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YOUTH AND ADOLESCENTS
If the youth is kept idle, they may get attracted to unsocial activities and there will be an increased burden on the parents. We feel that school/college dropout youth, young women, unemployed youth should given proper counseling, guidance and create employability potential.
Present Activities:
- Vocational trainings - Beautician, tailoring and embroidery, basic computer training, spoken English, office assistant training are provided to poor youth.
- Personality development- Work place English and life skills are provided for the needed youth.
- Free counseling and placement services are provided for the trained candidates including women.
Achievements:
- Conducted counseling for about 2000 youth on self development, career building, employment in gulf countries, etc. Organized Youth Trainings, Youth Festivals, Sports and Cultural and Social Development Programs.
- Vocational Trainings were organized to benefit about 4000 youth and adolescent girls in the Districts of Karimnagar, Nizamabad and Adilabad and in the slums of Hyderabad.
- Conducted various skill development activities like computer, work place English, tailoring, beautician, lab technician, mobile repairing, cable tv functioning, office assistant training, sales and marketing training etc
- Conducted tailoring and embroidery classes for the adolescent girls from the Mid Manair Dam affected villages, Ramnagar, Kothirampur and Kisan nagar areas of Karimnagar, benefiting 185 girls and young house wives, who got employment and self employment and started earning income to support their families.
Success stories:
VOCATIONAL TRAINING
Shabana studied upto x class after that she could not continue her studies as her parents did not approve to venture outside. One day she came to know about the beautician and mehendi training at Sahara from her friends. She came to Sahara with her grand mother and seeing other girls getting trained in beautician course she convinced her family to learn for time being as she may get married in a short period. When she completed her course with SAHARA along with life skill classes, her self confidence grew and she wanted to support her parents and younger sisters. She became a trainer at Sahara itself and later started her own parlour at home. Her first income started with Rs. 0- to Rs.3000 and now she is able to earn more than 20,000. Her life has taken a successful turn with the course she has learned and she became an asset to family and herself. She started earning for herself with respect and dignity.
K.Vijayalaxmi Kapraveni (Hyderabad )
Vijayalaxmi Kapraveni is staying at Premnagar of Amberpet, Hyderabad. This area is dominated by the migrated population from different districts. Her parents also migrated from north Telangana areas to city for survival. Her father Rajaiah died in the year 1994 when she was 8 years old. Then, her mother Balamma became a maid servant to feed her two children. Vijayalaxmi completed 7th class and after which she could not continue her education because of the family burden. She has one brother who works as a daily labour. She slowly started to accompany her mother in maid servant work after her school hours.
She had worked with four houses as a maid servant earned Rs.1200 per month. She was not happy to do maid servant work but she was compelled to do for the sake of the family survival. The income from other members of her family was not sufficient. When she got counseling from sahara, she said that she has a desire to learn the tailoring but she could not go to any other training institute because of heavy fee and she was very much inclined to join the course to fulfill her desire.