Skills on Wheels

Project Details

The program aims at improving livelihood of rural households by way of providing Retail / Warehouse skill training.

Pipal Tree has built a bus for skill training “Skills on Wheels”. It is a new bus specially modified to provide skill training for rural youth / women at their doorsteps. This bus would move from one location to other location based on availability of interested beneficiaries and would provide skill training and employment (post training) to them. This approach would also address the issue of need for daily travel of beneficiaries to training center or need for providing residential training facilities.

It aims to empower Youth/ Women through skill development training by providing variety of skills and employment / self-employment with Well-known Employers.

1. Basic soft skills: - Soft skills include speech and behavioral training, basic English language training in reading and writing.

2. Motivational Training: - Explaining the youth/women about the career opportunities available to them in the industry whilst using inspirational videos of Pipal Tree youth/women who have grown to supervisory cadre after working hard for two years.

3. Skill Orientation: - During this training, students are trained on basic concepts, tools and work methodology of the skill to achieve proficiency in Retail skills. The trainers cover the theoretical concepts with help of exclusive animated films and videos in Hindi, English and other local languages.

4. Provide certification and Permanent Jobs:- All students would be awarded certificate issued by Pipal Tree in accordance with National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) accredited by Government of India. Also, as per interest students wouid be offered jobs with Retail stores and warehouses.