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VISION STATEMENTCreate opportunities for school dropouts and deprived youths to help lead productive and socially useful lives.

MISSION STATEMENTTo give a second chance to less educated deprived youth through wage or self-employment based on urban and rural livelihoods training provided in partnership with stakeholders.

February 2014

Yuva Parivartan and Orbit-shifting Innovation: The Desire to Create and Not Follow History

• “Winds of change, when they come, are difficult to put away”. An ORBIT SHIFT has the same effect. It makes us believe in the impossible. When Orbits shift, it has a meaning, a signal that something which will affect lakhs of lives and improve their chances to live, is going to happen. Yuva Parivartan understands this.

• Looking at the demographic density of YOUTH which India has, YP picked up the baton to do ‘something’ to bring about a radical change in the lives of mankind, improving livelihoods and making the earth a better place to live in ….for all. Our Motto : to give a “ SECOND CHANCE “ to all those who deserve it. This very doctrine, makes us believe in the fact, that any individual has the capability and the capacity to learn and earn. At YP , we make them realize this and teach them the methods to earn a respectable livelihood.

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- Madhavi Mauskar, Head - Organizational Development

Yuva Parivartan Team with the facilitators of the Orbit Shift workshop

Yuva Parivartan and Orbit-shifting Innovation: The Desire to Create and Not Follow History

• Orbit-shifting innovation happens when an area that needs transformation meets an innovator with the will and the desire to create, and not follow history. At the heart of an orbit-shifting innovation is the break through that creates a new orbit and achieves a transformative impact.

Yuva Parivartan began its first orbit-shifting journey in 2010 with the fundamental question; “What is our orbit-shifting challenge?” In a country where almost 80% of the youth have not completed formal education, the organization and its leadership realized that a linear process of creating livelihoods would fall woefully short of their aspiration of transforming youth in India, by giving them a second chance. And from this question, was born their orbit-shifting aspiration: to grow from training/skilling 18,000 students to 100,000 students! An insurmountable task, it seemed, at that time. But in committing to this orbit-shifting aspiration, Yuva

Walking on fire and glass at the Orbit Shifting Workshop

Parivartan found a new direction. In this pursuit, their success came from a shift: fixed locations to mobile camps as a model

to reach students. The insurmountable had become possible.

Once the boundaries have opened up then the hunger for a repeat in orbit shifts is relentless, and today Yuva Parivartan is

poised for the next orbit-shift: the ambition to train/skill 1 million students. Having done and seen it happen before; there is

no doubt that we can make that orbit shift happen again. This next orbit-shift will call for new models of growth and reach.

• Erehwon Innovation Consulting has partnered with Yuva Parivartan in these journeys. In the first leap of 2010, by being the catalyst that asked the Orbit-shifting question that challenged the growth model, and in the second in 2014, in working with the organization to energise and enable the leadership team in pursuit of the orbit-shifting aspiration. Erehwon, a thought leadership firm in innovation, since 1992, partners with organizations, both in India and globally when there is a burning desire to pursue and convert the impossible to the possible; and hence create a transformative impact.

• The urgency for Orbit-shifting Innovation: • Countries in South Asia, the Middle East, South America and Africa are faced with the biggest developmental

challenges globally. Also, the next generation is coming in with much bigger dreams and aspirations, and a huge urgency to get things done faster and better. They do not want to wait for the world to change. If we are to create new futures for them, we need radically new approaches. Orbit-shifting innovation is needed to fulfil the out of the box ambitions of the next generation. We cannot wait.

•  • Devika Devaiah• Erehwon Innovation Consulting

Yuva Parivartan and Orbit-shifting Innovation: The Desire to Create and Not Follow History

Conversation with Dr. Hasit Joshipura, Snr. V.P. South Asia & Managing Director India for GSK

YP: Please share with us how you have been able to give of your time to this NGO considering your very hectic work schedule?

HJ: You can always give the time if you really want to, and my association with volunteer work actually dates back to my earlier work life. I used to work with Johnson and Johnson for 5 years in charge of their pharmaceutical business. I also used to lead their philanthropy programme. They had a very structured philanthropy programme, and I was the lead of the programme for 5 years, so you know my intent has always been there and YP is just one of the organisations with whom I am associated.

YP: How does GSK view the PULSE Volunteer partnership with Kherwadi Social Welfare Association?

HJ: It is viewed as a win-win for both GSK and KSWA. I think the kind of area in which they work is really livelihoods and skill development which is a very important need in India. Our PULSE volunteers give of their time to solving challenges at the NGO, and it is

important for our employees at GSK to realise how privileged they are to be working with a company like GSK when the mass of people around do not have that same kind of opportunity. Therefore, when they get a chance to work with an NGO like KSWA I am sure that is an awareness that comes home blindingly, and they are changed by the experience.

Dr. Hasit Joshipura, Snr V.P. South Asia & Managing Director India for GlaxoSmithKline and Advisory Board Member of KSWA’s Yuva Parivartan

Conversation with Dr. Hasit Joshipura, Snr. V.P. South Asia & Managing Director India for GSK

• YP: KSWA’s Yuva Parivartan Senior Managers said that they had a very stimulating think tank session with you. What was your take away from that interaction?

• HJ: From the quality of their questions, what comes through is the complete dedication and commitment of the team to the task they’re engaged in, and I think that is a very heartening thing. They are fully committed and energized by the goal of their organization, and I think that is the single most important takeaway I have.

• YP: If you were to change anything in your life what would it be and why?• HJ: I would be more accepting of the things that I cannot change and be more passionate about changing the

things that I can change.• YP: Are there any experiences in your earlier years that helped in making you have that passion for service?• I started out with a consumer company which required extensive travelling through the length and breadth of this

country, and I have firsthand experience of the deprivation which in those days was experienced by a large part of the population. That’s what really primed me for this sort of orientation.

• YP: What are one or two things that stand out about KSWA for you?• HJ: The dedication and passion of their team for the social cause. Secondly, their potential to make a difference in

people’s lives. The people at KSWA have a unique opportunity at a very appropriate point in time where I think the country is going through an inflection point. Livelihoods have suddenly become a very important focal point given the demographic dividend that we potentially want to have and in that regard they can play a very important role .

News

in association with M.C.C.I.A., Pune

presents it’s

4th Summit on Skills Development

“Transforming India - Breaking Barriers in Skill Development”

Venue: 505, A-Wing, MCCIA Trade Tower, 403, Senapati Bapat Rd, Pune, Maharashtra

Date: Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Attendees will include: Government Agencies, Industry Leaders of Major Corporations such as Banks and other financial institutions as well as representatives from well known NGOs and Community based organizations, etc.

For more information please visit our website at www.yuvaparivartan.org

Yuva Parivartan in the media

Christmas Celebration write up in

Dainik Bhaskar

Free Press Journal

In Indore

Yuva Parivartan in the media in Indore

Hindustan Times

The Times of India

Free Press Journal

The Times of India

Hindustan Times

Free Press Journal

YP Team - Always Passionate about Participating

The Yuva Parivartan Team was in active mode by participating in the Mumbai Marathon on January 19, 2014.

QCI (Quality Council of India) Certification and ISO re-Certification

• Nine (9) courses at Yuva Parivartan recently received the QCI certification. This means that the courses were found to meet the required standards for training students in the different courses.

• ISO 9001-2008 re-certification following a clean audit. This means that we continue to have international certification of the quality of management systems present at Yuva Parivartan.

Update on Yuva Parivartan Premier League (YPPL)

The YPPL is our staff reward and recognition programme rewarding high performance behaviours and results from our associates. Currently, the YPPL is being led by the Region 1 (R1) team. In the last season, they won more than 35 prizes. During this period they have amassed more than 60 prizes! R1 won 3 gold coins, 17 silver coins, and more than 40 Letters of Appreciation (LOA) and Parker pens. Hopefully, the other regions will follow R1 example for this season! We wish good luck to all of our associates.

Thank You GSK PULSE Volunteers

• Yuva Parivartan felicitated our two GSK PULSE Volunteers who just completed their six month volunteer assignments with YP. Yolando Sutherland, a Medical Representative from Kingston Jamaica was placed with our Marketing and Communications team as a Marketing and Communications Specialist while Samy Emam a Line Inspector from Cairo, Egypt was placed with our Placement Team as YCI Co-ordinator.

• The PULSE Volunteer Partnership is GSK’s skills-based volunteering initiative. Through PULSE, motivated employees are matched to a non-profit organisation for 3 or 6 months full-time, contributing their skills to solve health care or other challenges at home and abroad. Yolando and Samy went on several field visits to see firsthand how YP impacts the lives of our underprivileged school dropouts in India and used these insights to help in their respective areas while at YP.

• Yuva Parivartan feted and thanked the GSK Volunteers for contributing their time and skills to support our organization. We wish them all the best as they return home.

L-R: Yolando Sutherland, GSK , Rajani Ambedare, Facilitator and Samy Emam, GSK in the Tadoba Tiger Reserve

Yolando Sutherland receives a token of appreciation from Mr. Rajjiv Saigal, COO of Yuva Parivartan at their send off.

Food for Thought

“Every man must decide whether

he will walk in the light of creative

altruism or in the darkness of

destructive selfishness”

– Martin Luther King Jr.

Basic Computer training students at the Chandrapur LDC

YP Initiatives That Changed Their Lives

Mahesh Talsawar,Tally Facilitator…. Developing Young Minds

• Tally Facilitator, Mahesh Tasalwar has been with Yuva Parivartan for two and a half years. He did the MS-CIT computer training from a government institute and then the M.Com (Master of Commerce) degree. The Tally Course teaches the students how to use the accounting software and helps them get jobs/become employable upon completing the course.

• Mahesh notes that as a trainer he faces the challenge of having students that are school drops outs so he has had to motivate them to do this course and to get jobs. He is up to the task though, as he joined an NGO to do social work by helping these school dropouts to obtain a livelihood. Mahesh said “Yuva Parivartan helps to change the lives of these young people.”

Mahesh Talsawar,Tally Facilitator - Chandrapur LDC

Savita Ambedare – Youngest Student at the Tadoba Camp

• Savita Ambedareis the youngest in the camp at 16 years old. The camp team gave the facilitator brochures to distribute in the village. Her aunt Rajani Ambedare is the Facilitator for the camp and she told her about the camp. She joined the camp with the other young ladies in  Tadoba  and was glad to be learning how to cut and sew garments in the class.

• Savita says that she wants to learn as much as she can in order to be able to have a skill to help her and her family financially.

Savita Ambedare,Tailoring Camp, Tadoba

A young man with goals to achieve

Pramod Gupta, 17 years old, lives in Jahangir Puri with his father and brothers. When he was in school he did not understand what he was doing. He saw the Yuva Parivartan banner at a location where he went for a job interview and he went about finding out more about YP and its programmes. He was interested in computers and wanted to learn more about that area so he enrolled in and completed the Basic Computer Course. Fortunately, his father who is a government employee was able to pay for his fees.

He is currently enrolled in the Tally Course and wants to see YP in every city and district in India to offer our full slate of programmes. He would be interested in the prospect of global mobility as he is willing to work outside of India. “I like this place with my heart because it has taken great care of me” – Pramod Gupta.

Pramod Gupta, 17 years oldTally Course – Delhi LDC

Past Students in Limber, Baramulla

• It cannot be easy to grow up in a small village in Limber, Baramulla, Kashmir as there are little or no opportunities to earn a livelihood. Then comes Yuva Parivartan with their mobile rural camp to provide training for some of the young ladies who now that they are trained in Basic Tailoring now have the opportunity to earn an income from the skill they learned at the camp.

• Nine young ladies in the Limber Wildlife Reserve completed the Tailoring Camp in February 2013 and now work by doing job work with Master Tailor Farooq, who was their Facilitator for the course. He is a Master Tailor and has contracts with local schools and hotels to do stitching for them. When he gets these jobs, he involves the ladies who are then paid based on the number of pieces that they sew. Though it is not consistent work, these contracts allow the ladies to contribute to their household income.

Master Tailor, Farooq with six Tailoring past students who now work with him

Did you know? That partnerships are an important part of how we work at YP

Avinash Singh, YP Area Manager, Bihar shares that he visited a camp on his tour of Gaya and met a lady who he considered quite inspirational for others to hear about because of how she has changed her life from adversity while also changing the lives of others by running her Tailoring Centre in partnership with Yuva Parivartan.

That lady is Vilma Devi, who is HIV positive and her husband passed away a few years ago. She had no source of earning an income such as a business, land, etc. However, she did not lose heart and decided to stand on her two feet and started her own tailoring centre called Rani Silai Centre. Today she is running her center in collaboration with YP and she is very happy with the partnership thus far as together they are helping the youth to improve their lot in life.

Did you know? That we have started a Yuva Parivartan HelplineYuva Parivartan Helpline for students was recently started by the Counselling Team. We will help students with :

• Vocational Guidance• Emotional Issues • Psychological Problems • Nervousness• Lack of Confidence• Study Guidance • Lack of Concentration