Youth Empowerment

Youth empowerment is a process where young people are encouraged to take charge of their lives. Our youth empowerment activities addresses the obstacles the rural youths face and accordingly we take steps to improve their access to resources and opportunities to transform their aptitude & ability as socially useful and productive persons through their values, and attitudes. Most importantly we focus on economic empowerment of youths through skill training.

Training to Panchayatiraj Members

As an empaneled organisation of the State Institute of Rural Development (SIRD), Govt. of Odisha, imparting capacity development training on different topics to the elected PRIs in both residential and non-residential mode since 2014-15. The duration of each batch of training is varies from 3 days to 5 days. SIRD Empanelled Trainers have been imparting training to the PRIs, on Good Governance, Transparency and Accountability, Different welfare schemes of line department, GPDP etc. The organization conducted more than 58 batches of training to the PRIs.

Training Youths on employable skill

AIRA has launched vocational skilling of youth since 1998-99. The objective was to train youth from economically disadvantaged backgrounds (age 18‐25 years) and provide them with employable skill, coupled with access to employment and entrepreneurship opportunities. Today AIRA vocational training programs across the districts of Dhenkanal, Jajpur and Sambalpur enable youth to access entry-level positions and placements in different vocations. By end of March-2020, 4350 young people were reached in 2019-2020, and the youth were trained and subsequently facilitated placement in entry level jobs or helped to start their own enterprise.
As a mandate, AIRA imparts different vocational training to unemployed youths in different trades across its area of operation. A chunk of such trained youths are physically handicapped. The trades include Computer Application, IT& ITES, Type & Shorthand, Electronics & Electrical Repairing, Photography & Videography, Beauty Therapy, Retail, Tourism & Hospitality, Applique, Tailoring & dress making, Agarbati Making, Phenyl Making, Terracotta, Bamboo Craft, Bicycle Repairing, Vehicle Driving, Mushroom Cultivation, Floriculture& Floral Design etc.
The organization during post training stage offers proper backward and forward linkage with concerned organization and Job Mela, Loan Mela and Career counseling Mela. The rate of post training self employment and salaried employment is above 80% and therefore encouraging.

Youth Empowerment

Youth empowerment is a process where children and young people are encouraged to take charge of their lives. AIRA engages in empowering the youth and adolescents in developing their capacities to manage their own lives, helps them to develop a sense of belongingness, manage conflict situations, solve their problems and so more so to march towards a better life; a healthy and dignified life. AIRA imparts Life Skill Education to adolescents, holds Adolescent Reproductive and Sexual Health Camps. The organisation also conducts events of adventure-sports to draw out the competing aspect in their lives.
In addition to the above, AIRA imparts vocational education and takes necessary steps for post training rehabilitation. Vocational training include different trades that have a potential for gainful employment, either wage-based or self-employment.
AIRA also conducts Second Chance Camp for adolescents, Adolescent Girls Meet, Leadership Development and Youth Adventure Camp for youth and adolescents. By now 1100 youths, both boys and girls are empowered being covered or accommodated under the above activities.