Functional Vocational Training
The aim of SSD is to nurture sustainable livelihood opportunity for the school dropout youth of Karauli District. SSD provided vocational training to rural school dropout youth and opportunities to the poor youth especially from deprived communities in gainful employment/Self employment. During this SSD trained 30 women in tailoring and embroidery for 6 months in two batches of 15 trainees each. The training intervention enabled the youth to setup self employment units and with linkages to job providers and financial institutions. Following it applicant contacted SBI, Canara, PNB and Co- operative Banks to provided loans through SHG’s after completion of the training to start their own venture. Women were also linked to the wholesale merchants who are selling finished products in Jaipur and other tourist places in Rajasthan. During and after the training women were linked to existing entrepreneurs/Contractors for upgrading their skills and employment.
Mason Training
By observing the demand of skilled high speed industrial sewing machine operator in the garment industry, To avail this opportunity and to trained the BPL youth of villages in garment manufacture and to provide them employment SSD proliferated the awareness regarding this in Karauli District and conducted a workshop for the youth of BPL families in the Sapotara Block of Karauli District.
62 youth from Different villages attended this Training and get benefited. All candidates got job or self employed at various places.
Self Help Groups :
SSD has endeavored to organize women & men of these 11 villages in separate groups to promote habit of thrift & saving among them, so that these villagers may be saved from debt trap, resulting from exorbitant rate of interest, imposed by local money lenders. It has been observed that often need of these villagers are small, So SSD has tried to combine these villagers in self help groups, so that their collective savings may be used by respective members of that group on reasonable interest rate. This activity has met with enthusiasm from women & men folk of these villages & 42 SHGs comprising of 500 members have started functioning with savings of Rs 25000.
The aim of SSD is to nurture sustainable livelihood opportunity for the school dropout youth of Karauli District. SSD provided vocational training to rural school dropout youth and opportunities to the poor youth especially from deprived communities in gainful employment/Self employment. During this SSD trained 30 women in tailoring and embroidery for 6 months in two batches of 15 trainees each. The training intervention enabled the youth to setup self employment units and with linkages to job providers and financial institutions. Following it applicant contacted SBI, Canara, PNB and Co- operative Banks to provided loans through SHG’s after completion of the training to start their own venture. Women were also linked to the wholesale merchants who are selling finished products in Jaipur and other tourist places in Rajasthan. During and after the training women were linked to existing entrepreneurs/Contractors for upgrading their skills and employment.
Mason Training
By observing the demand of skilled high speed industrial sewing machine operator in the garment industry, To avail this opportunity and to trained the BPL youth of villages in garment manufacture and to provide them employment SSD proliferated the awareness regarding this in Karauli District and conducted a workshop for the youth of BPL families in the Sapotara Block of Karauli District.
62 youth from Different villages attended this Training and get benefited. All candidates got job or self employed at various places.
Self Help Groups :
SSD has endeavored to organize women & men of these 11 villages in separate groups to promote habit of thrift & saving among them, so that these villagers may be saved from debt trap, resulting from exorbitant rate of interest, imposed by local money lenders. It has been observed that often need of these villagers are small, So SSD has tried to combine these villagers in self help groups, so that their collective savings may be used by respective members of that group on reasonable interest rate. This activity has met with enthusiasm from women & men folk of these villages & 42 SHGs comprising of 500 members have started functioning with savings of Rs 25000.