Pune City Connect (A Lighthouse Communities Initiative)

Lighthouse Communities runs the Digital Empowerment Programme with an aim to ensure that at least one person from each low-income family must be able to use the internet to improve their quality of life. The programme involves the creation of digital empowerment centres and equipped buses near the vicinity of slums which are visited by faculty regularly.

Members from underprivileged families are enrolled in the centres and provided training for a total duration of forty hours.

The GOYN programme seeks to identify and empower the youth of Pune city. It aims to guide every youth towards sustainable livelihood and a life of dignity through locally created opportunities by an eco-system of local players. It encourages collaboration within the eco-system and encourages collective action, motivates public initiative and arranges for requisite funds to set up entrepreneurship opportunities for the youth.

Partnering with the Education Department of Pune and Marathi medium schools of the city, the organisation strives for the development of children and teachers. The programme involves providing holistic social and emotional learning, creating vibrant physical learning spaces and activity-based learning through robotics, science, and music.

It is a sustainable livelihood programme for underprivileged youth. The programme reaches out to youth from low-income communities through personal visits by volunteers, the identified youth are taken through sessions of creative exercises, mindfulness practices, group challenges and interaction with successful individuals.

The youth are then counselled and informed about various career and vocation options followed by enrollment in foundational courses for digital literacy and vocational skilling. On successful completion of training, pre-coaching for interviews, CV making and mock interviews are conducted and the candidates are finally placed in partner organisations post completion of appropriate formalities.