JIREH was started as a village level welfare organization in 1986 when a group of is a Vocational Training Center in Kalahandi, Odisha providing education in life skills and employability skills to adults with intellectual challenges. The need was for vocational training once basic schooling was completed thus preparing a potential workforce that has so far been greatly ignored.

 

Adults with intellectual challenges have a huge potential to be self-dependent and productive provided their training is structured and systematic. In the last 25 years JIREH has impacted over 200 adults with intellectual challenges and made life altering changes in over 800 lives. These adults have had life altering changes in their self esteem, self dependence and productivity through systematic and consistent training in the JIREH training program. They have learnt skills like personal grooming and hygiene, household and financial management, personal social skills, occupational guidance and employability skills.

 

JIREH provides adults and young adults facing intellectual challenges and disabilities with vocational and life skills, making them employment-ready. We equip them to become valuable contributors to society. DIYA is part of the transformational stories of over 200 such unique individuals over the past 25 years.