Setu - Women Empowerment Program

Dear Friends,

With immense pleasure I want to share that Setu has entered Rajasthan. A new skill centre at Jaipur has been launched on 27th September 2017. Mr Manu Gautam Site Head Metlife Gosc, Mahindra SEZ, Jaipur inaugurated the Setu Multi Skill Centr along with Pankaj Badola, Neetu Kumari, Anurag Jhoda. Also present on the occasion was Setu team comprising of Chief trustee Ravi Kaul, Jyotsna Srivastava, Program Director Geet Anjali, Vocational Skill Head, Malvika Achwaan Centre Head Metlife Centre Noida along with Dimple Vohra, Nashreena Ali, Ankita Rawat, Renu Verma, Mukesh Jha, Aditi Sharma Centre Head Jaipur, Aditya and Neetu.

Another milestone during this quarter was a tie up with Pear Academy. Setu and Pearl Academy have jointly launched a course to empower un-served women with Basic Fashion Design Skills so as to create Employability/Self-Employment at an event in Noida. Mr. Sanjay Lal, Additional Commissioner Income Tax was the Chief Guest at the event, also present were the senior management team members from Pearl academy and Setu along with distinguished Guest, Students of Setu and Pearl Academy.

During the Quarter 488 students were certified across all our Centres at various convocations and the break-up is as follows: 242 IT and Tally, 9 in Health Care, 18 in Hospitality, 27 in Beauty and Wellness and 192 in Tailoring.

Thanks to all our supporters and well-wishers in helping us build Setu.

Convocation and Certification

During this quarter 488 Students were certified at different convocation ceremonies

Volunteers at Skill centre

A series of guest lectures by our volunteers being conducted across all Skill centres. We are thankful to all the employees from Cognizant, Metlife and Pricewaterhouse Coopers who have given their valuable time in improving the knowledge of the beneficiaries.

Exposure visit of Skill student
Students from retail management course visited Hypercity, Logix Mall where Mr. Jaggi, Marketing Team Member, Hypercity interacted with the students and provided inputs on various kinds of displays, store organisation as well as about rules & regulations for employees. He also described “How a retail outlet work and different ways of arranging items in shelfs”.
Success stories

Self Help group
Students are engaged in income generating activity. Earlier they had produced rakhi, floating diya, magnets, charan painting. Now in this quarter they have created fridge magnets, paper bags, Gel diya. These products will be sold at Diwali stalls. After selling of these products students will be paid according to their contribution in creating these items.

Individuals whose change their lives

Sulbha is 12th pass and currently pursuing graduation. She always wanted to become independent and help her family for betterment. So, she wanted to do a job and earn for being independent as well as for improvement of her family’s condition. But she wasn’t available to find a job after completing 12th. Then, she came to know about the SteP Program and its benefits for the underprivileged youths through our mobilization. She enrolled herself for smile course to fulfill her basic requirements of skills which is important for finding a good job. After successful completion of this course she grab job of Teacher at Morning Star public School with salary of Rs 6000 per month.
Her father is doing job at a private company. Her family’s annual income is Rs. 100,000/- which is insufficient to fulfill the basic need of a family of 6 members. It was hard for her father to take care of her family and also giving her money for higher education. Her mother is a homemaker and father is the only bread earner. She wants to support her father. So she joined this course.
Initially she was very weak girl but always try to learn new things to improve her skills. After joining this course she learned to type with speed of 20 wpm. In addition she also got knowledge of personality development which helps her to improve her personality.