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Equipping ”
Youth with
Employability
Skills Through
Yuvakendras
HCL Foundation’s Yuvakendras in urban areas and centres are community hubs that impart
short-term skill building training to youth who have not been able to complete mainstream
education and are from economically challenged backgrounds.
These centres train them in core skills such as computer skills, business process outsourcing,
IT skills, retail services, and customer relations. Eligible candidates are supported to secure
jobs through special recruitment drives and career fairs.
These also target women from vulnerable communities and focus on their career
development training, digital literacy, and essential life skills including personality
development, assessing strengths and weaknesses, goal setting, efective communication
and motivation.
The HCL Foundation also works to build entrepreneurial skills among women. They receive
training to identify and maximize income generating opportunities, and guidance to establish
self-help groups within the community.
IN FY16-17,
4,173 80% 2,000
NUMBER OF YOUNG OF YOUTH WOMEN BENEFITED
PEOPLE RECEIVED ENROLLED IN HCL THROUGH THE
SKILL ENHANCEMENT YUVAKENDRA WERE EMPLOYMENT
TRAINING IN 13 PLACED IN JOBS AND LIVELIHOOD
YUVAKENDRAS; PROGRAM
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