A year after opening a similar centre at Bahadurpura, the United Way of Hyderabad – an NGO based in Hyderabad has founded another free Skill Training Centre recently in the Narsingi area under Manikonda Municipality.
Elucidating about the NGO and the initiatives being taken up by the organization, Rekha Srinivasan, the CEO of the United Way of Hyderabad (UWH), said, “The United Way of Hyderabad (UWH), founded in the year 2010, has introduced program ‘Hunar’ in the year 2019 to promote skill development among underprivileged youth. Over the last three years the NGO reached out to over 500 youth especially the women from the old city area of Hyderabad through the program. However, with a view to reach out more youth through the skill development program, the UWH opened its second skill training centre in Narsingi.”
“The NGO has planned to reach out 250 students in its first year of operations” she said adding that the “Students enrolled at the center will have to undergo two months of training in basic work readiness curriculum including spoken English, Information Technology (IT), work etiquette sessions, mindset and exposure sessions, besides CV preparation sessions and attending interviews.”
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United Way of Hyderabad, a non-profit organization, has a base at Telangana and Andhra Pradesh and mainly focuses on the sectors like education, livelihoods, care and protection besides environmental protection and disaster relief over the last decade.
“Students will be benefit with scholarship during the training program and later all the enrolled aspirants will have to see placements after the conclusion of the training program,” she explained.
Earlier in the year 2018, a Skill Training Centre was opened at the Vattepally area in Bahadurpura Mandal chiefly to promote culinary art among the poor women folk of the old city, a downtown of Hyderabad.