Youth Welfare center for Food, Skills & Career IND

We are very delighted to report the successful progress of the initiative taken by ISKCON Varanasi 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 the past years to help the students.

450+ students have been provided counseling for JEE Main / Advanced.

250+ students from different colleges attended the online seminar "Amazing Benefits of Sattvik Living" last quarter.

We also conducted an Alumni Mentorship Program, where we invited alumni of colleges to interact and guide the students. This session was attended by 100+ students.

This quarter due to COVID-19 wave 2 we were not able to conduct our programs offline. But to help students we conducted various Online Programs. We conducted follow-up sessions for students who had attended "Industry Oriented Training Bootcamp" last year to help them solve their problems.

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.