Skilling & Employment Generation - Asmita
Skilling & Employment Generation
Turning Skills Into
Livelihoods
Tailoring • Computers • Trades • Placements
From our first tailoring class to five centres, cloth-based production and placements in nursing, hotel management, beautician and computer courses — ASMITA equips young people from the slums with skills that earn an honest, dignified income.
For many youth in the slums, a skill is the shortest road out of poverty.
Many 17–18 year-olds in the slums have little exposure to skilled work beyond rag-picking, daily labour, domestic work, or early marriage. Most have not completed Class 10 or 12, which closes the door to many training institutes.
ASMITA began with a single tailoring class. Today we run five tailoring centres, a growing cloth-based production activity, and we send young people for training and placements in nursing, hotel management, beautician work and computer courses.
We meet learners where they are — opening evening classes inside the community, arranging stipend support during training, and walking with each youth from the first lesson to a first income. The youth clubs themselves double as continuous platforms for life and employability skills.
Our promise to every learner
Our Skilling Impact
A year of opening doors to skills and steady, dignified earning.
From No Skills to a Livelihood
How a young person moves from uncertainty to earning with dignity.
Identify
Find youth out of school and out of work.
Counsel
Map interests, aptitude and family situation.
Train
Tailoring, computers, trades — near home or at partners.
Practice
Hands-on work, cloth production, real orders.
Place
Placements and links to employers.
Earn
A first income and a future with dignity.
Our Skilling Pathways
Four routes from the slum to a skill and a steady income.
Tailoring & Cloth Production
5 CentresOur oldest and strongest skill. 59 girls are enrolled in tailoring across the city, with courses from six months to a year, including a dedicated one-year centre established in Bajardiha.
Beyond training, we have begun cloth-based production — at the Sathiya centre women are trained in carry-bag making and have started earning through real orders. A new tailoring location is planned each year to reach a fresh batch.
Computer & Digital Skills
34 Trained34 girls have received computer training — basic, ADCA, and Tally with ADCA — at established institutes across the city.
Evening computer classes were opened at ASMITA, run by a youth club member, and laptops are used for digital-skill sessions during club activities, so learning continues right inside the community.
Vocational Training & Placements
Partner InstitutesWe send young people for trades that lead to jobs — nursing, hotel management, beautician courses and more, with placements at the end.
5 youth trained in hotel management through Tata Strive and GMR Varalakshmi Foundation, 3 girls in a beautician course at Grace & Glow, plus football coaching, music and art mentoring. Another 23 youth went on exposure visits to skill centres this year.
Life Skills & Employability
OngoingSkills alone aren't enough — young people also need confidence, communication and work-readiness.
Through 167+ youth club meetings, speech competitions and debates, members build the communication, confidence and personality that employers value. Many now carry themselves with assurance equal to any peer outside the slum.
Voices of Our Learners
The real measure of our work — young people now earning with dignity.
Moments From Our Centres
Glimpses of training, production and the pride of a first pay-day.
Our Skilling & Placement Partners
This work is powered by institutes and foundations that open their doors to our youth.