GarvSe Center: Strengthen PwD livelihood ecosystem; Work with multiple stakeholders; Replicate and scale nationwide

Enable India has embarked upon an outreach plan to strengthen livelihood ecosystem for PwD at various villages, towns, and cities across the country. These livelihood ecosystems will be built and driven by GarvSe Centers which will be the nodal center in the region to connect and work with all the stakeholders of PWD.

GarvSe Center (GSC) is a nodal center which strengthens the livelihood ecosystem of PwD through collaborating with stakeholders such as local Government, NGOs, Educational Institutions, Skilling partners, Volunteers, Parents of PwD, Employers, and any other relevant stakeholders to leverage their expertise and support for providing livelihood opportunities for PwD in the region.

As of date, there are 8 operational GarvSe Centers:

GarvSe - University Connect Program – Mysuru and Lucknow
GarvSe – Swashakti-Rural Livelihood Program – Gadag, Koppal, Bengaluru Rural, and Hassan
GarvSe - Sabal – Noamundi
GarvSe – Corporate – Bengaluru City

GarvSe Partners

Logos: Allegis, BD Tatti, CMSSS, GASS, JSS PDA, Smarthya, Tata Steel Foundation; RSETI

University Connect Program

The goal of the University Connect Program is to provide college students with disability employment awareness and training to help them in their journey of economic independence. The program uses the power of collective by including all relevant stakeholders in creating employable pool of PwD at colleges.

Center locations:

Mysuru, Karnataka (in partnership with JSS Polytechnic for the Differently Abled)
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh

Over the years, the UCP has worked across 10 colleges, impacting 2500+ students through awareness and training programs, resulting in 500+ placements in across 80+ companies.

Swashakti – Rural Livelihood Program

The Rural Livelihood Program aims at providing rural livelihoods for Persons with Disability (PwDs) in the state of Karnataka. This campaign fosters ownership and collaboration among disability NGOs and other stakeholders working at a grass-root level promoting further collaborations to ensure growth and sustainability.

The 4 rural GarvSe Centers are:

Gadag (in partnership with Shri B D Tatti (A) Memorial Charitable Trust)
Koppal (in partnership with Samarthya)
Bengaluru Rural (in partnership with GASS- Gramina Abyudaya Seva Samsthe)
Hassan (in partnership with CMSSS- Chikamagaluru Social Service Society)

By jointly operating GarvSe Centers with partner organizations, the reach via awareness and self-employment programs is over 3563 PwDs and their stakeholders across the 4 centers.

Sabal

SABAL - Centre for Abilities is a joint initiative of Tata Steel Foundation and Enable India to transform lives of people with disabilities through need based training, enhance the capacity of their trainers through Training of Trainers, create awareness and promote inclusiveness.

Center location

Noamundi, Jharkhand (in partnership with Tata Steel Foundation)

Since its inception, SABAL has touched people’s lives across 10 states. Which is by strengthening the PwD livelihood ecosystem through ToTs, awareness workshops for close to 400 trainers and NGO staff, and disability sensitisation & capacity building activities for over 3500 PwD stakeholders. Additionally, the center has directly trained PwDs for securing employment.

Corporate

The Corporate GarvSe Center housed within a Corporate entity aims to draw the attention of the Corporate community to the work that has already happened in this space and encourages them to hire professionals with disability into their workspaces.

Center location

Bengaluru City (in partnership with Allegis Group India)

The center at Allegis (a global talent management firm with a major presence across India in the recruiting and staffing space) has acted as a natural extension of the work that Allegis Group has been championing in this space. Several executives, across the board the Corporate sector have accessed the center and a number of candidates have been counselled at the center. Allegis has been a long-term partner of Enable India to support employability efforts for persons with disability.

“Thanks to Enable India for guiding students in attaining livelihood means and JRD University is always ready to cooperate with EI for related activities in future. Requesting EI for more such career shaping activities for other disabilities too”

Vice Chancellor JRD University, Chitrakoot, UP

"Enable India has introduced me to and trained me on the skills that are required in the current market. Thank you for helping me become qualified in those skills and be competitive in the society

– An employed student (Deaf) from Mysuru region

"I have walked miles to meet with the govt. officials, on several occasions. I may or may not have received responses on expected lines. Thanks to Jagruthi Mela, I met with all of whom concerned under one roof, and got all my queries answered."

- PwD after attending the Jagruti Mela at Bengaluru Rural

"After the EDP training I started farming and successfully availed a bank loan. I had few difficulties initially, but with the support of people around me I have overcome it. I have now expanded by business and learning new things everyday. Now I tell my story to other EDP trainees."

- EDP Trainee from Gadag