By Sanchari & Umesh A good cause is lucrative and meaningful in so many ways. Therefore, we, volunteers from Accenture, are striving to do something rewarding here at ETASHA – easing the workload of the dedicated faculty by helping the trainees enhance basic skills in math, computers and spoken English On our first visit […]
Read MoreBy Riya Vij Today’s sessions were both fun and informative. It was a whole new experience for me. I felt like I was among the trainees. I had expected that as a silent observer, it might not be too exciting, but I was mistaken. It was a very exciting day. As we started, I saw […]
Read MoreBy Neha Abraham Meet Shashi, a 20-year-old ETASHA trainee from Mayur Vihar phase III, Delhi. Shashi Bala is the eldest of six siblings. Her mother works at a factory fixing zippers on bags and her father is a dhobi. Every day she leaves for her CPCTT (Certificate Program in Computer Teacher Training) classes after cooking for […]
Read MoreBy Himanshu Shukla “How did you get to be an EVS volunteer? Isn’t it only for Europeans?” This is the question I got asked so many times by my friends, my acquaintances and even by my co-passengers on my flight to Slovenia. I told them that I am on a parallel EVS project under which […]
Read MoreThe event is the latest in a series of activities ETASHA undertakes with the objectives of spreading awareness about Vocational Training and career opportunities in the Organized Sector and of influencing members of target communities to think long term and plan for pursuit of careers. We are organizing a “Career Development Mela” on February 22, 2015 […]
Read MoreBy R. Nithya Himanshu Shukla, 20, remembers hanging out with his friend on an afternoon when he received a phone call from ETASHA Society. It had been a few months since he finished the program on Customer Service and Work Culture (CSWC) from ETASHA’s Career Development Centre in Tigri (south Delhi), so the call was […]
Read More“Then where are you from?” a trainee asked me. On my second day volunteering at ETASHA, I observed a class on Spoken English at the Mori Gate centre in North Delhi. Eight or nine trainees, probably about my own age – 19 – sat around the edges of the room in wicker chairs that […]
Read MoreAccording to the ILO, the Indian Industry will have a demand for 500 million skilled workers by 2022. However, the current supply of skilled workers is only 3.4 million approximately. The Indian education system, which often overlooks employability skills, faces a massive task of making 496.6 million Indians employable in a new-age economy within […]
Read MoreBy R. Nithya He had a job, true. He also had enough money for his family to survive in the resettlement colony of Dakshinpuri in South Delhi. But Raj Kumar, now 26 years old, wanted more. Not more money, but something more important and rather more difficult to earn. He wanted respect. “I never […]
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