Our Vocational Training program empowers youth and young adults with disabilities by equipping them with practical, employment-ready skills. We offer specialized, ability-based training in sustainable trades—including tailoring and stitching, carpentry, screen printing, basic computer applications, and horticulture.
By focusing on individual strengths, our goal is to help these young individuals secure sustainable livelihoods, achieve financial independence, and confidently integrate into the mainstream workforce and society.
Campus Challenge guides and empowers youth with disabilities to determine their goals, build confidence, and stand on their own feet. We offer a variety of specialized vocational courses tailored to their interests and abilities:
• Computer Training
• Stitching & Tailoring
• Carpentry
• Print Shop (Screen Printing)
• Horticulture
• Secretarial & Receptionist Skills
Proficiency in computers is an absolute requirement for success in today's technology-driven environment. However, many youth with disabilities simply do not know how to use a computer. This training is helping them with basic computer literacy, access to computer equipment, office applications, and internet usage. This essential training is in great demand, providing a much-needed foundation and equipping them for future success, enabling them to secure better jobs.
Young women with disabilities from rural backgrounds often face significant barriers, remaining confined to their homes with limited opportunities for employment. Without financial independence, they rely entirely on their families, which can heighten economic vulnerability. Tailoring offers a practical and immediate solution, enabling them to work directly from their homes upon completing the course. This specialized training empowers them to start their own micro-enterprises or secure sustainable employment in the garment industry.
Our Print Shop program provides hands-on training to youth with physical disabilities in screen printing, offset printing, bookbinding, master printing, and machine troubleshooting. As part of this practical training, we accept commercial work orders from neighboring companies, which helps generate sustainable income to maintain the equipment. Through this initiative, numerous differently abled youngsters have successfully completed their training and are equipped with the specialized skills needed to secure meaningful employment in the printing sector.
Our multi-trades workshop equips youth with physical disabilities with essential technical and hands-on vocational skills. We provide comprehensive training in traditional woodwork—including crafting home and office furniture, wooden toys, surface finishing, polishing, and painting.
In addition to carpentry, youngsters are also trained in foundational electrical and plumbing works. Upon completion of this practical curriculum, our trainees are fully capable of handling diverse maintenance, repair, and manufacturing projects, paving the way for sustainable employment or self-reliant livelihoods.
Our Horticulture program serves multiple core objectives: providing healthy organic food for campus residents, offering therapeutic value for individuals with intellectual disabilities, and creating sustainable employment for youth. With 150 children and 55 staff residing on campus, our kitchen prepares over 200,000 meals annually. The extensive fruit and vegetable garden significantly supports this need while providing hands-on training in horticulture and floriculture, where children actively participate in daily care activities like watering.
Through the dedicated efforts of our garden team, a highly effective farming model was developed. The cultivation area features wheelchair-friendly pathways connecting small raised platforms filled with fertile soil, where seasonal vegetables, spices, and medicinal plants are grown. The infrastructure includes two green roofs for sapling propagation, a dedicated potting area, a social gathering space, a specialized soil-mixing shed near the temple field, and an outdoor classroom with a tool shed for theoretical lessons.
The temple field functions as our primary production hub, which successfully achieved an annual yield of 10 tons of organically grown fruits and vegetables. To ensure authentic organic practices, a small sustainable cattle farm was integrated with donor support. Today, kitchen waste, garden bio-matter, and cow dung are systematically composted to produce high-quality, nutrient-rich organic manure for the entire campus.