Unleashing the potential of youth for sustainable development
Unleashing the potential of youth for sustainable development
Secondary education and prevention of child marriage for out-of-school adolescent girls in rural India
Each year for 1.5 million girls in India, child marriage limits foundational life choices, and instead brings in motherhood and hardship, leading them into a downward spiral of poverty and ill health. Ensuring secondary education for 1% of these girls will enable them to prevent child marriage and initaite an upward journey into future, leading to an increase in India's GDP by USD 5.5 billion.
YouthInvest has set up URJA Kendra in urban slums and rural areas to enable underprivileged young people - who often lack access to resources - learn 21st-century digital & IT and communication skills, and enhance life skills for increased job-readiness and employability.
In India, breastfeeding faltering and inadequate feeding practices during the first two years are key reasons for widespread childhood malnutrition. YouthInvest's health & nutrition programme in Assam is strengtheing capacity of 18000 plus Anganwadi Workers and 600 plus ICDS Supervisors on home-level counselling on appropriate feeding practices for first 1000 days (pregnancy and the child's first two years), aimed at prevention of childhood malnutrition among 1 million under 5 children.
We are an Indian not-for-profit organization with a mission to empower young people in reaching their full potential and lead productive lives. We envision healthy, educated, emotionally well-adjusted, and skilled adolescents and youth – especially from marginalised and disadvantaged populations – entering adulthood.
We work in partnership with government, local communities, and private sector to strengthen youth participation in the development process and bring about sustainable change in education and skills training, health & nutrition, and life skills development of children and young people.
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We work in the domain of education and skills training, health and nutrition, and youth leadership and life skills development, focused on critical life stages, i.e., childhood, adolescence and youths, to ensure sustainable change.
We currently work in West Bengal, Assam and Jharkhand.
Districts
West Bengal: Kolkata, Howrah, Hooghly, Paschim Medinipur
Assam: Kamrup, Baksa, Barpeta, Darrang, Goalpara, Hailakandi, Udalguri, Dhubri
Jharkhand: Ranchi
Contact us
Registered Office
W 113, Greater Kailash Part 2
New Delhi 110048
Head Office
AltF, Express Trade Tower 2,
7th Floor
Sector 132, Noida 201301
Kolkata Office
1st Floor, Plot No. 50
10K, Sahapur Colony (West)
New Alipur, Kolkata 700053
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