Salem Social Service Society Sustainable Development Goal

Project Title

Promotion of collective employment among marginalised school dropout youth in 4 villages of Salem district.

Project Location

SSSS will implement this project in 4 villages, namely Manjakuttai, Settipatti, Kollapatti and Saniyasigundu in Salem district in Tamil Nadu. Manjakuttai is a tribal village in Yercaud Hills in Salem district and it is 40 km away from Salem town. Settipatti is a village in Omalur block and it is 16 km away from Salem town. Kollapatti is a village in Salem block and it is 8 km away from Salem town. Saniyasigundu a slum area in Salem Corporation is 5 km away from Salem town.

Project goal

To ensure marginalised dropout youth have significantly improved their socioeconomic life standard through collective employment ventures.

Project Objectives

1. To enhance trade skills of dropout youth through the promotion of community owned-skill training programmes.
2. To enable the trained youth to involve in collective employment ventures in order to achieve their collective self-sustenance.

Anticipated Results

1. The local influential stakeholders have effectively coordinated with the target youth to enable them to gain trade skills.
2. Evolved a skill training plan for effectively and efficiently imparting skill training programmes.
3. Effectively capacitated the focused youth to gain required skills in the selected trades.
4. The trained youth have gained confidence to collectively engage in trade promotion.
5. The local influential stakeholders have effectively coordinated with the target youth to enable them to sufficiently engage in the collective enterprises.
6. Evolved collective employment plans and trade sustainability plans.
7. The trained youth collectively started off income generation programmes to obtain a regular source of income.
8. The targeted youth have availed socioeconomic resources from State and Private actors to initiate and sustain in the collective enterprises.