YOUTH SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP According to the latest statistics, 30 million youth between the ages of 15-29 years form

30% of the Punjab population, out of which 15 million youth is unemployed and Government alone cannot resolve this problem. We believe that public private partnership is the only solution, with a clear vision and a roadmap to eradicate unemployment and poverty from our society.

PVTC has incorporated social entrepreneurship and service learning in the curriculum of all its Vocational Training Institutes. PVTC has become the first organization in the country which has launched social entrepreneurship and service learning course for transforming disadvantaged youth from victims to social entrepreneurs. PVTC has accomplished this milestone with the support of Youth Engagement Services (YES) Network Pakistan. YES Network Pakistan is a national leader in the field of service learning and youth social entrepreneurship in Pakistan. The youth social entrepreneurship course is designed not only to engage students in solving social problems of their communities in an organized manner, but also for helping them to build a better future for themselves. Young people will be learning to take control of their lives at an early age. And instead of repeating history, they will make their own history by paving new paths in their circle of life, leaving behind doubt and the fact that ending up in a well-paid job is the only way forward in life: they will actually CREATE jobs and become the boss of their life. The duration of social entrepreneurship and service learning course is fifty hours. This includes 10 hours of actual class work to assist participants to get familiarized

with the concept of youth social entrepreneurship and the process of development of a social enterprise plan and 40 hours of field work to serve the society. The mark allocation of the course is based on the attendance (10%), unscheduled quizzes (10%), field work (50%) and presentation of field work by the participants (30%). All the students of the PVTC are now being engaged in designing and implementing innovative community-based service learning project to make a difference in the lives of other. The core objective of this partnership is to provide an opportunity to the principals, teachers and students of PVTC to acquire knowledge, skills and information to plan, implement and evaluate Youth Social Entrepreneurship Projects. The students of VTIs through this program will get an opportunity to work in the field in order to gain practical experience including report writing. The graduates of PVTC will have an opportunity to get introduced and implement a social entrepreneurship program which is being implemented for the first time in Pakistan at such a large scale. PVTC will facilitate its students to gain a recognized qualification in social entrepreneurship to establish their own social enterprise to serve and earn at the same time and will also help them for their permanent rehabilitation.

YES NETWORK PAKISTAN AND PUNJAB VOCATIONAL TRAINING COUNCIL (PVTC)

YES Network Pakistan and Punjab Vocational Training Council (PVTC) Signed a Memorandum of Understanding for Introducing and institutionalizing the concept of Youth Social Entrepreneurship in Vocational Training Institutes of PVTC

YES Network Pakistan and Punjab Vocational Training Council signed today a Memorandum of Understanding to begin a formal partnership that will integrate the concept of youth social entrepreneurship into Vocational Training Institutes of PVTC. The MOU signing ceremony was held at the PVTC head office. The MOU was signed by Mr. Faisal Ijaz Khan, Chairman Punjab Vocational Training Council and Mr. Ali Raza Khan, Chief Executive Officer, YES Network Pakistan. This joint initiative will help young people to gain knowledge, skills and attitudes they need to start their own social enterprises. Through the Youth Enterprise Generator program, our long-term goal is to inspire and equip young people to become agents of positive change through their involvement in civil society, economic development and their communities. said CEO of YES Network Pakistan, Mr. Ali Raza Khan. PVTC is proud to launch this program to help the disadvantaged youth to set new direction of their working careers. Our role is to provide young people with the tools they need to play positive and constructive roles within Pakistani society.

Youth Engagement Services (YES) Network Pakistan is a legally registered non-profit organization. YES Network Pakistan has played a pioneer role in introducing the concepts of youth service and youth social entrepreneurship in the country. It has trained and engaged youth and youth serving institutions in designing and implementation of youthled service projects. YES Network Pakistan has pioneered the concept of treating disadvantaged youth living in low-income communities as a solution, not as a problem in the country.

INTEGRATION PROCESS OF SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP & SERVICE LEARNING PVTC has incorporated social entrepreneurship and service learning in the curriculum of all its Vocational Training Institutes. PVTC has become the first organization in the country which has launched social entrepreneurship and service learning course for transforming disadvantaged youth from victims to social entrepreneurs. PVTC has accomplished this milestone with the support of Youth Engagement Services (YES) Network Pakistan. YES Network Pakistan is a national leader in the field of service learning and youth social entrepreneurship in Pakistan. YES Network Pakistan carried out a series of activities to integrate the concept of social entrepreneurship and service learning in the curriculum of all Vocational Training Institutes of PVTC.

The youth social entrepreneurship course is designed not only to engage students in solving social problems of their communities in an organized manner, but also for helping them to build a better future for themselves. Young people will be learning to take control of their lives at an early age. And instead of repeating history, they will make their own history by paving new paths in their circle of life, leaving behind doubt and the fact that ending up in a well paid job is the only way forward in life: they will actually CREATE jobs and become the boss of their life.

The duration of social entrepreneurship and service learning course is fifty hours. This includes 10 hours of actual class work to assist participants to get familiarized with the concept of youth social entrepreneurship and the process of development of a social enterprise plan and 40 hours of field work to serve the society. The mark allocation of the course is based on the attendance (10%), unscheduled quizzes (10%), field work (50%) and presentation of field work by the participants (30%). All the students of the PVTC are now being engaged in designing and

implementing innovative community-based service learning project to make a difference in the lives of other. Following steps were taken to incorporate social entrepreneurship and service learning education in the curriculum of all Vocational Training Institutes of PVTC

1. Exchange of ideas between Mr. Ali Raza Khan, CEO YES Network Pakistan and Mr. Faisal Ijaz Khan, Chairman PVTC. 2. Signing of MOU between YES and PVTC for the integration of social entrepreneurship and service learning into the curriculum of all Vocational Training Institutes. 3. Baseline Survey to measure the current level of knowledge of principals about youth social entrepreneurship and service learning. 4. Orientation Sessions with the Principals of Vocational Training Institutes. 5. Identification and selection of Focal Person/Lead Trainer from each Vocational Training Institute of PVTC. 6. Development of curriculum and instructors Guide on Youth Social Entrepreneurship and Service Learning by YES Network Pakistan. 7. Pilot-testing of the curriculum and instructors guide material. 8. Revision of the curriculum and instructors guide in the light of pilot-testing. 9. A series of training workshops for focal persons of the Vocational Training Institutes on curriculum and instructors guide. 10. Printing and distribution of the material. 11. Training workshops by focal persons in their respective institutions to equip and engage their faculties for imparting education on social entrepreneurship and for engaging students in service learning projects.