A large portion of the underprivileged youth is forced to drop out of secondary school due to various socio-economic factors. To provide aid to them, we have designed various courses for children who wish to develop new skills to get jobs and lead a self-sustainable life.
Serve Samman currently runs various vocational centres, where approximately 80-120 students are enrolled. The courses provided at these centres aim to make the students self-reliant. Underprivileged children belonging to low-income families, from nearby villages are selected to attend our program.
Women are the worst affected due to poverty and unemployment. Having no means to create an income, they need to depend on men for everything. If the men are also unemployed, their situation worsens. We can empower such women with skills that help them become either small entrepreneurs or get respectable jobs and become self-reliant.
In our centres, theoretical and practical training in beauty and cosmetology is available for those children who wish to work in these industries and become working professionals.
Serve Samman also trains women in make-up and hairstyling to help them become independent. Our sewing centres train interested women in embroidery, stitching and fashion designing from scratch, enabling students to get jobs at a boutique or in the garment industry. Furthermore, basic tailoring skills enable women to work from home, earn and look after their families.
English is the most popular language worldwide. Communicating in English has become a necessity to excel professionally. The main hurdle for the rural youth to rise in their careers is a lack of knowledge in the language. To overcome this hurdle, we have set up English learning centres to help them learn the language and become ready for interviews and other opportunities.
Serve Samman had opened its very first literacy centre for the underprivileged in Delhi, catering mainly to primary and junior school children of ages 6-15. Most of the children here have never attended any form of formal schooling. We aim to provide these children with quality education, to help them develop holistically. Tuition support for children who require extra help is also provided.
In India’s small towns and villages, someone with even a master’s degree is unable to be employed, whereas vocational training in the repair of computers, printers, mobile phones, and basic software skills, can give immediate employment to students who haven’t even graduated school. As the labour market becomes more specialized and economies demand higher levels of skill; vocational training focusing on practical skills for students is the need of the hour so that bright employment opportunities are created.
It is difficult for the big multinational manufacturers to provide technological repair services in every town and village, here there is a nascent demand for such services from trained and qualified persons. Students undergoing a 6 month to one year course will get hands-on training enabling them to start earning post receiving their certificate.
As part of our strategy to train and empower the underprivileged with self-sustaining skills, we have set up computer training centres in Delhi and NCR. The duration of computer courses is three months each, starting with the Basics and graduating to the Advanced level. Training in theoretical and practical aspects of MS office (Excel, PowerPoint, Paint), HTML, Corel Draw, Cyber security and Photoshop is given to help introduce digital literacy and move forward with the changing technology.
Our centre at KOT was Serve Samman’s first vocational centre. While conducting eye camps at KOT village, Dadri, we realized that most people in the village were unemployed simply due to a lack of resources. Hence, we decided to start our first centre to generate employment for a few.
We established a centre which offered computer training, sewing and training to those in need in the nearby villages. Initially, it was tough to get students to join. However, once the word spread, the response became very overwhelming and more students started joining in. With their constant interest and motivation, there was no looking back for the Serve Samman team.
The centre is open 6 days a week, from 10 am to 5 pm. Currently, the courses offered at our centre include:
Address- Kota, Dadri
DEVLI VILLAGE, NEAR SANGAM VIHAR, NEW DELHI
Address-
644/1 Devli Village, Lal Dora
Opp. Tinu Public School, New Delhi-110062
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