Skilling underserved Youth for Livelihoods

About Udayan Care

Udayan Care is a Public Charitable Trust, working for the last 23 years, for the quality care of disadvantaged children, women and youth.

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 ITSD centers

There is a growing demand for Information Technology and Skill Development 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 programmes 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 & SD centers for imparting Information Technology and skill development 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, adolescents, 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

"Crazy Craft workshop"

Udayan Care focuses on providing a creative environment to our IT students. From time to time, we have conducted creative and meaningful workshops for students making them more aware and ardent towards this field.Udayan care youth leadership centre students tried to explore creative concepts to create illustrations & graphics using designing software. On the occasion of Republic day, Udayan Care project team tried to motivate the students towards working on handmade creative invention. The students made the model with the use of match sticks & decorated a corner using handmade sheets, pastel sheets, glitter sheets etc. The decorations that they did were beautiful. After seeing their work at the initial stage, it seems that their work really deserves appreciation.

Exposure Visit - IITF

An exposure visit was organized to give the students an insight into the actual activities which are carried out at an industry. It helped the students to understand the industrial atmosphere. In the month of Nov 2016, UD-UC IT Centre faculties and 38 students visited India International Trade Fair (IITF). ITPO (India Trade Promotion Organization) decided "Digital India" as the theme this year for IITF. As there is always room for learning and knowing more, our IT centre students learnt about how they can make their life digital and make better use of technology. 

Story of change

Wasim(name changed) is from Puranpur, a small village in Bareli, Uttar Pradesh. His father works as a cycle mechanic which speaks a lot about the financial condition of his family. He has always performed well in studies and was in the good books of his teachers as well. He also received an award in English when he was in school.

Since his childhood, he has been interested in Computers and has also taught Basics of Computers to students at his uncle’s computer centre. He is a relative of one of our students who got him introduced to Udayan Care. He feels that this course would lead to value addition for him. He strongly believes that it’s not just learning that matters, but also, how one implements that learning. Udayan Care has added wings to his dreams and this is what makes us proud.

Wasim was selected as a trainee – graphic designing during the first round. His employer appreciated his honesty and dedication towards his work. Wasim has started working with Think Market (in Greater Kailash) as graphic designing-trainee where he would get the opportunity to hone his creative and graphic skills.

We wish him lots of luck for his bright future.