In today’s world skill development in rural India is highly important. Lack of proper education and training restricts people from the opportunities for self-advancement by limiting their access to well-paid employment. Hence this prevents them from making an influential contribution to economic growth and from having opportunities in their lives to build a satisfying and healthy lifestyle.
With the support of the SBI Foundation, SRDS is able to contribute in the training and up-skilling of the rural youth to support the overall development of the rural community.
It is clear that the youths and women in the villages have the ability to learn if they are given the opportunity for support. To this end we are furnishing them with a proper guidance, opportunities and encouragement to become independent and have a sustainable life.
To boost employment in the rural community, we have initiated a “Skill Development Program” in the adopted villages- Basapur, Kelur, Petha-Alur, Harogeri and Tabragundi.
We are collaborating with the SBI Foundation for the next three years to implement “SBI Gram Seva Program” in these adopted villages. We have initiated training the youths and women in a variety of skills including stitching, tailoring and embroidery training in the rural villages.
The main objectives of this program are to:
- Improve productivity and creating sustainability to start a micro-entrepreneurship in the village.
- To create an opportunity in the community with various skill development courses and to link them to the market to generate ongoing income.
- Skill training not only provides skills in a particular area, but trains youths/women to build and enhance networking, time management, communication skills.
Impact:
- Many women in these villages have started micro entrepreneur businesses since being trained.
- During this COVID time women are stitching masks and through these sales are enhancing their income.
- Other villagers have come forward to request more training in nearby villages
- A new ten day embroidery training has started
- The village youth have been inspired to learn modern technology to assist them to ulitise these to improve the possibilities in their lives.
