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Supporting skilling initiatives with an aim to empower youth, differently-abled individuals and low-income communities to be adept for better employment opportunities.

Through our partners, the Skill and Entrepreneurship Development Institute in Nalagarh, Himachal Pradesh, Skill Development & Rehabilitation center in Roopnagar, Punjab and Learning Links Foundation in Panvel, Maharashtra we supported skilling programmes to empower 1200+ youth from low-income communities and children with special needs.

The story of Yash Patil

Yash is training as a draughtsman mechanic at ITI, Panvel where he studies. His education is supported by us through the Skills4Future programme in partnership with Learning Links Foundation, our NGO partner.

He is an exceptional student with a humble family background. His father is an auto driver and works to support his family. Yash was eager to pursue mechanical engineering but couldn’t do so because of his family’s difficult financial condition. He even worked in a general store to support his family. Keen on following his passion, he finally enrolled at ITI, learning the draughtsman mechanic trade. A keen learner, he gave it his all in this program.

Yash was keen on learning English and sought his facilitator’s guidance to improve his vocabulary, pronunciation and gradually improve his command over the language . He enjoyed learning English and mentioned that he never thought that somebody like him could come in front of an audience and perform activities like speech, role-plays. He said that his improved soft skills have changed his behavior and have positively impacted his thought process and mindset.

Yash feels confident in this programme, compared to when he started. Through this programme he got the perfect platform to gain the much-needed skills for a draughtsman and in addition the English course helped improve his overall personality. He now has the much-needed confidence to get started in his career and support his family financially.

Let’s hear from Yash himself…….

  • “This programme has helped me overcome one of my weaknesses which was English. I never knew the importance of spoken English and soft skills but now I know how these skills are necessary to succeed in life”.

We are on the path to support many such children and young people like Yash, who get the much-needed boost to be skilled and financially independent.