Skilling underserved Youth for Livelihoods

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)