Youth Welfare center for Food, Skills & Career IND

We are very delighted to report the successful progress of the initiative taken by ISKCON Prayagraj to establish a Youth Welfare Centre at Varanasi to expand its mission of supporting academic education, skill development & healthy food to needy students at Varanasi, India. Equipped with all modern amenities, the center will cater to the children of poor laborers in the local region.

Young Indians today are grappling with anxiety, loneliness, depression & unhealthy habits. Over the last five years, more than 40,000 students committed suicide in India. Lack of value education and over-emphasis by our society on external success are two main reasons for depression among students. Youths need proper career counseling, a healthy lifestyle, and most importantly - character education.

To facilitate this we have organized many online seminars and counseling sessions over last year to help the students.

350 students have been provided counseling for JEE Main / Advanced. 450 students attended the online seminar "Benefits of Living a Healthy Lifestyle" last year.

This quarter We conducted a 45 days "Industry Oriented Training Bootcamp" for students to secure a bright career in cutting edge technologies. This provided them good hands on tech stacks along with many interpersonal skills. This Bootcamp was attended by 65 students in month of Janurary. We had rented a hotel and seminar hall to accommodate students and provide for proper foodings.

We are very thankful to our donors, experts from different fields to join us, and volunteers who helped us to reach out and help more and more youths to shape their life and career.