Job Description

Academic qualifications:

Class 10th passed

Professional qualification:

Certificate or diploma in a vocational skill such as tailoring, making craft products

Work experience:

Experience of working in a manufacturing unit

Previous experience of working with visually impaired persons would be preferable

Brief about the Program:

The Training equips visually impaired youth with skills to work manually, focussing on creating a product and learning folding, packaging and related tasks that will enable them to find a job in a manufacturing facility or work as an entrepreneur on order basis from their home itself. Scores of people with visual impairment have secured jobs and lead dignified jobs after the training.

NAB India Centre for Blind Women and Disability Studies envisioned a dream of financial independence, increased self-worth and happiness for every blind girl in India. NAB India Centre for Blind Women is one of its kind Center for empowerment and rehabilitation of blind women in India. It is also the only center to conduct job mapping studies for blind in India. The Center provides training to both educated and uneducated visually impaired women with the objective of enabling them to gain employment, take up higher education and regain their career after a gap (if there is any, due to late onset of blindness). The Centre enables Livelihood Creation for the visually impaired (VI) women and men by empowering them with skills and training that help them lead a life of dignity and socio-economic independence.

Job description:

a. Training persons with visual impairment on carrying out manual work such as cutting, pasting, folding, packing, threading, rolling etc. to ensure quality on each task and helping them to gradually attain an industry-acceptable speed of working. This should enable them to work on in-house production.

Acclimatizing the trainees to the nuances of folding and packing various garments and products while ensuring good quality and minimum time wastage,

b. Conducting job mapping in different industries to identify tasks feasible for visually challenged persons and upgrading the trainees on the new tasks in the industry for work.

Language: Odia and English

Location: Bhubaneshwar, Odisha

Eligibility Criteria

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Desired Candidate Profile

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Organization Details

• Organization Name:NAB India, Centre For Blind Women And Disability Studies
• About Organization:NAB India Centre for Blind Women & Disability Studies is one of its kind Centre for empowerment and rehabilitation of blind women in India. It’s also the only center to conduct job mapping studies to develop as many jobs as possible for blind or visually impaired women in India. The Centre provides training to both educated and uneducated visually impaired women with the objective of enabling them to gain employment, take up higher education and regain their career after a gap (due to late onset of blindness). The Centre is busy enabling Livelihood Creation for the hidden visually impaired (VI) women by empowering them with skills and training that help them lead a life of dignity and socio-economic independence.
  
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