ABOUT US

YOUTH EMPOWERMENT FOUNDATION OF INDIA (YEFI) , NATIONAL COUNCIL OF VOCATIONAL AND RESEARCH TRAINING (NCVRT)

Youth Empowerment Foundation Of India (YEFI) is registered by Indian Trust Act 1882, NGO durban. Also registered as a training provider under skill india or the national skills development mission of india is a campaign launched by the Prime Minister. Megala Vocational Training Center Unites Of YEFI Accredited By The National Council Of Vocational And Research Training (NCVRT). Megala Typewriting Institute which supported by YEFI is approved by the Directorate of Technical Education (DOTE), Government of Tamilnadu.

As a youth empowerment organization that works towards youth empowerment by awareness raising and capacity building, Rights and Participatory based leadership on issues of health equity, gender justice, sexual reproductive health rights, and inclusive education.

Under our major activity we have created a platform for rural and urban young people to get opportunities to acquire quality technical and vocational training to get a better job to increase their household income.

YEFI ensures that young people have the information, capacity, opportunities to inform and lead the development and implementation of programmes and policies that impact their lives and are recognised as skilled and aware leaders of social change.

Our Values

We do not discriminate on the grounds of sex, religion, caste, ability, age, class, gender identity, sexual orientation, employment, socio-economic status, or any other Health status.
We believe that every person’s human rights should be respected, affirmed, and fulfilled; empowered youth can ensure and carry forward to the next generation.
We strive to affirm agency and ensure social inclusion and Participation.
We use a youth led and intersectional lens to guide our work that considers how individual identity may overlap into multiple disadvantaged groups.
We work with same ideological partners, organisations, agencies, Government Department make immediate change in youth lives.
We stipulate all youngsters’ voices should be heard and everyone’s right to choose should be actively and substantially affirmed.
We are accountable to our vision and mission, to each other, and to the young people with whom we work.
Accessible Health Services – Increasing access by assessing the quality, barriers, and youth friendliness of health services.
Alternative Media – Building leadership in Alternative Media to raise awareness on priorities social issues.
Adolescent Health – Ensuring the inclusion of adolescent and youth voices in programming and policy development on adolescent health and well being.
Comprehensive Sexuality Education – Ensuring awareness about and access to sexual and reproductive health services and rights.
Masculinities – Enabling conversations with young men to critically analyse patriarchal norms of masculinity, and gender based violence.
Meaningful Youth Participation – Ensuring meaningful participation in the development, implementation and monitoring of programmes and policies.
Mental Health and Wellbeing – Creating youth leadership in providing and destigmatising mental health services.

Future Plan for Next Five Years

500 youngsters will complete their vocational trainings in our MEGALA Vocational Training Center and 80% of them 400 youngsters placed at preferred jobs.
400 youngsters will do their technical education in our MEGALA Typewriting and Computer Training Institute 50 of them will get placed in govt. jobs.
200 youngsters have been evolve as a leaders by our activities (workshops on life skills, observing special days, Club activities by community youth and knowledge center activities)
700 of RTI petitions and other Grievance petitions, community studies, fact findings, Gramsabha resolutions, youth conference resolutions have been submits and shared to the key stakeholders.
2000 youngsters informed about various government schemes, entitles by MEGALA e-service.

History

YEFI were laid with the realisation that working with youth and working for youth, they can make measurable changes.
Young people across all sections of society have a strong capacity to engage with issues that matter to them, but are frequently undermined in their attempts to do so. YEFI came together as a youth-led space for deeper commitment with social reality with the hope that this may inspire social change leadership by young people.

Mission

To build and influence young people’s leadership, on technical education and vocational training, life skills, civic participation, adolescent health education and other information on their holistic development.

Vision

All the young people’s being developed in holistic, their participation and leadership on identifying and addressing their own community issues.

Theory of Change

We empower young people by awareness raising, access to information, services, and leadership opportunities, thereby enabling them to deliver their meaning participation on their own lives and their community development.