Inclusive Workforce | Motivate | Train | Place

EMPLOYED
YOUTH.
EMPOWERED
NATION.

MISSION

Partnering to co-
create pioneering
solutions for an
inclusive workplace

VISION
Every Youth With Disability Will Have Access to Education and
Employment Opportunities

About Youth4Jobs
Youth4Jobs is South Asia’s largest organisation focussing on diversity & inclusion.
It skills less educated and educated youth with disabilities and places them in jobs
across the country. Youth enrolled are with locomotor, speech and hearing
impairment and with Visual impairment. Youth with Cerebral Palsy, Intellectual
Disabilities, Autism Spectrum Disorder are given Customised market-linked trainings.
It also offers a comprehensive end-to-end solution for companies which want to be
inclusive, such as:
• Accessibility Audit
• Sensitization Workshops
• Sign Language Workshops
• Making HR Policy Inclusive
• Comprehensive Role Mapping
• Simple Workplace Adaptations
• Consultancies For Inclusion Including Strategy And 5 Year Plan

* Many of these services can also be done virtually.

The work was featured as a case study in the prestigious Harvard Business Publication recently.

“We have been very impressed in the way Youth4Jobs have gone about their objectives. The
team has been very active and responsive every time we reach out to them. We are happy to
be a part of this journey, where a number of students with disability are gainfully placed in
various jobs, thus contributing to the financial independence of these students. This has been
a great journey so far and we wish the Youth4Jobs Team to continue the great work that they
do so well.”
Kesavan Balu
Vice President, KYC maintenance, Corporate Banking,
Barclays Global Service company Pvt Ltd

OUR CORPORATE PARTNERS

Y4J SCALE & IMPACT IN 9 YEARS - LARGEST IN SOUTH ASIA

875
PAN
Trained & Placed in INDIA
Jobs
COLLEGE CONNECT
Youth Connect
27,000 Pwd Trained
70% Placed
910
COMPANY
CONNECT VI:
Govt. Coaching

Center of
Village Connect
Inclusion 7.1 million households
 AWARDS

2011 : NCPEDP-Shell Helen Keller Award 2011

2012 : Fetzer Foundation USA Award for 2012-13
2014 : Innovation in Skill Development | Bihar Innovation Forum
2015 : Happiness Hall Of Fame
2015 : Sitaram Rao Livelihood Pan-Asian Case Study Competition
2015 : Rotary Award for Vocational Excellence
2015 : Women Super Achiever Award – World HRD Congress
2016 : Vodafone - “Women of Pure Wonder”
2016 : Americares Spirit of Humanity Award - Disability
2016 : Americares Spirit of Humanity Award - Livelihoods
2016 : Zero Project - Innovative Practices on Education and ICT
2017 : Zero project - Innovation Practice on Employment, Work &
Vocational Education & Training
2017 : National Award for Empowerment of Person with Disabilities
Divyangjan
2017 : NHRD SHOWCASE 2017 Award - Best Practices in HR
2018 : Capgemini Excellence in MIS
2018 : GoDiverse Award for Diversity and Inclusion
2019 : Qimpro Gold Standard 2019 – Education by QIMPRO
2019 : TV9 Nava Nakshatra Sanmanam by TV 9
2019 : MIT Inclusive Innovation Challenge Asia Winner by MIT IIC, USA
2020 : GTSABERA AWARD 2020
2020 : CSR TIMES GOLD AWARDS
2021 : Zero Project - Innovative Practices in Employment

PROGRAM 1 - PROJECT PARIVARTAN (WISE)

WISE (Project Parivartan) is India’s largest Skill Training Program for PwDs. We
provide them with 21st century portable skills like English Communication, Soft
Skills, Life Skills, Digital Literacy and Orientation in industries with job
opportunities.

OUTCOMES

Enrolment
Alumni Less from ALL 36 30% girls
become Educated get States and with
Changemakers Quality Jobs Union Disabilities
in the villages Territories

Trainings Trainees
provided at include
Mothers are
Training Widows and
largest word
Centers as Single
of mouth
well as Mothers with
ambassadors
Online disabilities

SOME SECTORS WE WORK WITH

Hospitality Retail Banking & Finance BPO Textiles

IT/ITeS Travel & Tourism Telecom E-Commerce Manufacturing

 PROGRAM 2 - COLLEGE CONNECT

College Connect program skills Educated Youth with Disabilities in Colleges

and those aspiring for better jobs.
Our innovation is setting up Smart Inclusion Centers (SICs) in Colleges /
Universities

What it does: (Our Focus)

• Increases PwD Enrolment in Colleges
• Makes Educators Disability Confident
• Empowers Educators using Tech
• Assesses, Trains and Places Educated Youth

OUTCOMES

Increased Increased
Enrolment Career
by 10% Prospects
Placements
Increased by
400% in our Quality Jobs
partner
Colleges

PROGRAM 3 – Y4J VISI N

This Project is targeted towards youth with visual impairment with a focus on
equipping them with skills needed to help them get eligible for Higher
Education, for appearing in Government Exams and helping them lead
independent lives. Youth4Jobs provides the training online and in our two
training centers located in Hyderabad and Delhi. The coaching for the Govt.
Exams is being scaled up currently.

What it does:
• Help youth with visual impairment to fulfil their aspirations for enrolling in
higher education by training them in English communication skills
• Enable them to learn computers using assistive technology (software) like
Jaws/NVDA - Digital literacy is the heart of the VI training
• Coaches them for government jobs by giving them holistic trainings in
English, computers, coding, maths & reasoning, and general knowledge.
• Counsel the youth to accept, adjust, cope and set goals for their
development
• Coach them for passing their 10th and 12th grade examinations. Held twice
a year as Open School Exams
• Sensitise companies by having interactions/mentorship/volunteer program
with VI youth

OUTCOMES

Increased
Enrolment in
Higher
Education
Companies see
Increased Rate of
Increased
Govt. Entrance
Awareness and
Exam Clearance
Sensitisation
BENEFITS TO
YOUTH WITH
VISUAL
IMPAIRMENT
Increased
Digital Literacy Aspiration and
Motivation

Sustained
Livelihood
 PROGRAM 4 - CORPORATE CONNECT

It supports WISE and College Connect by reaching out to companies actively to

help them begin or strengthen their journey of inclusion.

This program predominantly works to create awareness and build an inclusive

corporate world. Youth4Jobs works closely with 650+ companies of which 200
are first time hirers of disability. The mantra is “Hire youth with disability
because it makes business sense”. Once the company experiences the benefit of
hiring, inclusion gets mainstreamed within the organization.

Mandated by
Govt. (RPwD
Act 2016)
Increased
Increased
Productivity,
Goodwill;
Reduced
Builds Brand
Attrition
BENEFITS TO
OUTCOMES COMPANIES
HIRING PwDs
Boosting
Increased
Companies’
Innovation
Bottom Line
Company
becomes a
Great Place to
Work

PROGRAM 5 - Y4J CENTER OF INCLUSION

Cutting-edge Knowledge is the Key to advancement of

understanding the Disability Sector. Y4J does studies
which are released by Senior Govt. Officials and
disseminated widely to influence policy.

1. “THE INCLUSION JOURNEY : Integrating Persons with

Disabilities in the Hospitality and Quick Service
Restaurant Sector in India”, White paper by
Youth4Jobs.
2. “Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Higher
Education”, White Paper by Youth4Jobs and Deloitte.
3. ILO Report : Persons With Disability & The Indian
Labour Market: Challenges And Opportunities
4. “Road to Inclusion – Integrating PwDs in
Organizations” White Paper by Y4J and Boston
Consulting Group (BCG), commissioned by SCPwD
(Sector Skills Council of Persons with Disability),
Government of India
5. “The Inclusion Journey: Integrating PwDs in the BFSI
sector”, White Paper by Youth4Jobs with BSE Institute
& BFSI SSC (Sector Skills Council)
 PROGRAM 6
1. GOVT. GIRLS’ BLIND SCHOOL
2. GOVT SCHOOL FOR SPEECH AND HEARING IMPAIRED

Y4J adopted a vernacular Government Blind Girls’ School, where a holistic

model of transformation & education has completely changed the girls’ lives.

Digital Literacy Social Skills

A computer lab was set up and the girls
Including grooming,
were taught screen reading software
like JAWS. communication and safety skills.

OUT-OF-BOX ACTIVITIES
To kindle the spirit of “I Can”, Youth4Jobs did these unimaginable camps:

• Nature Walk • Textile Block Printing • Art & Clay Camps

• Visit to Ramoji Film Nagar • Visit to the Water Park • Heritage Walk

OUTCOMES

Reduces Improves
School Digital
Dropouts Literacy

Increase
Improves
Enrolment
English
into Higher
Education
Education

Meera Shenoy has over a decade experience in market- linked vocational

OUR FOUNDER skilling of rural, tribal and disabled youth from underprivileged families. She
is considered a pioneer in the country in this field and uniquely works on
policy and grassroot projects.
She has demonstrated for the country twice, a model for skilling rural youth
from villages and now youth with disabilities, and linking them to quality
jobs.
She has had two stints with the Government in senior positions. She was
Executive Director of EGMM, the country’s first job mission for rural and
Meera Shenoy tribal youth, which she helped set up from scratch in 2004. Her next
position was to support the Office of the Chairman, NSDA.

This mission formed the template of Government of India Skilling Programme for Rural Youth. She
has also consulted with the World Bank across South Asia and was senior advisor UNDP for skilling
and unemployment.

She is on the Governing Council of SCPwD (Sector council for Persons with disabilities) and the CII
Committee on Special Abilities. She was one of the few Indians to be invited to speak at the
prestigious TEDxBerkeley (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp7JfZDJPWo)
E: meera.shenoy@youth4jobs.org

Not Just Art is a digital platform created to support visual artists with
disabilities in India and promote their work to a global audience of art
lovers, collectors, museums, and galleries. We showcase their talents and
bring them into the mainstream art world, creating an inclusive global art
community.

We also introduce the benefits of art to children and youth with

disabilities through art workshops held in schools and community centers.

Website: www.youth4jobs.org
E-Mail: youth4jobs@gmail.com

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For Enquiries Contact:

• Sameer Nair | M: +91 91212 95240 | sameer@youth4jobs.org
• Ramesh Duraikannan | M: +91 63820 69647 | rameshd@youth4jobs.org

Youth4Jobs Foundation
P8-2-704/B/21, Sai Enclave, Behind Pension Office, Road No. 12, Banjara Hills,
Hyderabad, Telangana (500 034)