Our Involvements
1. Career Education, Guidance & Counselling (CEGC)
The young people in while at school are provided with CEGC to help them make informed decisions about their education, training and career. The various provisions of guidance provided are:- encouraging them to Know God and His plan in their lives, discover who they are, what they have in terms of gifts, talents potentials etc, know the world of work get work experience, to prepare CV, and skills of job searching; go through individual career interview, and to make Career Guidance Action Plan (CGAP).

CEGC and its contribution to school and the Parents:
Parents are helped to guide their children realistically in the areas of Education, training and career decisions, deal with mismatch between career goals and potential examination results. They are trained on child development tasks and how to manage with the growing demands of adjustments through our special "Parents' evening" sessions. CEG helps the school in raising the motivation and examination performance of the students as they foresee the subject-occupation relationship. It encourages the teachers to gather informations relating to various occupations, making teaching interesting, & creative. It broadens the horizon of the students to create link between the education and labor market (job world).
2. Proactive Career Services in Rural Community
There are about 35 million young people below 1 7 years who are outside the preview of formal schools. It is a proven fact that failure of Career Guidance results in low economic growth and development. Hence VCD has attempted to adapt CEG among the illiterates, semi-literate children; young people; women, and long term unemployed. This programme was initiated since 1993 in 14 villages among 4300 population in Kumjharia Panchayat in Orissa.
  • The process of Proactive Career Guidance:
    VCD introduced career services adapted with participatory approach to rural development. The rural people were facilitated to know themselves, their local & regional resources, their rights & responsibilities. VCD started a Career Information Center for all people to access informations on vacancies, job opportunities and general informations on agriculture.
  • Multi-Skilling & Empowerment
    Women, young people and the unemployed were given training in income generation skills such as: Food preservation (pickle making. preservation of raw fruits a    nd vegetables, etc) Floriculture (using the waste land the saving groups members earned a lot of profit).

    Mushroom Cultivation, Identifying herbs and making herbal medicines, Rearing and nurturing of the domestic animals. (Poultry, dairy, goatery etc) Health awareness: training in basic first aid, mother and childcare, prevention of common ailments. And mental and social health care, Initiating small business and entrepreneurial training e.g. women groups got into purchase and sale of commonly used garments and utilities by the rural people.
3. Training in Leadership - Discipleship and Income Generation Skills
This training is designed to meet the needs of young people, unemployed, and outreach workers who represent 85% of the rural population in Orissa state. 50% of these live below the poverty line. There is also spiritual-social-economic and political deprivation that is caused due to poverty, lack of awareness, and oppression by the caste hierarchy, and negative traditional heritage.

The Intervention for Transformation of such situation is to help the participants is to know God in their personal life, prepare 'disciples' who can teach others to observe "all commands" of God, develop leadership skills in each participant during their residential training; provide a multi-income generation skills such as: Bamboo craft; pottery, pot painting, Bio-agricultural practices, Mushroom cultivation etc which can be replicated in their living context. Encourage every participant to become self-reliant and get involved in the community as change agents.

Training Modules, Duration and Cost:
Professional trainers and experts in their respective fields conduct all the training including the income generation skills. There are five, major training modules. The period of training ranges between 2 months to 6-month period at a stretch. The cost per participant for all the training ranges from rupees 1500 to 3500 per month. The variation is due to number of training units and the cost per each of the unit.
4. Bal Vikas - Vocational Education Programme
There was a growing burden for the holistic development and education of the poor street children. Bal Vikas was initiated meet such growing need since past 4 years. There are about 50 slum children who have been benefiting through this innovative Vocationalised training.

The children are becoming change agents in their own community.
5. Counselling
This programme was initiated in response to the demand from the teachers for their own psychological personality needs as well as for the children with learning difficulties.

Our major emphasis is not only to find psychological solutions to the manifested symptoms but also to deal with the root causes. The individual cases are handled by the insight given by God as well as professional Counselling procedures.

Clients are encouraged to relate to God and find solutions, which are far beyond the temporal solution. Behavioral procedures and techniques are used to deal with specific symptoms.

The various categories of clients who have received Counselling have experienced healing some have come closure to God. Man people learn to practice forgiveness, reconciliation and restitution as the ways of overcoming problems and dealing various issues.
6. Teacher's Training
VCD has been involved in professional training with the teaching faculty of about 150 schools and colleges in India. The major concern has been to enable the teaching faculty to be challenged with the need & importance of subject-career link, improve the quality of teaching, understanding and learning of the processes of developmental stages of children to integrate teaching with different styles of learning of the students. This is for their own personal, professional development.
7. Special Seminars, Workshops and Training for Students and Youth

VCD has conducted many special seminars and workshops for the young people in India in the past years. The main aim is to impart the awareness and skills necessary for understanding the meaning understanding of VOCATION (i.e. Calling) and develops the Biblical perspective to CAREERS, OOCUPATION, JOB, and WORK. It is to combine the Biblical and Professional knowledge of Career Guidance applicable in every ones live.

Seminar & workshops include:
  • Knowing & having Intimacy with God
  • Understanding the basic Biblical teaching on
    > Vocation: Calling of God for all people to be "like Jesus", "Be Holy as God is Holy"
    > Work: "As expression of life" and 'as unto God and not for any man'
    > Money in the Kingdom of God: Stewardship of money and use of Money
    > Youth, Sex, Marriage, love
  • Career Guidance and Counselling: Who am I? What I have? Where I want to go? And How will I get there? preparing c.v.
  • Presenting Portfolio for employment
  • Developing Core Skills: leadership, Team building, Communication.