LIVELIHOOD

”Vatsalya – livelihood program, the vocational training for disadvantaged young people in Rajasthan”

Our Vision

To be a centre of excellence for the provision of directed high quality vocational training to enable our disadvantaged young people reach their potential.

Our Mission

Across multiple localities, provide high quality learning environment which offer relevant focused vocational training; and personal skills development to enable our students to gain suitable employment in targeted, local industries.

By one estimate, which may be optimistic, only 20% of job-seekers have had any sort of vocational training. If India cannot find employment for this lot, poverty will not be reduced and India may face serious instability. While India has large young population, only 5% of the Indian labour force in the age group of 20-24 years has obtained vocational skills through formal means whereas the percentage in industrialized countries varies between 60% and 96%. The vocational education stream is quite small enrolling less than three percent of students at the upper secondary level.

Vatsalya is one of nine organisations in India providing Market Aligned Skills Training (MAST) under a grant from the American India Foundation (AIF). Vatsalya Provide skills in market aligned categories to youth aged 18-35 years. Market Aligned Skills Training Offer skill based training to place disadvantaged young population in entry level jobs. Alignment with industry to offer Market Aligned skills in computers, marketing, hospitality and tailoring, as well as English speaking and personality development is done directly and through its portal www.kaamgar.com The target students are Unemployed young population aged 18-35 Mainly semi-literate to low literacy levels in slum areas. Direct relationships for placement in many cases with local employers is done on regular basis

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