Karuvi foundation helps for the Youth Empowerment and Skill Development

Empowerment of youth is a process through which they  experience a sense of control over their lives, making choices and making informed decisions. Younger people feel they are experiencing an empowerment process when they feel listened to, understood and feel they can make decisions for themselves thus having control over their own lives. As the term suggests, youth empowerment means acquiring power, when we talk about power we do not mean the exercise of one dominion over the other, rather we are talking about all those ways in which they manage to exert an influence on the other, therefore of a increased influence in social relationships at all levels of these relationships, from those of a couple to those between a person and a group.

What actually is Skill Development and what are the impacts it creates among youth?

Faced with the profound changes that, in recent decades, have affected the labor market, how can we help people - and above all young people - to relate, in the best possible way, with this context, inter alia in continuous and fast transformation?

From many quarters it is suggested to also acquire "transversal skills" - to be continuously strengthened - and to combine them at best with one's own technical skills. In general, technical skills (also called hard skills) are those necessary to carry out a certain activity or profession; the basic theoretical technical skills are acquired in a path of education and / or professional training, while their operational deepening takes place through practical experience in the workplace (internships, traineeships, actual work).

The transversal skills (soft skills) represent, instead, personal knowledge, skills and qualities that characterize the way of being of each person in the study, at work and in daily life. Precisely for this reason they are called "transversal", because they do not refer to technical areas or specific knowledge of a subject of study, but they call into question all those aspects of the personality and knowledge that everyone uses every day in different contexts.

Cross-cutting skills emerge when making decisions, when trying to get out of a difficult situation, when trying to change things you don't like, when you are with others, every time you have to learn something new. They are, for example, the ability to communicate one's thoughts well to others, to relate correctly to people respecting their different roles, to work in a group, to be flexible, to be proactive. Karuvi foundation have dealt with the topic of both transversal and technical skills, calling them in various ways; this section of the guide will refer to those identified within, but it is possible to find a more comprehensive picture of the various definitions in part of the guide dedicated to this theme.

Karuvi foundation is always forward for taking actions to strengthen the key technical and professional skills of the unemployed youth and also for the young people with disabilities. Our Karuvi Foundation's Youth Strategical goal is improved in terms of accessibility, visibility and impact to ensure better participation of young people. To many of us the concept of Transversal and Technical Skills is still quite unknown, although they are considered indispensable in world. The list of these skills is long and includes social and communication skills, emotional intelligence and problem solving, adaptability, intercultural work and job specific skills that are merely hard skills.
Unfortunately, it is not easy for schools or media to offer them the right space to develop these skills: if in schools, teachers have an obligation to complete programs and prepare students for exams and often there is no time to explore these life skills.

We, the Karuvi foundation, precisely for this reason, do this wonderful task through Mr. J. Gokulnath. B.E., who is an exceptional entrepreneurial engineering  pro. He helps children who are in need of the opportunity to get to know and develop transversal skills which may not have been sufficiently studied in school.

He helps young people to enlighten themselves with the transversal and technical skills and also guiding them to choose the exact platform to leap to the very heights. Mostly, youth who are living in under developed parts of the state i.e., young people living in slums, unschooled, discontinued, orphanages, rehabilitation centers. He is also helping youth with physical disabilities to learn the comprehensive stock of knowledge to work in a corporate milieu.

For more information, please drop a line to: info@karuvifoundation.in