Our Hospitality and Construction programs in a glance

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Mangal
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Devidas
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PACE Construction Program
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Hospitality Industry - Future
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PACE Hospitality Program
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Vaibhav whose family income was below poverty line, now heads the Bakery department at reputed hotel

Vaibhav's family belongs to the Below Poverty Line (BPL) category and he was struggling to make a living within his own vicinity. Despite many obstacles, he finally managed to complete his SSC and HSC under the Maharashtra Board. One day he visited our PACE Hospitality Training Center, Satara and decided to pursue a career in the Hospitality industry. He joined the 1st Batch, and completed the course with flying colours. After the completion of the course he got placed in Lemon Tree, Aurangabad as a trainee in the food and beverage service department for a month. Post his training in Aurangabad, he was trained at the Lagoona City Resort at Lonavala for a year in the Bakery and Confectionery department. During this period he honed his skills as a bakery chef and was placed in the Blue Oceans Resort and Spa, Ganpatipule, Ratnagiri, where he now heads the entire bakery and confectionary department. His cost to company is Rs.9500 per month. It is remarkable to see a person whose income was once below the poverty line, grow so quickly and successfully in the field of hospitality. He plans to open his own bakery in the near future. We hope and believe that the success story of Vaibhav will be an inspiration to all the students of Pace Hospitality Centers all across the country.

MasterCard's community day with Pratham

MasterCard's representatives visited our vocational skilling center at Chembur, Mumbai on the 7th of Sept, 2012. As a part of their CSR initiative, they wished to celebrate their community day with our students. Their delegation included Mr. T.V.Seshadri - Division President, South Asia, MasterCard Worldwide, Ms. Aashna Roy - CSR Head, South Asia, and a few of their colleagues from the Mumbai office.

They shared inspirational industry insights with our students while mentoring and interacting with them. It was heart warming to see how engaged the MasterCard representatives were in regards to our students' everyday stories and challenges. They were deeply concerned with the real world challenges that the students face and wanted to do all that they could to help. One of the representatives even offered to counsel our students to cope with on-the-job issues that they might face after completing our courses.

Mangla overcomes her obstacles with great self - confidence

Hi, I’m Mangla Meher, a student of PACE Hospitality Training Center in Udaipur. I belong to Mathania, a small village in the Jhalawad district of Rajasthan. My family has 5 members including my father, who is paralyzed, my mother who is a homemaker, my brother who is married yet unemployed, and my uncle who is a farmer and who is the only earning member in the family. I completed my education till the 12th grade with great difficulty. I helped my uncle in his daily agricultural activities but the monetary yield was not enough to feed my entire family. Hence, I decided to take up a full-time job but found that I did not have the required skills.

Coincidentally, around that time I met Arjun Sir (Pratham mobilizer) who came to my village to inform us about the PACE hospitality training program. He gave me a ray of hope and I immediately wanted to enroll myself. Though I did not know much about hospitality and about the placement prospects, I knew I would be pursuing the course to help my family financially and this motivated me to join the course.

Bhuneshwari dares to go against the norms

Bhuneshwari, who is just 20 years old, comes from Biretara, a remote village in Dhamtari , Chhattisgarh. Most of the women in her community are involved in agriculture or manual labor. They are usually unable to pursue proper education and end up in unskilled jobs. Bhuneshwari also had no choice but to do the same after she passed her 12th standard exams from the Chhattisgarh State Board.

She did not personally like the menial work she did, and wanted to use her formal education to build her career, but did not know how to go about it. One day, she ran into one of the Pratham mobilizers who went to her neighbourhood to mobilize students. She got intrigued by the hospitality training that was provided at Pratham's centers and convinced her parents to enrol her for the course at PACE Aurangabad Hospitality Training Center. She had never travelled outside her village, but for the first time she travelled alone to Aurangabad, which was more than 800 kms away from her village. It was simply unheard of for the women in her village to find work elsewhere, but Bhuneshwari dared to go against the norms.