Estah Mission

What We Do

THE FOUR PROGRAMME AREA OF ESTAH MISSION ARE:

1. Positive Parenting skills for families.

Our children are ever changing. Every parent faces challenges in the area of parenting. Parents need advice, counseling and training on parenting basics like discipline, positive communication, conflict handling etc. Understanding this need ESTAH introduced Positive Parenting, a training program for parents. Effective parenting has never been more important to a family’s success than today. Proper parenting shapes the coming generations, and the way the next generation will behave, affecting the world around them. History has taught us that parenting without a proper foundation has always and indefinitely lead to confusion for any developing child. Positive Parenting skills is not just for parents who have been accused of being “bad parents” and it is not just for parents of children with serious psychological problems. Parenting skills training is worthwhile for every parent, because it can help you do the best job possible in raising your children, because it can improve your confidence in your parenting ability, and because this is the most important job you will ever have.
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Our Modules

  • Understanding children and the stages of development
  • Positive Communication
  • Understanding Your Role as a Parent
  • Handling sibling rivalry
  • Positive discipline
  • Handling couple conflicts
  • Developing Social Skills in your child
  • Balancing work and family
  • Understanding the various “parent-Child” relationships
  • Different types of fathers
  • Handling strong willed children
  • Building self esteem in your children
  • Parents as motivators

2. Placement training and Young Entrepreneurs skill development for Youth

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ESTAH focuses on revealing and developing the strengths of each teen we serve. We help our teens discover and apply their unique strengths to the business They learn the professional and leadership skills they need to succeed in business. In the process, they develop new marketable skills and enduring self-confidence.

Guiding Principles

  1. Hands-on entrepreneurship is the most effective vehicle for teaching a broad range of financial, business and life skills.
  2. Owning and running a real income-generating business is the key to engaging and empowering teens.
  3. Teens thrive when they receive ongoing support from caring adults.
  4. With a rigorous curriculum, relevant instruction, and powerful relationships, low-income teens will graduate ready to pursue higher education and meaningful work.
  5. Given the opportunity, all teens can find the seeds to success within themselves.

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What Students Need

  • Access to paid work
  • Professional networking skills and opportunities
  • Job readiness skills
  • College readiness skills
  • Venues and skills to move out of poverty
  • Increased self-esteem

What ESTAH Offers

  • Real World Experience
  • Interaction with clients
  • Management and ownership
  • Personal Development
  • Communication
  • Leadership
  • Mentors
  • Earned Income

TOPICS

  • Heart Of An Entrepreneur (The art of starting an organization)
  • Effective Communication and Inter-Personal Skills
  • Selling Yourself In The Market Place
  • Positive Mental Attitude & Self Esteem
  • Corporate Etiquette
  • The Essence Of Creativity
  • Goal Setting
  • Being An Effective Team Player
  • Managing Time & Change

3. Early childhood development education for Children.

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ESTAH MISSION initially started with a basic computer training that was established with an objective of providing quality early childhood development education , bridge the digital drive and all round social and cultural upbringing of the less privileged children. The centre is the first of its kind in the area offering an exceptionally good quality education for the attainment of children between the ages of 3 to 15 years for primary education. It’s a home a way from home where HIV/AIDS orphans mentally retread children, physically handicapped orphans and children from very poor families are being given basic care and support with the teachers symbolizing the “Eternal Joy”.

Since its inception, the centre has trained over 35 children, 68% of who are now enrolled in private and government aided primary school under universal primary education- Government of India national broader frame work on education for all.

The enrolment figure for this year 2008 is 35 children (10 are in Baby class, 24 in middle class and 11 in top class) respectively.

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OBJECTIVE OF SETTING UP THIS PROGRAM

  • Give the less privileged children a firm and sound foundation of education at grass root level.
  • Improve on orphaned vulnerable children’s quality of life.
  • Ensure that little or unaccompanied children don’t go to the streets for a livelihood.

SUPPORT TO QUALITY EDUCATION

This program was initiated to help address the educational needs of orphaned vulnerable/needy children preparing to join primary school or those who have been compelled to drop out of the main stream education system due to extreme poverty caused by HIV/AIDS and war factors through provision of school fees, health care and scholastic materials.

Training modules for schools and children’s

  • Cross Cultural Diversity
  • Communication Skills
  • Presentation Skills (Public Speaking)
  • Negotiation Skills
  • Problem Solving and Decision Making
  • Business Leadership
  • Customer Centric Relationships
  • Interviewing Skills
  • Business Etiquette
  • Professional Selling Skills
  • Telephone Etiquette
  • Six Hats Thinking
  • Time Management
  • The Power Of Networking
  • Objection Handling
  • Relationship Selling

4. Networking Communities to bridge the digital Drive.

During the six months of its existence, the NGO Capacity Enhancement Unit has succeeded in forming working relations with many south and local NGOs. Several meetings in Andhra and other districts have proved effective in publicizing the role and work of this Unit. The first step in working together to strengthen networks among member organizations of the Forum began by working with the Forum’s 11 district DLOs to identify training needs and problems

Training Needs Assessment for south India NGOs

The first needs assessment was carried out in Andhra Pradesh through a meeting of 200 local NGOs from Hyderabad, Nizamabad, Nellore, Kakinada, VIZAG, Karimnagar, Mahaboobnagar Vijayawada, Rajamundry, Bangalore and Chennai in December 2009. These were the 14 NGOs involved in the Capacity Building program developed by CRS. About 25 photocopies of questionnaires were distributed to these 14 NGOs who were requested to pass on the extras to other NGOs in their respective districts. From NGOs in these districts, only around three have returned these questionnaires.

The above meeting in Andhra was also used by the Forum and ESTAH to inform Civil Society Organizations as widely as possible about the Small Grants Program for such organizations, including conditions of application and the process of submitting proposals, contact details at the NGO Forum and so on. Training needs assessments together with disseminating information.

Steps in Implementation:

  • Obtaining the local NGO registry from the Government
  • Identifying NGOs focused on Capacity Building.
  • Direct contact with NGOs focused on Capacity Building to confirm whether they have

    • staff capable of becoming facilitators and trainers.

  • Composing a list of local NGOs with staff capable of becoming facilitators and trainers.

The following discussion topics were prepared, each with two or three pages of explanation and questions for group discussion:

  1. profit and non-profit
  2. voluntarism
  3. good governance
  4. accountability
  5. environmental sustainability, gender equity and human rights