ETASHA

ETASHA, short for Enabling and Training Adolescents for a Successful and Healthy Adulthood, is a Non-Government Organization established in January 2006 by Dr. Meenakshi Nayar. The Society was established to provide job-linked training and placement to youth from low-resource communities. Dr. Nayar’s inspiration to start ETASHA came from a career guidance workshop she conducted in a resettlement colony in Delhi, where she recognized the immense potential of these young people. However, she also saw the challenges they faced, including limited training opportunities and financial constraints, which prevented them from accessing organized-sector jobs.

Since its inception, ETASHA has expanded its focus from youth to working with adolescents, older women and since 2019 to focusing on the entire community. This is based on our experience and learning that sustained employment in the formal sector requires a major shift in the mind-set of the young person, which can only be sustained with support from parents as well as all other influencers in the community. So, the mind-set of the community needs to change and targeted interventions need to be undertaken for the purpose.