Functional Vocational Training

The aim of SSD is to nurture sustainable livelihood opportunities for the school dropout youth of Karauli District. SSD provided vocational training to rural school dropout youth and opportunities to the poor youth, especially from deprived communities in gainful employment/Self-employment. During this SSD trained 30 women in tailoring and embroidery for 6 months in two batches of 15 trainees each. The training intervention enabled the youth to set up self-employment units and linkages to job providers and financial institutions. Following it applicant contacted SBI, Canara, PNB, and Co-operative Banks to provide loans through SHG after completion of the training to start their own venture. Women were also linked to the wholesale merchants who are selling finished products in Jaipur and other tourist places in Rajasthan. During and after the training women were linked to existing entrepreneurs/Contractors for upgrading their skills and employment.

Mason Training 

By observing the demand for skilled high-speed industrial sewing machine operators in the garment industry, To avail this opportunity and to train the BPL youth of villages in garment manufacture and to provide them employment SSD proliferated the awareness regarding this in Karauli District and conducted a workshop for the youth of BPL families in the Sapotara Block of Karauli District.

62 youth from Different villages attended this Training and get benefited. All candidates got jobs or were self-employed at various places.

Self Help Groups :         

SSD has endeavored to organize women & men of these 11 villages in separate groups to promote the habit of thrift & saving among them, so that these villagers may be saved from the debt trap, resulting from the exorbitant rates of interest, imposed by local money lenders. It has been observed that often needs of these villagers are small, So SSD has tried to combine these villagers into self-help groups, so that their collective savings may be used by respective members of that group at a reasonable interest rate. This activity has met with enthusiasm from women & men folk of these villages & 42 SHGs comprising 500 members have started functioning with savings of Rs 25000.