ETASHA Society

About us

ETASHA was founded in 2006 by Dr Meenakshi Nayar to work with youth from low resource settings. ETASHA Society is a non-profit organisation that empowers low-income communities by skilling them to be employable in a changing world.
ETASHA became a bridge connecting resource-poor youth with the organised sector, enabling them to break out of the vicious cycle of poverty and the associated problems of violence, substance abuse and social unrest.
Today, ETASHA runs innovative interventions in 5 verticals Vocational Training & Placement, Employability Skills Development & Placement, Counselling & Guidance in Schools, Training of Trainers, and, Women Entrepreneurship Programs, and undertakes whole-community- based projects.

Vision
“An India where every adult is skilled for income generation to lead a life of self-respect and dignity”.

Mission
“To Provide Training and Mentoring to resource-poor communities for Sustainable Employment and Income Generation”

ETASHA’s approach is to work with multiple interventions geared to helping several segments in low-income communities to become aware of the changing realities of the employment and income generation marketplace and to develop appropriate mindsets, attitudes and skill-sets required for gainful work and living lives of self-respect and dignity.

Programmes:
ETASHA’s programmes are focussed on different segments of the community including adolescents, teachers, women, families, school systems, other Vocational Training Providers and the community at large. We don’t just work on skill-development, but on bringing about a positive mindset change in the individual and in the community for sustained employment and income generation.

• Vocational Training & Placement: ETASHA connects 12th pass girls & boys with employment opportunities through short duration programs. The focus is on developing a mindset & work-ethic necessary for success in modern work environment
• Counselling & Guidance in Schools: ETASHA’s counsellors help build confidence and self-respect through soft skills development and counselling, and help create focus and vision through systematic career guidance.
• Employability Skills Development and Placement: ETASHA provides training and placement support to Engineering as well as Non-Engineering students.
• Training of Employability Skills Trainers: ETASHA mentors the trainers to update their existing knowledge with requirenments of modern-day work environments, and develops their skills for mentoring students for success in modern industry to help them train the trainees in the best possible way
• Development of Women Entrepreneurs - Incubation Of Enterprises: ETASHA trains & develops underprivileged women to come together in small groups to set-up and efficiently run jointly-owned enterprises. ETASHA enables them to gain self-respect, dignity and co-create economic progress.

For other net participants we can offer an expert guidance through trained staff, give an expert opinion, procure expert information and establish new contacts in the field of our work.