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The youths in India are underutilized due to lack of appropriate skills. In India very little steps have been taken so far for opening up avenues of skill development for the rural youths, who are generally deterred from entering into public training centers due to lack of academic qualifications and required costs. However, it is commonly recognized that little could be expected from the youths unless their technical potential is developed. An important contribution made by Turnstone Global in this field is the Skill Training for Youth Resource
Development program:
SKILL TRAINING CENTRE –STC
Turnstone Global has a very well-constructed building under this program. The building is 1450 square meter long and semi-pucca that has a veranda and six rooms for arranging classes and project administration. The STC also has 422 square meter open workshop space and a 924 square meter long two-storied full-pucca dormitory that provides accommodation to 30 students including dining hall, bathrooms, toilets, and two guest rooms for visitors.
During the year 2017 a three storage girls hotel has been constructed in the STC and 20 girls are accommodated in the hostel. During the year 2017, 88 unemployed youth (30 girls and 55 boys) received one year skill development training in different courses including 3 months internship in the local production shop/institution/company. Out of 88 students 43 students are provided with hostel facilities as they came from distant places. The scope of utilization of this center is expanding gradually and Turnstone Global has plan for maximizing its use further.
Youths who have graduated from the STC of Turnstone Global are now confident of their self-employment of these 42 graduates have already got jobs in different workshop/production centers and in company during and after the completion of internship. In addition, 21 graduates built their own workshops.
Impact of Skill Training Center
Jhumpa Das, she lives in Matigara village of Siliguri,
They are 5 brothers and sisters. She is youngest one in family. Her father is a agriculture labor & Jhum cultivator and Mother is a house wife. It was quite impossible for them to run the family expenses and not afford to bear their children`s education cost with his measly income. She has to stop her education in grade Nine .
Jhuma once a day known through miking in the Siliguri Upazila announcing “ Admission is going on for the dropped students in tailoring course by Turnstone Global”. Jhuma comes to heard and see the admission Poster and banner. She is interested to take tailoring training and informed her father. Because she is dropped from high school education level. She is shared with her father in subject matter. Jhuma with her father come to Turnstone Global training centre and submission an application for admission. She is selected for the tailoring training and got admission for the session October to December-2017. Besides their regular training and they have a program schedule for 5 days in a week.
After a three-month institutional training; she was assigned to Khokon Tailors at Siliguri bazar for internship training for two months. She successfully completes the three months training and leaves the training centre a certificate as one of the best students.
Now she is thinking –what will she do ? She wants to buy a machine but where the money will come from. She keeps looking for a way and finds out that Multi Co-operatives (a commercial business oriented) provides micro credit in their area. She takes a loan from Multi Co-operatives of Rs. 20,000/- and bought a sewing machine with different printed cloths. With this machine she makes a different kinds of dresses for her neighbors and local people. She pays back the entire loan within due time from the earnings of this business. Now she is very happy to given money to her parents and expenses her family costing. She earns average 6500-7000 thousand Rupees per month.
She is very happy now for help to her parents. She expects and wants to be a Tailor Cutting Master. She wants to given thanks and grateful to TURNSTONE GLOBAL-authorities to become a change her future life. She feels that once a day she wants to help training girls to her local area and make them self-employment.
