Bright Future empowers youth to make informed decisions about their career and thus enables them to transform their passion into gainful employment through life skills development, career development, mentoring support, internships and placement opportunities.
Bright Future also builds capacities of key stakeholders like parents and schools who play an instrumental role in creating a conducive environment for enabling youth to take informed decisions independently pertaining to their career and life.
The Problem
According to a study which was conducted in February 2009 by New Resolution India in the South Mumbai’s urban communities on the problem of Aimless Education in society following issues were observed.
After interacting with Youth and Key stakeholders who play an instrumental role in creating an enabling environment for Youth the following issues were found:
Youth
- Career choice is influenced by circumstance
- Are mostly first generation learners
- Jump into careers based on peer pressure or financial need of the family
- Do not have positive role models
- Lack counselling support
- Lack motivation and life skills
Parents
- Are not equipped to provide guidance due to lack of knowledge
- Have limited exposure to educational and career opportunities
- Financial constraints
- Face communication gap with their children
- Focus more on marks and little focus on learning
- Are unaware of the skills required to excel in a career
Teacher
- More Focus on Marks and Grades
- High student teacher ratio
- More focus on only academic
- Inadequacy in developing skills of students and helping them to connect education to career and life
- Confusion in implementing of child protection and participation rights
- Lack of participatory approach in child’s holistic development
What we do?
Bright Future believes that lack of conducive environment and positive role models have led to the problem of aimless education. As a response to the problem, Bright Future works with children and young adolescents in the age group of 13 – 25 through the programs run in low-income private schools and communities in the cities of Mumbai and Thane. To empower youth and adolescents, Bright Future runs the following programs.
Drama For Development (D4D)
A one year programme run in a community which uses drama as a platform to develop skills that are essential for career and life in adolescents who are in the age group of 13-18 years. Drama for Development uses the methodology of Awareness
Livelihood Program
An accessible center in the community where a 3 months Livelihood programme is run for youth, who are known as aspirants, in the community in the age group of 18–25 years which develops them through Life Skills training, English and IT skills.
School Program
The School Programme focuses on creating a conducive environment in school by building capacities of students in grades VIII – X and key stakeholders like parents and teachers for enabling students to take informed decisions.
Impact
Since inception in 2009, Bright Future has actively engaged youth, parents, schools, teachers and mentors through its work
Aspirants skilled through Youth Development and Training Centers
Students reached out through School program
Adolescents engaged through Drama For Development
Stories of Change
We are proud of the achievements of our Aspirants who have fought against all odds and inspire many others like them.
A story of re-joining education and inspiration….
Pooja Jaiswar comes from a very humble background and lives in Vatsalatai Nagar a slum area in Mumbai with her parents and four siblings. Father runs a small tailoring business and mother is a house-wife who looks after the daily chores at home.
A story of grit and resilience….
Khemchand Ramlal Kurdia, is the youngest of the 3 siblings & stayed with his parents in a low-income community in Chembur area of Mumbai. His elder brother moved to another city permanently after he got married.Khemchand’s father had business of making shoes.
A story of grit and resilience….
Mamta Kanwar Shekhawat, lives with her parents and 4 brothers, total 9 members in a small one room house in Prakash Mill Compound area in Lower Parel. Mamta’s father hails from Rajasthan and moved to Mumbai for seeking employment.