In the last 25 years Diya Foundation has impacted over 250 adults with intellectual challenges and touched and made life altering changes in over 1000 lives. The work skills training imparted is put to use in the "hands on” training internship at our Social Enterprise Diya Innovations in completing orders for Diya’s product line from individuals and corporates. Diya’s aim and goal is to empower differently abled individuals to work, earn and live a life of respect and love.
In 2021-22 over 42 Internship opportunities were provided and about 23 adults were placed in employment. They were chosen based on their skills and abilities. They were then matched with the requirements of the company according to the various processes in different teams. The interns were also trained on Employability soft skills. The training was rich in its value and was very systematic.
Over the years, Diya has been working with only adults in the age group from 18 and above, some do join the program without any basic foundational skills and hence, the journey to self-dependence for them takes much longer. Diya feels it is the need of the hour to start reaching out to the youngsters (14 -17 years) and start early on developing the foundational skills required through pre- vocational training programs before they can be transitioned into the Vocational training program. This training will contain the foundation level of Daily living skills and Personal social skills. So that when they reach 18 years, their capacity can be built for employability skills that will prepare them for the world outside. By then we have set the mindsets for work and productivity and their interests can then be mapped to job profiles that will match their strengths and interests. Pre- vocational training is linked to building the person towards an employable pool in society. With a suitable job, they become contributing members in their family, earn respect and live a life with dignity.
Individuals with an intellectual challenge have had life altering changes in their self esteem, self dependence and productivity through systematic and consistent training in the Diya training program. They have learnt personal grooming skills, household management, work skills, communication skills and are then given 'hands on' internships which may result in job opportunities either in Supported employment or Competitive employment. Recently we also started customised employment and prevocational training, as we were getting more students from the 15-17 age group. This way the foundational training begins earlier and later the students are able to focus on domain training. Our focus is also on internships and placements of our students.
The need of the hour is to tap the potential of a workforce that has so far been greatly ignored. The focus at Diya Foundation is on Vocational Education and Livelihood training for the differently abled.
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“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.” ~ Mother Teresa
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Utilization summary of funds raised last year in TCS World 10K Bengaluru 2023
| Amount Utilised (INR) | 53760 |
|---|---|
| Project Description | Diya Foundation is a Vocational Training program for adults with intellectual challenges. Every year around 45+ adults get trained in Life skills and Employability soft skills. |
| impact | Through the Life skills and Employability skills training 85+ adults were trained last year and 23+ were offered internship opportunities and placement opportunities. |
Diya Foundation is a Vocational Training Center for adults with intellectual challenges. Registered as a Charitable Trust in 1999, the aim and focus of the Training program is to empower adults with intellectual challenges to be self dependent and discover their potential to work as per their interests and strengths.
Contact Person: Ruby Roy
Email: ruby@diyafoundation-india.org
Phone: 7411777219
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