Information Technology centre tends to brings digital media closer to the underserved society of the people to improve their livelihoods. Currently, we are running 15 IT centers in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, and Haryana and have impacted the lives of more than 17,488 beneficiaries.

Our centers offer certificate courses in basic computer knowledge, diploma and advanced courses in computer application. Workshops on Spoken English, life skills training and job readiness are also a part of the curriculum.