She has changed many lives of disabled person who were of no good to their families but today they are working in big enterprises, companies and earning a handsome salary for their families. Names are many Bollam Renuka, who is a physically disabled girl who could never think to work independently among the able people in a big firm but today is the senior team manager at an international bank. Kamla has speech and hearing impairment but today she is recruited in Max store in Jaipur, Rahul Jain with similar disabilities was also hired by Being Human store in Jaipur. Mekala Trinadh with loco motor disability was hired by a renowned video game maker company Electronic Arts India Pvt. Ltd in Hyderabad. And let me introduce you to the changer maker of all these lives; she is Meera Shenoy the founder of Youth4Jobs a social enterprise that sets up placements linked skilling centres for the youth with disabilities. Youth4Jobs founded in 2012 by Meera herself who spent six years working in the tribal and rural employment sector, while working in that sector she thought that she had learnt enough in the field and she wanted to do something more. She was certain that she wanted to do something for the needy and then she looked into the date of employment of disabled people. And she was shocked to see as the data was very disappointing and then she decided that she would certainly begin a platform for the youth with disabilities in order to provide them the right employment opportunities. Since then Youth4Jobs has been helping the youth with loco motor, speech and hearing disabilities and also the persons with low vision. The youth coming to them is mostly from the rural and poor backgrounds that truly need a back support. With 18 training centres in nine states of India so far Youth4Jobs has trained over 6,100 persons with disabilities out of which around 70% of them have been recruited at good positions in over 200 companies countrywide. Under the guidance of Meera Shenoy her team has initiated many training programmes which aim at skills development in the youth with disabilities. But what is more challenging she states is to change the mindset of the people, big companies are not easily convinced to recruit a person with disability and also not the family of that person is ready to believe that their adult with disability can do any work in the outside world. Nevertheless in the coming five years Meera Shenoy and her team of Youth4Jobs aspires to reach out to one million households in rural communities and want to train and place 15,000 youth with disabilities.
