LIVELIHOODS
The Community Livelihood Centers are providing the Job Oriented Vocational Training (JOVT) skills among the deprived sections of the communities to enhance the employment skills and create more entrepreneurship opportunities for the youth in the urban slums. The initiative is to channelize the energies of disadvantaged youth and create skilled work force.
Mahita is running centers that offer computer training, beautician, marketing, IT and fashion design in Hyderabad. It opens up a brand new world of oportunities to these young girls and boys from the slums. Its support and guidance is extended to the groups not only during the training period but also in getting suitable employment opportunities.
It is creating a world view for the young girls as well as increase their mobility and that leads for economic empowerment. It even enhances the decision making processes of women in general and young girls in particular in addressing their health and social issues.
DIGITAL DIVIDE
Accessing technical education, especially computer skills, is a dream for many young children in the slums. To turn it into a reality, Mahita is running computer centres to reach many young girls on honing their literacy and cyber skills and more importantly to widen their horizon from traditional mindset thus opening a brand new world of opportunities.
LIVELIHOOD SUPPORT TO VULNERABLE FAMILIES:
Mahita is reaching out to 600 vulnerable families every year to address the child labour and improve school retention rates by establishing Livelihood Units. This is creating a lot of viable impact towards
- sending their children to school regularly,
- establishment of their own entrepreneurship,
- develop the linkages
- enhancing their family income
- developing their knowledge on marketing skills etc.
They are yielding very good results and creating positive impact among the target groups. It’s not only supporting to the vulnerable children education but also enhancing the family income.
In Adilabad, the livelihood support programme has been launched in collaboration with NABARD and the district ITDA, to promote horticulture and so far, 500 acres of land have been brought under orchard plantations. It successfully completed trainings on livelihoods, formation of VDCs in all the 17 villages and they got bank linkages through our interventions. Support from agriculture department, KVK Adilabad, ITDA Utnoor is providing need based trainings to farmers whereas support from the mandal parishad development department through EGS staff.