Learning and livelihood
Skills and vocational training
A certificate that no employer recognises is worse than no training at all. Every course we run is built backwards from a job that exists in that district — welding where fabrication units are hiring, electrical work where solar installers are, machine operation where the plants are.
Courses run between six weeks and nine months. Trainees who cannot afford to stop earning get an evening batch and a travel stipend, because losing daily wages is the most common reason people drop out halfway.
We stay involved after the certificate. The centre keeps a placement register, follows up at three and six months, and pays for the second attempt if someone fails an assessment.
How the programme works
- Courses chosen from local hiring demand, not a fixed national catalogue
- Evening and weekend batches for people already working
- Travel stipend for trainees who would otherwise drop out
- Placement follow-up at three and six months after certification
What your donation buys
- ₹2,000Tools and consumables for one trainee through a full course
- ₹6,000One trainee's course fee for a term
- ₹40,000A full six-week batch of twenty trainees
Questions about this programme
Who can enrol in the vocational training programme?
Anyone aged sixteen or above, with priority to school-leavers, women returning to work, and workers changing trades after injury or industry decline. There is no minimum education requirement for most trades.
Do trainees pay anything?
Fees are subsidised and waived entirely for those who cannot pay. No one is turned away for inability to pay, and we do not publish a means test that shames people into not asking.