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 23 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

Goal setting workshop in Bhangel center

Extra co-curricular activities is part of the curriculum in Udayan Care Information Technology Program, extra co-curricular activities help today's generation for developing ability to fulfill the commitments, In our Bhangel (Noida) center youth are coming from different locations and villages they have enthusiasm to do something  in professional manner, they are enjoying when they are working on computer, they took admission with purpose to do job in reputed companies and want to earn a profound designation, to make their dream come true Udayan Care IT project team intensely focused to train these youth in Information Technology, In the month of May 2017 we have conducted Goal setting workshop in our Bhangel center 45 youth participated in this activity, first session was structured to make interaction with students to brief them about the activities and why Goal Setting is important for them, Like goal setting gives students long-term vision and short-term motivation, after the interaction students got the questionnaire which had 20 question based on  self-awareness, these question help to students to know about their own self, as per their existing knowledge and level they have quoted their career goal and quoted the reasons. It was a wonderful and interactive session; students really enjoyed the activity and gave their positive feedback.

Alumni Meet

In Udayan Care Information Technology program we are intensely focus to track success rate of our program, as per our study alumni relations is essential for our IT center’s advancement, we have start Alumni forum to engage alumni with our centers, we are conducting these activities for many reasons, like Alumni are an institution's most loyal supporters and Alumni are often in the position to engage the expertise of the institution in their professional lives, and one major thing is that alumni can  motivate existing students for their career growth. On 7th May 2017 In our Vinod Nagar Information Technology Centre we had conducted an Alumni meet, First batch (Dec 2015- June 2016) of Graphic & Print Design students participated in this meet, main objective of this alumni meet was to interact with alumni how they are growing in the relevant sector, after completion of the course from Udayan Care IT center, within a year are they growing or not? And second objective was to know if our training curriculum is good or not as per market trend? If not how we can upgrade our existing curriculum? Three hour structured alumni meet became fruitful for us, now our course alumni’s are working with reputed companies and they have become experts in designing software and took responsibility to share their expertise with exiting students.

World environment day celebration

World environment day is a campaign established to bring some positive environment changes all over the world to make life better and more natural. On 5th June 2017 our Badarpur IT center team conducted a tree plantation activity on this occasion to celebrate world environment day. As we know Environmental issues are big issues now a days to which everyone must be aware and give their positive efforts to solve such issue.

During the 4 hours structured workshop, students has done such a wonderful job, 60 students allocated themselves in teams, and they decided to plant trees in center building premises, few students brought the plants, few students brought pots, and few arranged the soil, two team made handmade pots. All teams decorated their plants beautifully and quoted a message which is to spread awareness at the same time to make clean and green environment.

Story of change

Arman – Student (CTSP)

Arman whose roots are from Uttar Pradesh. He is a deep thinker who wishes to achieve the best. He is part of a lower middle class family where his father is working in a factory as a supervisor, his salary is not good enough, in such a situation it’s extremely challenging to meet the daily expenses. Arman was grown up at Lakadpur (Badarpur, South Delhi) and has completed his schooling from a Government school. After completion of his intermediate he started pursuing his graduation through distance learning program, and simultaneous he has decided to learn professional course to prepare himself for job. Arman observes how his father faced difficulty to raise his family, due to financial crisis his family has faced hardship in many ways, that’s why with the help of a professional course he wants to associate himself in job as soon as possible. Arman learnt CTSP (Community Technical Skills Training) course from United Decoratives-Udayan Care Information Technology Centre, during his training he was found one of the most serious and keen learning student, after completion of the course Arman got a chance to associate with MSD Fabric Pvt Ltd, where he has started to learn about e-commerce. This job helps him to be a helping hand for his family at the same time manages his house hold expenses.