Rural shores
Enskill – Employ – Empower – Engage
Inspired by the teachings of Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba, RuralShores is a social enterprise that provides underprivileged rural youth with sustainable employment opportunities. Currently there are 3500 employees in 18 centers in 10 states.
Inspired by the teachings of Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba, RuralShores is a social enterprise that provides underprivileged rural youth with sustainable employment opportunities. Currently there are 3500 employees in 18 centers in 10 states.
RuralShores is based on Swami’s vision of Econocare:
Sustainable economic development of rural areas
Aims to tap the talent and markets of rural India
Integrate rural youth into the knowledge economy
The Impact
RuralShores offers its employees an opportunity to support their seasonal family income with a steady monthly income without having to migrate to the next big city. Their success in turn encourages fellow villagers to educate their children, including the daughters. Women constitute nearly 50% of the employees.
The impact shows in
Hiring youth who are educated but would otherwise migrate outside to find jobs
Training youth in skills required to get connected in today"'"s corporate world
Providing sustainable income to augment household incomes in rural areas
We believe that major social endeavors need to be complemented with constructive economic development activity to enable complete self-reliance.
Therefore, development of rural areas in Education, Healthcare and Social care is truly sustainable only when complemented by Econocare.
Future Goals
RuralShores aims to provide sustainable employment to 100,000 rural youth by establishing RuralShores centers in each of the 500 rural districts of India within the next 7 years.
For more information, please visit http://ruralshores.com/
Where there is ‘I’, there is no Sai;
wherever there is Sai, there is no ‘I’.
- Baba