Dear All
In continuation to the earlier posting, conducted the workshop on REDP for the Rural Youth of the Krishna District on 3rd April 2013 at SREES Office at Ramavarappadu Circle Ring.
The brief info on the workshops is as follows:
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REDP
WORKSHOP AT SREES ORGANIZATION
Understanding
the needs and employment issues of the rural youth of Krishna District, SREES
Organization has conducted Workshop on “Rural Entrepreneurship Development
Programme” on 3rd at its office at Ramavarappadu Ring Centre. This
is the shift from the traditional way of looking livelihoods which are mostly
by way of getting traditional employment in the established sectors.
This
programme is focussed on understanding the SWOT of the rural youth, challenges
and opportunities for employment, community mapping, availability of resources,
need of technology, process of production & marketing, concept &
preparation of project, getting linkages for input supports including finance.
Group discussion among the participants emerged the areas in which they are
interested to move forward to be entrepreneur with better solutions. Some of
the significant areas includes: water, solar power, bakery, Xerox, sari
painting, general merchant, health care, care centre for senior citizens and
other allied activities.
Giving
priority for the need based areas, water and solar power has been selected and
explained the total procedure starting from the concept, design, machinery,
manpower, training, services, establishment, budget support, linkages with the
Government & financial institutions, monitoring & evaluation, risks
& ways for its minimization, and expected benefits / outcomes. Later
briefly explained the success models implemented in other parts of Andhra
Pradesh which made the participants to believe their strengths and got
motivated to move forward. From this workshop 50 participants got the benefit
and majority of them accepted to initiate in this direction.
This
workshop is supported by the management & staff of SREES, and Smt. N Padma
Shree, Director; G Sudheer Babu, Coordinator; N Lakshmi Narayana, Director of
Geo Rehabilitation Centre, Hyderabad; N Balaji, Managing Director of Chilli
Growers Cooperative Society, Hyderabad have contributed significantly.
This
is the good beginning and SREES will be organizing several such workshops for
the benefit of rural youth. SREES is open to listen form the people for
developing need based training modules so that they can be empowered to lead
better living with sustainability.
“SREES
believes in empowerment of the people with rights based strategies for improved
quality of life”
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Looking forward to conduct more such workshops ..
All the best.