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About Us
About Us
Contribute us in Building a Skilled Workforce, For Your Industry
Support a Skill is a drive to revive the potential in our youth that despite being underprivileged can be a boon for society. Support a Skill Care Foundation is a contribution-led non-government organization certified to impart skill training programs across India and is aimed to strengthen the economically underprivileged youth, by skilling them for various industries like Travel, Tourism & Hospitality, Retail, IT, Digital Marketing and many more.
Moreover, with the skilled workforce we build, we aim to reinforce the industries and make them stronger. To accelerate this initiative and catalyse the transformation, stakeholders from all industries must come together to become Ambassadors for Change and contributors to make the initiative successful.
Purpose
Our Mission
India is the land of youth, the global hub of the youngest demography yet home to the world’s largest yet unemployable population, hence every industry in India is facing a skill deficit. Today, more than 90% of the country’s workforce is either unskilled or semi-skilled, which is a severe setback to the Indian human resource and to the Indian economy. This is where we get into the picture.
We at ‘Support A Skill’, believe in bridging this gap between in-demand skills and the unskilled workforce supply. We are a belief-driven team of changemakers who truly believe that ‘To be skilled, is a Right’ and shall be granted to everyone despite their circumstances. With an aim to strengthen our youth, we are on a journey to educate and instil relevant skills in them to build a stronger nation.
Target
Our Vision
We see our country as the world’s largest mine of uncut diamonds. We have the potential, enthusiasm and limitless determination to outperform, but are severely outnumbered when it comes to skilled labour. Through your contribution and support, we aim to provide ‘Free skill development’ to every willing individual in this country. Our country has a dire need for skill development programs and in this small initiative led by us, we truly need enthusiastic volunteers and initiators who wish to make a small contribution to make India a ‘Global Skill Hub’.
Moreover, with this initiative, we wish to fulfil a larger goal of building a strong community of skilled individuals, who can contribute to society, and the industries and can strongly be a flywheel in the engine of our Indian economy.
How Can You Help?
Your donation will help us save and improve lives with research, education and emergency care.
Socialprenueur
The Visionary
Support a Skill Care Foundation is the brainchild of Dr Surinder Kumar, an entrepreneur, a certified life coach, and a mentor with a doctorate in Tourism, who began her journey by transforming the travel and hospitality industry and over time set her foot on a journey of transforming herself into a ‘socialpreneur’. Started in the early ’90s with her first venture, Travel Mate India Pvt. Ltd., a brand curated to bring the world to India and take India across the globe. This was a great success and brought her several international recognitions and accolades.
However, she had witnessed a dire need for highly skilled and trained individuals to sustain and upscale the tourism and hospitality industry. Hence, in 2002, she established The TMI Academy of Travel Tourism & Aviation Studies, a professional vocational training institute to create a pool of profound travel professionals across various facets of travel, tourism & hospitality operations. Over the years, Dr S. Kumar has trained over 11000 students in multiple courses of travel management, tour operations, airlines, retail & hospitality.
In 2021, Dr Kumar began her Socialpreneur journey with Support a Skill Care Foundation. She aims to train underprivileged students and professionals to achieve a livelihood in the travel, tourism and hospitality industry, but their economic conditions restrict them. The intention is to strengthen their professional skills through Comprehensive Skills Training Programs and provide these trained individuals to the Travel, Tourism, Aviation and Hospitality industry. With Support a Skill Care Foundation she wishes to give back to society and the tourism industry which has been the foundation of her success.
Our Trainers
Mr. Sharad Chitkara (THSC Certified)
Born and brought up in a Delhi-based business family.
Post-graduation, he worked in various MNCs for 9 years in insurance and banking services. He later moved to the travel & tourism industry with the completion of several related courses. Certified in executive MBA, IATA, World Tour management and THSC travel trainer. He also worked as a contractual Tour Manager for 9 years and trained in several travel academies at the same time.
Ms. Divya Kaur Sandhu (THSC Certified)
She has an experience in the Hospitality industry of 25 plus years.
A Masters-degree holder in Hospitality Management, PGDip in Travel & Tourism and an IATA Instructor for Foundation in Travel and Tourism. She boasts a vast experience with Reputed Airlines, Travel Agencies, Hotels and Travel Institutes and is a Freelance Travel Consultant.
Ms. Pooja Chernalia
A travel and management professional, she started her career with Qantas Airways.
After completing her MBA,
she started working as a training instructor at reputed tourism and aviation schools. With a teaching experience of 20 years, presently Pooja is working as an IATA Instructor with TMI Academy.
Our Advisor
Dr. Anjali Capila
Dr. Capila is a Vice President of the Mountain India Peoples Forum, an Executive and Governing Board Member of the Institute of Himalayan Environment Research and Empowerment (INHERE) in Kumaon, and a Trustee of HIMCON in Tehri Garhwal. A prolific public speaker, she recently spoke on “Folklore of the Himalayan Communities: Our Intangible Heritage” at a national seminar on Indian Culture and Philosophy at the Institute of Culture, Kolkata. She also spoke on “Traditional Health Practices of Women in Himalayan Communities: A Qualitative Perspective” at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, USA.
Ms. Vijayluxmi Bose
She has 20 years’ experience in curriculum development and health education, with specialization in communication support to key public health areas, especially adolescents, women and children. She has worked as a Health Communication Specialist at the Public Health Foundation of India, as Coordinator for the Indian Child Protection Medical Network, International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children and as a Consultant with various UN agencies, primarily with the South-East Asia office of the WHO and the UNESCO-HQ in Paris. She has been a USEFI and Salzburg Fellow and her work has been published in peer reviewed journals like the British Journal of Medicine and by the WHO (South-East Asia Regional Office).
Vijayluxmi currently co-holds a women’s collective called Khushali under the aegis of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Delhi Branch in Talla Ramgarh region of Nainital and continues to develop curricula for adolescents in the region.
FAQs
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Established In 2021 by Dr Kumar with an aim to train underprivileged students and professionals to achieve a livelihood in various industries like Travel, Tourism & Hospitality, Retail, IT, Digital Marketing and provide them to the industry for its growth.
We have a very clear line of action. We work to create a livelihood for the underprivileged by skilling them in various industry-relevant courses and then placing them into the industry. For this, we take contributions from various stakeholders from those industries. This way we skill students and professionals for the industries and help them in strengthening their work.
To contribute to this initiative there are 4 primary routes:
Companies can help us raise money through either donations or corporate social responsibility. Individuals can help us through donations, by creating channels for quick fundraising or they can even enrol with us as volunteers in the program and skill the underprivileged of our society.
Join us on our mission of impacting 10 million people by 2030
Support a Skill Care Foundation is a contribution-led, certified non-government organization certified to impart skill training programs across India and is aimed to strengthen the economically underprivileged youth, by skilling them for various industries like Travel, Tourism & Hospitality, Retail, IT, Digital Marketing and many more.
Contact Us
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