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The power of three
Employability – Employment- Empowerment
Life Skills in Retail is a first of its kind initiative that provides vocational education and training programs specially designed to cater to the employability in India’s retail sector. LIFE TRUST is launching this program from November 2009 in partnership with Jan Shikshan Sansthan (JSS) in Bangalore and Mumbai.
Interested candidates above the age of 18 - 24 years and those who have completed their 10th standard certification will be eligible to be enrolled for the programme. The LIFE Trust’s Retail programme will provide
· Education in Retail Skills and customer service to make them employable in retail jobs
· personality development
· support and interview coaching
· Individual career counseling
· Modules on dealing with rejection and counseling.
· Placment with retail Companies
Apart from these key advantages, the edge of the programme assures 100% placement in the retail industry.
The total duration of the course is 12 weeks and 60 candidates have signed up for the Pilot course.
Why we
do it: The objectives are two fold:
- To help women and young adults from poor backgrounds achieve their goal of completing higher education.
- To help women and young adults from poor backgrounds achieve their goal of completing higher education.
What do we do:
Bangalore: A volume of Life Trust’s activities at Bangalore is focused on non-formal education. Vocational training is conducted at the Government Correctional Institutional Campus, under the Women and Child State Department as well as in slum communities in Banashankari and surrounding areas. Additionally, in continuation of our aim to eradicate illiteracy, we have collaborated with the State Directorate of Mass Education to help implement some of their proposed schemes. Apart from vocational courses, a Life skills programme on creating awareness about health and hygiene and related issues has been implemented.
Mumbai: The vocational training activities in Mumbai began in the yesr 2006 with an aim to empower women to be economically independent, aware and to attain social leadership. Subsequent to the formation of Self Help Groups (SHG) within the community and Urban slums, our LIFE coaches conduct need based livelihood courses such as tailoring, beautician, hand embroidery, basic electricity and house wiring, maintenance of domestic appliances, computer training, cooking and many more.
How do we impact:
In Bangalore a total of 320 trainees at the Government Correctional Institutional Campus and 180 trainees at the Slum communities in Banashankari have received vocational training. Today, more than 450 children are training under the vocational courses and learning Life skills.
In Mumbai, the vocational training programme reaches out to over 400 women annually and the awareness programme impacts more than 3500 women in the slum communities each year.
List of vocational courses conducted:
- Computer Application and DTP
- Mobile phone Repair and Service
- Embroidery and Zariwork
- Beautician training
- Gardening
- Cutting and Tailoring, Dress Designing and Dress Making
- Hand Embroidery
- Paper products making
- Mehndi application
- Soap and Phenyl Making
- Bakery products training
We do not just stop here. We make every effort to ensure that our children and women get employment and are able to earn livelihood through the skills imparted. Rabia, one of our students, got placed with a leading salon in Mumbai. Here is her story.
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