Setu - Women Empowerment Program

Dear Reader

New Year started with festive celebrations bringing joy and happiness all around. This year our first batch at School has appeared for class 12th board examination. A lots of activities were conducted during this quarter. Hope you will enjoy reading our student’s achievements.

Project Saksham

During this quarter 176 Students were certified in IT, 34 in Healthcare, 158 in Sewing, 8 in textile, 11 in English & 14 in Tally were certified at different convocation ceremonies. Certificates were awarded to Students who completed their vocational courses In Basic IT, Tally and Tailoring Courses by Mrigaya and Yasir from Fidelity International also present were Trustees and staff of Setu.

Saraswati Puja was held across all learning centres (School and Skill) of Setu in Noida, Ghaziabad and Jaipur to invoke a sense of knowledge, music, art, wisdom among the students of SETU. At our Sadarpur Colony Centre books were distributed to students and at our Nithari Centre a new batch of sewing was launched to mark the occasion.

Activities at Skill centre for differently abled people

New Year celebrations - New Year Gifts for the Students of Setu Centre for People with Special needs courtesy employees of @Aristocrat Gurgaon Students created greeting cards for donors.

 Republic Day 2018 - The 69th Republic day was celebrated with fun and fare at Setu. The Theme was " India a Journey from Golden Glory to Globalization". Students of the Setu Centre for People with Disabilities also participated in the event along with Setu school students. For them it’s an opportunity to show case their talent in front of huge audience. This time few students gave speech and younger children performed in group. Sweet and food hampers were distributed to students on the occasion Courtesy Support from employees of Cognizant Outreach and Mentor Graphics

 Cooking classes – These type of activities help them in becoming independent in their daily routine life.

 Holi Milan    Cultural show was presented by the Students of the Setu Centre for People with Special needs on the occasion of Holi. The event was followed by rangoli making and games which were enjoyed by all the students at Setu. Finally sweets were distributed to all students.

 Special learning Trip for our Special Students : Volunteers from Price Waterhouse Coopers organised a trip to the National Rail Museum for the students of the Setu Skill Centre for People with Special needs. A great learning as well as an excursion for the students.

New tie-ups: Team contacted new organisations like Samarthanam and Voice of Slum. Team is regularly visiting CMO office Noida, for gathering more data. With every body’s effort we were able to enroll 183 students in our center. Another team is working on placement of trained students.

 Success stories

Sahil, 24 years old, is differently abled student. Sahil belongs to a family of 4 members which include his parents and one brother. He is the only deaf member of his family. After high school he has done Diploma in ECE and B. Tech in CSE. He is a good Athletic too. SETU has provided him Grooming classes, in which he has got positive spirit .He has grown his skill through innovative learning. He has learnt how to make useful and progressive contribution in the organization to be work. He appeared in job interview at K.B.I. (Krishna Beads Industries) where he got selected for the job in his first attempt. His salary there is 15,000 Rs. per month.

 Mukesh, 28 years old and his wife both are deaf. After 12 Class he has done B.Com from Madurai Kamaraj University and short course of MS Office. He joined Grooming and IT classes in SETU in September 2017. Here, he has improved his computer skill .Got expert level of knowledge of Data Entry. He got selected in a B.P.O. company. Now, he is still working there and is fully satisfied. SETU helped him to overcome his disability and become an independent member of his family.