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TALHero™ India Award 2024

Chlorophyll for Good Rebranding Competition 2024

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Every youth with disability will be poverty free, Independent & Confident

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Who we are

Youth 4 Jobs Foundation is an action organisation with a heart working to ensure youth with disabilities can be poverty-free in India. Our focus is on building resilient livelihoods for both youth with disabilities, with a focus on the most vulnerable, women with disabilities. Towards this, we partner with governments, markets, and civil society to remove physical and attitudinal barriers and enable the scaling of evidence-based effective solutions. It is led by Meera Shenoy who has the unique experience of working in senior government positions, World Bank and UNDP. This transformational work has won several national and international awards.

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SwarajAbility - A jobs platform for Persons with Disabilities

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Our Footprint

As per Census 2011

As per census 2011 in India about 26.8 million persons are ‘disabled’ which is 2.21% of the total population. Every 1 in 12 households has a disability. World Bank reports state that the number may be actually three times more, about 60 to 70 million.

Children with disabilities

There are 7.8 million children with disabilities, 72% in the rural areas, 28% in the urban areas. According to the 2014 National Survey of Out of School Children report, some 600,000 (28%) special-needs children between six and 13 years of age are out of school.

Employment

Employment rates of persons with disability are barely 30% and mostly in the unorganized sector. This varies with geographical location (urban or rural), gender, education, and type of disability. According to 2011 Census of India, 68% of India lives in rural areas. The rural disabled are significantly disconnected from skills and markets. There are several barriers for people with disabilities to enter the labour market

Accessibility

Only 34% of households with a disabled member reported having access to public facilities.

Youth 4 Jobs' work helps achieve SDG Goals

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Chlorophyll for Good Rebranding Competition

2024

TALHero™ India Award 2024

2024

D4GX Bloomberg Grant 2024

2024

NASSCOM Foundation TechForGood Award 2024

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WEDO : INVISIBLE TO VISIBLE Women entrepreneurs with disability STORIES from South Asia

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WEDO : INVISIBLE TO VISIBLE Women entrepreneurs with disability STORIES from India

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Aravind R | Disability – Deaf | Chennai – India

The Spirit of God

The Story behind the Shot:

Aravind is from Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He is passionate about photographing subjects related to culture and human faces. He has 3 years of experience in professional photography and uses a Cannon 1500 Camera. Aravind says, “3 years ago I meet Mr. Srivatsan in Chennai who founded a photo blog. For a year I learned more about photography from him”. Now Aravind looks forward to showing his skills to the world.

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