Skilling underserved Youth for Livelihoods

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