Schoolnet and YuWaah at UNICEF partner to help India’s youth achieve their dreams / aspirations
National, 03 January 2022: Schoolnet India Ltd., a unique, innovative, and leading EdTech company, today ann ounced its partnership with YuWaah at UNICEF to connect Indian young people with aspirational work oppor tunities and engage them as active changemakers. YuWaah has come together with public, private sector part ners and young people to establish a network to catalyze this impact.
YuWaah (Generation Unlimited in India) at UNICEF is a globally and locally incubated platform hosted with UNI CEF as a multi stakeholder partnerships platform. Their aim is to connect around 100 million Indian youth with aspirational economic opportunities for productive lives and future employment, facilitate 200 mn young peopl e to gain relevant skills for productive lives and the future of work. And engage 300 million young people as acti ve changemakers and create spaces for their leadership development by 2030.
Through the partnership, Schoolnet will take on an active role in supporting YuWaah to meet our common goals within the larger mandates of respective organizations. Together we will work to leverage the existing mainstre amed initiatives of both organisations at the national and state level. This will enable us to co-create and implem ent solutions at scale to tackle the employment, skilling, and civic participation challenges faced by young peop le of India.
Commenting on the collaboration, RCM Reddy, Managing Director and CEO, Schoolnet: “We are delighted to be associated with YuWaah at UNICEF and look forward to a fruitful collaboration that is aimed at giving our youth a be tter future. We are optimistic that this collaboration for joint advocacy would enable us to engage with the larger youth ecosystem, resulting in better opportunities for their growth.”
Our collaboration with Schoolnet is aligned on the mission to ensure learning, skilling for young people. We together ho pe to find the right opportunities for young people on a pathway of better socio economic opportunities added Dhuwa rakha Sriram, Chief of Generation Unlimited, Adolescent/Youth Development and partnerships at UNICEF.
Schoolnet’s focus will be on working with vulnerable populations, including young people with special needs, yo uth leaving care institutions, migrant youth and victims of child labour, violence, child marriage, trafficking, etc. Schoolnet will also share content, digital tools, and best practices that will aid in bridging the skills gap among India’s youth. It will also engage in the amplification of access to career guidance and awareness by leveraging technical expertise and its tools. The two will additionally collaborate on joint advocacy programmes to engage the larger ecosystem working on career guidance and skill development.
