मेंटॉर युवा: ग्रामीण युवकांना करियर मार्गदर्शकांशी जोडण्याचे माध्यम Mentor Yuva Connects Rural Youths with the Mentors

महाराष्ट्रातील शहरी भागाबरोबरच ग्रामीण भागात पण टॅलेंट भरभरून आहे. ग्रामीण भागातील युवांचे पण खूप मोठे स्वप्न आहेत आणि गगन भरारी घेण्याची पंखात ताकद पण आहे. पण संधी अभावी किंवा मार्गदर्शनाअभावी बऱ्याच मुला-मुलींना त्यांची स्वप्ने पूर्ण करता येत नाहीत. दुसरीकडे याच ग्रामीण भागातून काही तरुण-तरुणी महत्प्रयत्नाने आपला मार्ग शोधून काढत यशस्वी झाले आहेत आणि आपल्या भागातील तरुणांना मार्गदर्शन करू इच्छितात. ‘मेंटॉर युवा’ प्रोजेक्ट हा या दोघांना जोडण्याचा एक प्रयत्न आहे.

हा प्रोजेक्ट ग्रामीण भागातील आणि शहरातील वंचित युवांना करियर मार्गदर्शन उपलब्ध करून देण्यासाठी सुरु केला आहे. जरी या प्रोजेक्टचा मुख्य उद्धेश ग्रामीण भागातील युवांना मार्गदर्शन मिळवून देणे असला तरी या प्रोजेक्टचा लाभ सर्व युवकांसाठी खुला आहे. सुरुवातीला प्रायोगिक तत्वावर हा प्रोजेक्ट महाराष्ट्रामध्ये राबविला जाईल. मेंटॉर युवा हा नॉन-प्रॉफिट प्रोजेक्ट आहे आणि पूर्णपणे volunteers (स्वयंसेवक) वर अवलंबून आहे.

The talent is plentiful in urban as well as rural India. Youths from rural India also have very big dreams and full potential to achieve their dreams. But many of the youths cannot fulfill their dreams due to lack of guidance to tap the available career opportunities. On the other hand, many youths from the rural area have succeeded in finding their ways to a successful career with great difficulty and now want to give back to the community in some or the other way. Mentor Yuva project is a platform to connect these two. Mentor Yuva is a non-profit initiative and works on the principles of volunteering and collective efforts.

You can be a mentee if you are not sure which career to select, you want to know more about a specific career, or you want to know how to enter into a specific profession and excel in that field. A mentee can be anyone who wants to seek career advice and guidance from an experienced individual (mentor) who has already walked on that path.Moreover, mentees can also learn to develop soft skills that are necessary on various career paths from their mentors.

This is what inspires us...
India has the youngest population in the world. Majority of this young population lives in rural India. These youths have tremendous potential that remained unrecognized and untapped due to lack of proper guidance or mentoring. This project was born with the desire to support these rural youths to excel in their careers. However, this project is open to all the youths who are in need of a career mentor. Initially on a pilot basis, the project will be run in the state of Maharashtra with some fields of career. Later, the project will be extended to more career fields with more mentors.