Youth4Jobs is a not-for-profit organization started in 2012 which provides placement - linked skilling for youth with disability. It is led by Meera Shenoy who has the unique experience of working in senior government positions, and with multilateral funders like World Bank and UNDP across south East Asia.
The focus of Youth4Jobs is to move the disabled from their present vicious cycle of poverty to the virtual cycle of opportunity. In the last ten years, our work has been a system changer – changing mindsets that youth with disabilities cannot work - in villages, on one hand, and companies on the other. To demonstrate this at scale, Y4J has 57 centres in 15 states of India and works in 2876 colleges/universities tie ups focusing on youth with locomotor disabilities, speech and hearing impaired, low vision and visually impaired from poor families.