SWAN Mission is to bring Smiles in Youth by Training & Counseling

My venture SWAN Livelihood (Skilled Workforce Advancing Nation) is a start-up based out of Delhi, India. It focuses on improving the quality of youthful workforce through specially designed training programs and counselling sessions.

Our mission is to bring smiles on scores of youth and develop a congenial atmosphere in the workplace with satisfied employers. However for myself, my co-founder and our staff, the main inspiration comes from seeing the smiles from the youth we’re supporting. Everyday we strive to improve the quality of the youthful workforce through innovative training and counseling sessions.

Journey of SWAN

We started our operations in January 2020 by empowering youth coming from the economically weaker society by designing a training curriculum that was focused on comprehensive in-class training followed by connecting the participants to the employers.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, when the operations of all TVET (Technical and Vocational Education and Training) institutions came to a complete halt which, naturally impacted the job aspirations of innumerable youth, we tried to further gather data about the ‘pain points’ people were facing – from youth in youth in lower socio-economic areas, to college students and even working professions (both early stage and late stage).

To tackle the situation and to provide counselling support, SWAN Livelihood launched a new up-skilling platform called ‘Skill-X’, which included specially designed workshops to train the youth for a competitive professional environment in a post-pandemic world and to acquire a learning for a life mind-set through a series of reflective modules, evoking creative consciousness through creative self-discovery. The workshops were well perceived by the participants with over 100 youthful participants benefiting from the program. Self- belief and consistency in work can do wonders and have helped us in seeking support from various stakeholders and forging meaningful partnerships this year as we were able to impact over 500 participants coming from different walks of life, by spreading our wings to the rural villages of Uttarakhand, the insights from which got published the peer reviewed journal, Labour & Development by V.V. Giri National Labour Institute, Govt. of India.