The Goal is to diversify family income so that the family can cope with droughts. – (farm based, off-farm and non-farm)
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Goal
- The goal of AF Youth Centre is to provide employable skills to under educated rural youth and link them to employment or self employment thereby elevate their social status, self-respect and dignity.
- The AF Youth centre trains more than 600 youth every year and facilitates employment opportunities for them.
Started in: April 2008
About
The issues concerning the rural areas is the dependency on agricultural income to access everything from food over education to health care. The scope of increasing real income of farmers and bringing sustained improvement in their well being, solely through farming operations, is seriously constrained considering the harsh climatic conditions in Ananthapur district. Due to minimal rains and the consequences it brings, many children of farming families migrate to cities in search of labor opportunities, leaving aging parents and other family members behind. This development leads to major socio-economical shifts, which might bring immediate financial benefits but do not help the farming communities over time.
AF has engaged in supporting the community through two alternative programmes:
3 driving schools have well-equipped infrastructure with latest, sectionized models, visual and audio visual aids. It follows the course curriculum as recommended by the transport department in order to train in theory and practice and produce professional drivers who are guided by experienced and qualified principal and driving instructors. The practice vehicles include jeeps, cars, TATA Sumo and Lorry for HMV practice.
Theory and practical, learning is imparted on driving, maintenance, trouble shooting aspects of automobiles as well as legal and road safety aspects. Trainees are given practice sessions on three types of light motor vehicles, keeping their future placements in view. Furthermore, th course also include coaching modules on spoken English, personality development and first-aid.
Priority for Women trainees:
AF is committed to promote the gender equity in all aspects of the organisational programmes. In order to encourage the rural women in skill based non-farm employment and promote their economic independence, the AF has been striving hard to train the rural women in LMV and auto driving. Thus, the women’s livelihoods were facilitated to own their autos or vans and earn, breaking the monopoly of men in transport driving profession.
Facilitation of employment and or self-employment:
AF facilitates employment opportunities for the trained candidates by linking them to prospective employees. The other option is to support self-employment opportunities by linking the trained persons to banks and government agencies for credit support.
- Coming soon
Number of vocational skill development:
| S.No. | Trades | Male | Female | Total |
| 1 | ITES (Information Technology Enabled Services | 82 | 76 | 158 |
| 2 | CRS (Customer Relation and Sales) | 66 | 85 | 151 |
| 3 | HSPT (Hospitality Services) | 69 | 9 | 78 |
| 4 | MSW (Multi Skilled Worker, Electrician cum Motor Rewinding) | 44 | 0 | 44 |
| 5 | Auto Mobile (Two -wheeler) | 12 | 0 | 12 |
| 6 | BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) | 14 | 5 | 19 |
| 7 | LMV Driving | 1950 | 114 | 2064 |
| 8 | HMV Driving | 253 | 03 | 256 |
| 9 | Two Wheeler mechanic | 122 | – | 122 |
| 10 | Cell phone mechanic | 86 | – | 86 |
| 8 | Auto Driving (Women) | – | 101 | 101 |
| 9 | Garment Making | 0 | 166 | 166 |
| 10 | Employed through job melas | 21 | ||
| TOTAL | 2698 | 393 | 3091 |
Summary of achievements in AF Youth Centre since inception in June 2008 to March 2022
| Sl.No. | Institution / Trade | SC | ST | Others | Total trained | Total employed or self employed | Remarks | ||
| 1 | AF Driving School, (LMV) Anantapur | 530 | 77 | 635 | 1242 | 684 | June 2006 to March 2022 | ||
| 2 | AF Driving School, (LMV) Kalyandurg | 526 | 55 | 438 | 1019 | 670 | June 2006 to March 2022 | ||
| 3 | AF Driving School (HMV) Anantapur | 81 | 21 | 145 | 256 | 153 | 2011 to March 2022 | ||
| 4 | Two Wheeler mechanic Kalyandurg & Anantapur | 59 | 02 | 61 | 122 | 80 | 2017 to March 2022 | ||
| 5 | Cell phone mechanic Kalyandurg | 30 | 02 | 54 | 86 | 64 | 2017 to March 2022 | ||
| 6 | Auto Driving for women | 50 | 05 | 46 | 101 | 25 | 2015 to March 2022 | ||
| TOTAL | 1152 | 147 | 1321 | 2629 | 1619 |
Garment Making
| S.No. | Name of the Mandal | No. of villages | Total trained members | Total employed |
| 1 | Kalyandurg | 9 | 121 | 99 |
| 2 | Beluguppa | 6 | 90 | 67 |
| Total | 15 | 211 | 166 | |
JLG support from Bank
| S.No. | Name of the Mandal | No. of Villages | Garment Total Member | Dairy Total member | Total amount in Rs. |
| 1 | Kalyandurg | 6 | 39 | – | 3,90,000 |
| 2 | Beluguppa | 9 | 125 | – | 22,50,000 |
| 3 | Settur | 4 | 52 | – | 5,20,000 |
| 4 | Dharmavaram | 3 | – | 54 | 16,20,000 |
| 5 | Atmakur & Rapthadu | 2 | – | 50 | 25,00,000 |
| TOTAL | 24 | 216 | 104 | 72,80,000 | |
Job Melas
AF Youth Resource Centre maintenance data base of rural un employed youth and regularly conducts job fairs bringing together the unemployed youth and employing firms together on a job fair platform.
Companies / Organisations participated and hired through job fair as on March 2022:
The/Nudge Foundation, Apollo Hospital, Dr.Reddy’s Laboratories, HCL, Navagurukul, ICICI Bank, Muthoot Finance, Amararaja Group, KIMS Saveera Hospital, Unnati Foundation, Suguna Foods Pvt., Ltd., SELCO Solar, Capgemini, EduBridge, TATA strive, GooglePay, BYJU’S, SBI Cards etc.,
| S.NO. | Job Melas Conducted | Total Participants | Total selected | Total Joined |
| 1 | Anantapur & Kalyandurg | 1200 | 401 | 225 |
Small / Micro Business
| S.No. | Name of the Mandal | No. of villages | Total Women members |
| 1 | Kalyandurg | 9 | 24 |
| 2 | Rapthadu | 1 | 15 |
| 3 | Kuderu | 2 | 12 |
| 4 | Beluguppa | 4 | 35 |
| 5 | Kundurpi | 4 | 29 |
| 6 | Setturu | 6 | 34 |
| 7 | Dharmavaram | 3 | 31 |
| Total | 29 | 180 |
Our Project Areas
- Kalyandurg
- Beluguppa
- Kudair
- Atmakur
- Rapthadu
- Dharmavaram
- Settur
- Kundurpi