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Project Swadheen
(meaning self-motivated) provides vocational training and career guidance
to young boys and girls from urban and rural communities in pre-identified
trades. Training is provided in 20 different skills such as poultry
farming, garage mechanic, fabrication, carpentry, electric maintenance,
tailoring, nursing assistance, construction, pathological analysis,
housekeeping, tattoo making, and personal grooming. Girls and boys
in the age group of 14 - 20 who have attained functional literacy
through non-formal and formal education and participate in these training
programs. Full and partial scholarships are provided to the deserving
participants.
Project Swadheen acts as a natural extension after the career counseling
project and promotes employability and entrepreneurship. Many participants
have been able to obtain livelihood opportunities after this training.
It is being implemented at dedicated vocational training centers as
well as training centers run as part of high school curriculum under
the project known as PLAN 100. Please click here to know more
about PLAN 100.
Partner Organizations
Vigyan Ashram (VA)
Vigyan Ashram (meaning student's home for learning science and technology)
is a center of Indian Institute of Education (IIE) Pune. IIE is a
well known institution in the field of education. Over the years Vigyan
Ashram has developed training programs for rural youth in several
innovative technologies and has successfully helped to commercialise
them. More than 800 diploma graduates form VA have become entrepreneurs
and the job placement rate is 100%. To increase the pace and quality
of education delivery system, VA has adopted information technology
successfully.
It is one of the two centers in India, and one of the six across the
globe, to receive technical support and equipment for FAB-LAB from
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Mr. Yogesh Kulkarni, Executive Director, Vigyan Ashram acts as a project
coordinator.
For more information about Vigyan Ashram, please visit http://www.vigyanashram.com
Door Step School
Doorstep has been working in the non-formal education and community
development areas in the slum communities of Mumbai for over 15 years.
Hundreds of children and families have benefited from Door Step programs.
Several children have been able to enroll into formal schools.
Ms. Bina Sheth - Lashkari is a founder director of Door Step School
and will be the Project Coordinator. To learn more about Doorstep
School, please visit http://www.doorstepschool.org/dss/home.php
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| Here Vaibhav and Bhargav learn the art of heavy
metal welding. Vaibhav failed his 9th grade exams in school. He never
liked sitting in classrooms and listening to theoretical lectures
but loves the focus on practical skills.
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