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Youth

Why is Sakhi working with Youth?

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Sakhi helps the growing up members of Karnataka’s society to rise to the challenge of facing every day difficulties like lacking educational possibilities, addictions, lacking health care systems or discriminatory and ostracizing arrangements- may it concern the Devadasi, the Dalits, or any other repressed minority. The Trust provides legality workshops, fee support for educational issues, youth exchange programs, skill development trainings and meetings for the adolescents to give them an opportunity to share their experiences and to smooth the way for a better future.

Crisis Intervention

Counselling and motivation workshops, offering help to those who dropped out of school, basic needs support like providing water, shelter and sanitation and organizing health camps and referrals are some of the most important issues concerning Sakhi’s intervention. We organize meetings, where the adolescents get to know how to apply for a job. We provide text- and library books for the young people and if it is necessary, offer a shelter to them. English tuitions and special coaching are also part of Sakhi´s program.

Crisis Intervention
Support

Education support

Our youth is our future. Therefore, youth group formations and meetings, exchange programs and gender trainings contribute to the Trust’s aim to make adolescents aware of their rights concerning education, livelihood and secure living conditions. Creating consciousness about anti-child marriage, anti-child labour and the Devadasi-system, providing information about governmental and non-governmental schemes and giving young people the opportunity to participate in network meetings and youth feasts is one step closer to remove obsolete and harsh arrangements in our society. Moreover, workshops concerning the importance of our endangered environment and a hygienic health care system, for ourselves and for our surroundings, are also relevant to achieve better circumstances of life. Ultimately, love and marriage workshops, film screenings and leadership trainings are vital to provide a better future for our youth. After their attendance to our trainings and meetings, they are capable of communicating all the things they have learned to society, so that, step by step, society may adopt their new ideas to resolve all the social issues, which are, by now, established in our communities.

Awareness & Improvements

Awareness & Skill Improvements

To improve and consolidate our adolescent’s skills and potential, Sakhi organizes cultural workshops concerning music, dance and drama. Furthermore, writers and readers workshops are held and crafts and arts are also major topics of our program. Career counselling, vocational trainings in terms of computer literacy and parlour also serve as necessary aids to prepare young people to earn their livelihood independently when they grow up. Also IGP programs regarding screen printing, kitchen gardening and paper craft are part of our scheme. Due to the fact that English is nowadays indispensable if one wants to communicate in our globalized world, English classes are  held. Moreover, courses concerning sustainable agriculture and waste management become more and more important and there is still a lot to advance.

Livelihood support towards sustainability & dignity

Sukrushi-Sustainable agriculture trainings

​For marginalized and landless people from the villages, in which Sakhi is working.
The youth is taught how to produce natural fertilizers and pesticides by using domestic and agricultural waste and tree extracts. Structural and sustainable agricultural models also play an important part.

 

Waste and water management

For marginalized and landless people from the villages and slums, in which Sakhi is working.
Sakhi provides trainings, during which the participants learn how to recycle waste and how to live towards an environment, that does not suffer from being polluted and contaminated.

Beauty parlour

For school dropouts and unemployed girls.
After finishing the course, the interested participants are able to build up their own beauty parlour. Accordingly, Sakhi financially helps them to start their business and gives advice to them whenever it is necessary.

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Computer training

For college students.
Sakhi provides these trainings to improve the students' computer knowledge concerning basic skills.

Livelihood support for towards sustainability & dignity
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