SKILLS AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT

AKRSP(I) traditionally focused on agriculture and related livelihoods, but over time there was need to include programme which are suitable to changing contexts and fulfil the aspirations of youth living in rural areas. Considering this, we started the Yuva Junction initiative in the year 2007.

  • Skills and Entrepreneurship
  • Skills and Entrepreneurship
  • Skills and Entrepreneurship
  • Skills and Entrepreneurship
  • Skills and Entrepreneurship
  • Skills and Entrepreneurship
  • Skills and Entrepreneurship

Yuva Junction

  • Yuva Junction aims at providing holistic training to youth of all strata of society. The training module ensures job preparedness by providing English language, basic IT literacy, life skills and my career modules. Training comprises of digital lessons, theory-based lectures, role-plays, presentations and on job training when applicable.
  • Yuva Junction centres, which are located in remote rural locations, currently provide skills on various trades including Retail, BPO, Computer Hardware, Nursing, Beauty and Wellness and, sewing and stitching.
  • Yuva Junction has trained more than 25000 youths in last 10 years on various skills. We have partnerships with several industries for providing job opportunities to these youth who get around Rs.6000 to Rs.10000 per month as salary post-training and placement.

Entrepreneurship

  • In this era of start-ups, there are entrepreneur icons from marginalised communities like Dalits and Minorities, but no prominent faces from the Tribal communities. Keeping this in mind,AKRSP(I) has initiated a programme with focus on supporting youths from Tribal communities who are willing to take up entrepreneurship as career option.
  • We aim to provide support to youths on trainings, mentoring, networking, seed funding, financial linkages and other needs-based support. We have identified a first cohort of youth and initiated processes to help these youth build sound enterprises.