Youth Employability Skill Building Program
The project is located in Nithari Village at Noida, Uttara Pradesh. This is an NCR area and very well settled colony. Nithari is one of the oldest villages in the area where thousands of migrated people are living with their families. This proportion of population belongs to different parts of the country. Most of them are unskilled laborers who are living in the slums with their families. The community comprises of shanty hutments surrounded by multi storey buildings or private bungalows. The parents of the target group work in these bungalows and apartments. Most of the beneficiaries belong to this population because they are deprived of livelihood and opportunities. For last couple of years NDS has been providing vocational training facilities to adolescent and youth. The significant of the program are:
Objective: The overall objective of the project was to provide a comprehensive skill development opportunity to youth & adolescents to enable a life full of opportunities for growth & progress. Keeping in mind the goal, we adopted the design of business community with Govt. syllabus.
- Computer training course:
Under this training program, we focused on basic computer training, tally, Web & Graphic Designing, etc. Generally this is a six month course, but it someone requires more, we provide it. The targets of the program are young generation who are either left out the school or contune to education. After completion of course, examination are conducted for the trainees under Jan Shikhan Sansthan a Govt. agency which provides certificate to the trainees
- Beauty culture Program:
The program was especially for female living nearby area. The age group of trainees was 15 to 30 years. It was design to cater the market demand such as bride, body care, beauty care etc. The target is young girls and women living in nearby area. After completion of the course, we have approached for further examination from Jan Shikhan Sansthan.
- Career counseling:
The career guidance centre was an ongoing program & we conduct sessions for youth & job seekers as well as who are looking forward for higher education. The focus is higher education, opportunity of job & more skill enhancing training opportunities. The target is to cover all groups of trainees who are direct beneficiaries of the program. However In 2017-18, we covered total 221 youths & guided them with best suggestions & ideas for their future. The students, who are completing their graduation or schooling, were also the part of this program.
The success of any project is being monitored by its achievement, implementation process, and acceptability of programs & participation of community. At this juncture, the overall success of the project was significant as we have achieved our goal & provided better opportunity to youth of poor community. As we had target to cover nearly 200 youths under two vocational training programs, we are pleased to say that we have achieved our goal as 154 participants' successfully attempted final examination in the month of April and received certificates from JSS(Govt. Agency) in the month of May. Rest will attempt in the month of July. Our existence in the area & earlier achievements helped us to reach to beneficiaries smoothly.