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ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT
Entrepreneurship development plays a vital role in driving economic growth, generating employment opportunities, and fostering innovation. By nurturing entrepreneurial skills, individuals are empowered to turn ideas into viable enterprises, contribute to local economies, and solve community-specific problems with sustainable solutions. Recognizing the transformative potential of entrepreneurship, the Ubantu Foundation has taken significant strides in promoting entrepreneurship development at the grassroots level. The Foundation actively works to empower aspiring and existing entrepreneurs through structured training programs tailored to their needs. Through these efforts, the Foundation is fostering a culture of innovation and resilience, contributing to inclusive and community-driven development.
Skill Development
The Ubantu Foundation has started training centres for building capacities of the youth and women from the marginalized sections of society in Goa, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh. These initiatives focus on equipping women with vocational skills in trades like soap and candle making, stitching, baking, bioenzyme, etc. The trainees are also being taught skills to use social media and e-commerce for business promotion and other market-relevant skills. By doing so, the Foundation enables women to become self-sufficient, confident, and better prepared to pursue sustainable livelihoods. Through these programs, women and youth gain both practical knowledge and entrepreneurial skills, empowering them to initiate or strengthen their own income-generating ventures.
Livelihood Development
Livelihood development is key to ensuring long-term economic stability and improved quality of life, particularly in underserved communities. The Ubantu Foundation places a strong emphasis on fostering sustainable livelihood generation through a holistic, community-driven approach.
The Ubantu Foundation had designed a novel ‘Samanvita’ (a Sanskrit word meaning inclusion and women empowerment) program with the objective of reaching out to disadvantaged sections of society and providing them livelihood opportunities in sustainable manner. On 20th October 2019, the pilot project under ‘Samanvita’ program, was launched by Shri Shripad Naik, Hon’ble Minister of State (Independent Charge) for AYUSH, Government of India in the presence of Chairperson, Zilla Parishad (District Council), Sarpanch (Chairperson) and elected representatives of the village panchayat. Hon’ble Minister appreciated the Samanvita program for empowering communities in remote areas with a promise to support the program under MPLADS (Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme) of the Government of India to replicate the project in other villages.
The success story of the pilot project of the Samanvita program has given a ray of hope to the SHGs in Goa and other states. Ubantu Foundation has run awareness campaigns on public health and menstruation in colleges and the SHG network across Goa.
Cooperative Development
Cooperative development plays a crucial role in promoting collective growth, economic resilience, and social empowerment. By bringing individuals together to pool resources, share responsibilities, and work towards common goals, cooperatives and SHGs foster inclusive development and financial stability—especially in rural and underserved communities.
The Ubantu Foundation is organizing training programs and awareness sessions to highlight the objectives and advantages of cooperatives and providing handholding support to the interested groups in registration of cooperative societies. Ubantu Foundation is also working to build capacities of the members of the newly-formed cooperative societies in business development and establishing livelihood enterprises. In addition to this, Ubantu Foundation has adopted multi-purpose cooperative societies in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Delhi, West Bengal and other states to provide technical support for achieving their business goals.
