Employment Cell

  • Employment Cell initiative, funded by Lifeforce Charitable Trust.
  • Target group is unemployed youths who are easy prey to blandishments of poachers and logging contractors.
  • Focus is to provide village youths with alternative livelihood options to reduce their dependence on forests.
  • Project seeks to provide direct employment as well as enhance skills of candidates to enable them to go in for self-employment.
  • Between June 2007 and October 2007, jobs provided to 32 youths from Pench cluster.
  • Workshops on alternative livelihood for 58 youths since June.
  • Schedule of skill-enhancement workshops in place for coming months.
  • Candidates will be provided with training in areas like making food products, running eco-tourism units, making soap, incense sticks, candles, clothes.
  • Employment Cell currently focusing on Pench Cluster and will expand activities to other Tiger Reserves in coming months.
  • Conducted surveys in all villages on level of unemployment, livelihood issues and opportunities for self-employment within our area of operations.
  • Since 2008, the Foundation has held placement workshops / programmes through which 600 unemployed youths have obtained jobs with local hotels / resorts, at nearby urban centres and at Nagpur.
  • Since 2008, we have organised 65 training programmes or capacity-building workshops to help village youths find alternative livelihood.
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Kanha - Santosh Yadav, of Khisi, who got a job with our help at Pug Mark Resort, Khatiya.
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Kanha, Bhagpur - Amit speaks to members of Sithala and Sharada SHGs on self-employment opportunities.
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Pench (Mah), Ghatpendari - Bandu helps new recruits of STPF identify pug marks.
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Pench (Mah), Ghatpendari - Bandu shows STPF trainees how to locate nets used for illegal fishing.
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Pench (Mah), Ghatpendari - Bandu teaches technique of making plaster cast of pug mark to new recruits of STPF.
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Pench (Mah), Kirangisarra - Geeta Dhurve, who is hearing- and speech-impaired, and SF's Anoop hold up her handiwork.
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Pench (Mah), Sillari - Villagers learn from SF's Mandar about printing images on T-shirts, caps and mugs for sale to tourists.
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Tadoba - 5 youths from Bhagwanpur who were identified by us for training in livelihood options at Aurangabad.
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Tadoba, Moharli - Awareness programme on self-employment (tailoring) for women held at our office.

Livelihood Success Stories

  • Lantana product sales have generated over 15000 rupees.
  • Villagers, whom we encouraged to take up vegetable farming, are earning 500-1200 rupees a week in additional income.
  • Village boy progresses from helper to receptionist - Anirudh Shrivas of Pathari (Pench M.P.) started as a helper at Mrignainee Resort at a monthly salary of 1500 rupees. He is now a receptionist at the same resort and earns 7000 rupees a month.
  • From helper to storekeeper - Deepak Mularwar of Ghatpendari started as a helper with Tuli Tiger Corridor at a monthly salary of 1200 rupees. He is now a storekeeper at the same resort and earns 5000 a month.
  • Ramsa Uikey of Ghatpendri trained as four-wheeler driver through our programme has bought a second hand jeep to ferry villagers.
  • Hemant Thakre of Pipariya trained by us as four wheeler driver has got job at MTDC, Sillari as a driver.
  • Village boy is now assistant chef at star hotel - Sevakram Verma of Pathari (Pench M.P.) started as a helper at Tuli Tiger Corridor Resort, Turia at a monthly salary of 1200 rupees. He is now assistant chef at Hotel Tuli International, Nagpur and earns 7000 rupees a month.
  • Lantana product sales have generated over 15000 rupees.
  • Pench (M P), Telia - Village kids compete for time on computer in our IT education initiative.
Villagers, whom we encouraged to take up vegetable farming, are earning 500-1200 rupees a week in additional income.
Tribal dance group formed and mentored by us has earned over 106,000 rupees in four years.
Pench (Mah), Sawara - Children learn computers in our IT education initiative.