• SAMBHAVANA LEARNING CENTRE

    Secondary education and prevention of child marriage for out-of-school adolescent girls in rural India

    Each year, 23% of girls in India are married before they turn 18—representing approximately 1.5 million girls annually. This practice often comes at the cost of their education, health, and future opportunities. Research demonstrates that ensuring just a 1% increase in girls' secondary school enrollment could boost India's GDP by $5.5 billion. YouthInvest runs Sambhavana Learning Centres to give out-of-school adolescent girls a second chance at resuming education, pursuing skills training, and improving life skills—giving them the opportunity to build a better life for themselves and their communities.

  • Who we are

    YouthInvest Foundation is an Indian not-for-profit organisation with a mission to empower children and young people in reaching their full potential and leading productive lives. We envision healthy, educated, emotionally well-adjusted, and skilled adolescents and youth, especially from marginalised and disadvantaged populations, entering adulthood.

    We work in partnership with the government, local communities, and the private sector to strengthen youth participation in the development process and bring about sustainable change in education and skills training, health and nutrition, and life skills development of children and young people.

    We currently reach out to:

    • 1000 plus young people through our education and skills training programme.
    • 35,000 plus adolescents through our life skills development programme.
    • 11,00,000 plus children and adolescents through our health and nutrition programme.

    What we do

    We work in domains of education and skills training; health and nutrition; as well as youth leadership and life skills development, focusing on critical life stages, i.e., childhood, adolescence and youth, to ensure sustainable change.

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    Education and skills training for adolescents and youths

    • We aim to increase access to foundational and secondary education and job-readiness skills among underprivileged adolescents and youths, resulting in increased higher education and job-readiness, thus improving their life choices and preventing child marriage among girls.
    • Our education and skills training programme is currently operational in Jharkhand and West Bengal.
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    Health, nutrition & WASH for children and adolescents

    • We work in rural areas and urban slums in communities and schools to prevent childhood malnutrition, reduce iron-deficiency anaemia, ensure better reproductive & sexual health outcomes, and positive lifestyle & wellness practices, safe water & sanitation (WASH) practices, resulting in improved health and nutrition of children and young people.
    • Programme is operational in West Bengal, Jharkhand and Assam
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    Youth leadership and life skills development

    • We work in communities and schools to build confidence, agency, resilience and leadership skills among young people, leading to their increased self-esteem and social-emotional skills; enhanced awareness of gender-egalitarian values and rights; and increased access to services and opportunities.
    • Programme is operational in West, Assam and Jharkhand.
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    Where we work

    We currently work in West Bengal, Assam and Jharkhand.

    Districts

    West Bengal: Kolkata, Howrah, Hooghly, Paschim Medinipur

    Assam: Kamrup, Baksa, Barpeta, Darrang, Goalpara, Hailakandi, Udalguri, Dhubri, Kamrup Metro, Nalbari, Morigaon

    Jharkhand: Ranchi

  • Contact us

     

    7th Floor, DaftarIndia Coworking, Express Trade Tower 2, Sector 132, Noida, Uttar Pradesh 201301
    +91-9811111882
    +91-9811111882
    info@youthinvestfoundation.org
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