Parul Mehra

Established as a not-for-profit organisation in January 2006, ETASHA (Enabling and Training Adolescents for Successful and Healthy Adulthood) provides market-oriented employability and vocational skills to disadvantaged Indian youth (aged 15-30 years). Our career guidance workshops and short-term training programmes equip them for entry-level jobs in the organised sector, in industries such as retail, accounting, hospitality and business process outsourcing. Believing that 'teaching how to fish is better than giving fish to eat'​, ETASHA trains underprivileged youth in market-oriented employability skills and helps place them at the start of a career and a meaningful job. Strengthened by our positive living skills and social confidence, these youngsters enter a world of possibilities...of meaningful work... and life... Other programmes include Career Guidance for school going adolescents; Training of ITI trainers and trainees; Women's Entrepreneurship Programme to enable women from low-resource settings to be financially independent.