It understood that exposure to problem solving through innovation at a young age increases the appetite for risk and also develops an entrepreneurial mindset. The foundation has worked with government and municipal schools since 2002, providing vocational training to at-risk grassroots adolescents. The programme will be limited to entrepreneurs in the 16-20 age bracket and aims to help them become innovative with their ideas, generate income, and become self-sufficient. The NGO hopes to amplify the earnings of its alumni, who show the prowess to set up a business with a long-term goal and vision to scale up that business, with entrepreneurial training. Having successfully trained the pilot batch, Salaam Bombay Foundation will now formally launch its incubator programme, Entrepreneurship Incubator for Grassroot Adolescents, on July 15 on the occasion of World Youth Skills Day. Having faced challenges trying to initially convince her conservative family, Periywswami now wants to become a full-time beautician and set up her own studio. She also took to Instagram to grow her network and showcase her work. She returned to the NGO’s entrepreneurship incubator programme as a student of the pilot batch and learnt business concepts and skills such as customer approach and budgeting. With no platform to learn and grow and government programmes on skill development and entrepreneurship only targeting those over 18 years, any lesser mortal would have given up. She had big dreams and her small business held much promise, only for Covid-19 to disrupt her plans. Seventeen-year-old Divya Periyaswami had set up a small, home-run beauty parlour after enrolling herself at NGO Salaam Bombay Foundation’s Beauty & Wellness training programme. The NGO has worked with govt and municipal schools since 2002, providing vocational training to at-risk grassroots adolescents.
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