Schoolnet India has announced its partnership with YuWaah at UNICEF to connect Indian young people with aspirational work opportunities and engage them as active changemakers.
YuWaah (Generation Unlimited in India) at UNICEF is a globally and locally incubated platform hosted with UNICEF 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, facilitating 200 mn young people to gain relevant skills for productive lives and the future of work and engage 300 million young people as active changemakers and create spaces for their leadership development by 2030.
Our collaboration with Schoolnet is aligned with the mission to ensure learning and skilling for young people. We together hope to find the right opportunities for young people on a pathway of better socio-economic opportunities added Dhuwarakha 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, youth leaving care institutions, migrant youth and victims of child labour, violence, child marriage, trafficking, etc.