“Poverty is the worst form of violence.” - Mahatma Gandhi
Unnati- an initiative of SGBS trust was started in October 2003 with the purpose of enabling underprivileged, unemployed youth to get employed.
In India, a large percentage of youth have no access to formal / higher education. Around 80% of them don’t reach even 10th standard. Left unattended, these youth could potentially turn to non-productive / anti social activities. Unnati was started with the aim to provide a sustainable livelihood and economic independence to such youth, and integrate them in to the mainstream.
Unnati was conceived to harness their potentialities, and mould them in to self reliant, productive workforce for the country
Under privileged youth by and large lack direction and purpose in life. Unnati transforms such youth in to self respecting, confident individuals, capable of making right choices in life.
They startdreaming and pursuing their own set of goals, and alongside become positive change agents in their local communities.
Small Beginning Unnati was started in a 2 bed room rented premises, churning out around 70 youth per year in 2 vocations. In 2008 state-of-the-art Unnati centre was set up, which currently trains more than 600 youth per year.
Big Leap The course contents, curriculum, and methodologies have been perfected over the years, which Unnati is willing to share with any NGO / interested individuals / organizations for setting up such centres elsewhere.
Unnati’s mission is to ‘train and employ 1 million underprivileged youth by year 2020.
