About Setu

A Trust registered in Delhi, India started operation in the year 2007 with projects focused on Women Education, Empowerment and Livelihood creation.

Project “Uday” – Formal Education at the Setu Shikshajyoti Kendra at Village Nithari, Noida, Uttar Pradesh India. Setu provides formal education to children of poor families. Setu Shiksha Jyoti Kendra, Nithari, Noida, started as a primary school over the last twelfth years the strength of children has gone up to 476 and 329 of these are girls in the session starting 2020-2021. The school works in 2 shifts. We started the 2020-2021 session with 111 students in the pre-primary, 144 students in the primary section and the rest 221 students in the middle & the senior secondary section. All the students apart from teaching were provided, Books, Uniform, all Stationery items and Midday meal at the school. In additional the students also underwent regular Health, Eye and Dental Checkups along with immunization Camps.

Project Saksham – Vocational Skill Development Creating Employability : The Focus of the Setu Vocational Skill Development Program is mainly to empower women with Employability skills leading them to become independent thru jobs or self -employment.

Various project have been launched and Skills are offered in Basic IT, Tally, English Speaking and Retail, Tailoring ( Low end as well as High end) & Textile, Hospitality, Health care, Fashion Design, Beauty & Wellness and Financial Literacy.

Vocational Skill Development courses are currently offered at our Multi Skill Centre at Village Nithari and Village Sadarpur in Noida Uttar Pradesh as well as at our centres at Dawas, Jobner and Laliya ka Bas, Jaipur, Rajasthan. Over last 8 years 10795 people gained skills including 7658 women & 3530 placed.

“Project Saaman” – Mainstreaming of People with Special Needs : The Setu Centre for Development of People with special needs is located in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India. Our endeavour is to mainstream the students by getting them jobs or arranging self-employment opportunities after completion of courses and certification. We started with 15 students in 2016 and till date to summarize we have 714 the total enrolments, assessed & certified 497 and 130 have been employed/self- employed/Mainstreamed. We have made a provision of a Physio-care and Rehabilitation Centre available with caters to People with Special needs from the under-served and needy community.

Mission: Skill and Empower The Unserved

Setu endeavours to play a vital role in

• Enabling the Growth of Children and Youth

• Enabling Empowerment of Girl Child & Women Thru Education & Skilling and Livelihood creation

• Enabling Empowerment of People with Disability

• Caring for Human Health

Setu mainly works with Communities, Corporates and other NGOS. We do not work directly with the Government. With Communities we look at the under-served and involvement in our Education and Skill cum Employability programs. For Corporates we are the implementing partners for their CSR Initiative and for NGOS, we work jointly to achieve and assist in meeting our objectives.