Music is crucial for our work. Youth often use music to express their feelings.

As we have seen on recent TV reality shows some young people have exceptional talents but no training. Our aim is to give them the technical skills.

The music industry is a broad and complex sector and it offers a lot of opportunities. In the near future some stalwarts from the music industry will mentor some young musicians. Besides we also want to collaborate with other music projects for underprivileged youth around the world, such as « Landfill Harmonic Project » in Paraguay.

A specific programme will provide education, mentoring and a job placement in the music industry.

CSSG is supported by internationally famed artists, such as the revered contemporary opera group Divine, which rendered some of their best performance at charity dinners in Delhi and Mumbai in September 2015.

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CSSG & THE CREATIVE SECTORS

At Creative Services Support Group (CSSG) we want to open the way to self-reflection, invention, and creative skills. We have studied the relationship between underprivileged youth and the creative sectors and we have identified the needs. The underprivileged young individuals receive inadequate support and need help to have access to vocational training and mentorship.

Many organizations already work on vocational training, they mainly prepare people for careers as hairdressers or machinists, some of them also provide training in traditional handicrafts or performance art to perpetuate India’s rich cultural heritage.

Our specificity is our upstream work. We don’t provide only vocational training and technical knowledge, we want to awaken and develop the creative skills of these young people. We know

what the opportunities are from a cultural, social , and economic point of view and our approach is new.

By providing opportunities in the creative sectors, CSSG concentrates on a large group of men and women whose talents have never been considered. Everyone cannot become a lawyer or a doctor, fortunately other alternatives exist. Approximately 10% of the underprivileged youth can reach outstanding positions, 40% find their way and get traditional jobs, CSSG focuses on the remaining 50%.

Employment in the creative sectors requires less financial investment than formal academic studies, training can be done on the job and trainees can be helpful, so that the creative sectors are widely open to underprivileged people. Our approach is very efficient, however positioning every creative sector requires around 3 years to be launched, developed, implemented, monitored and evaluated. Specific activities and objectives have to match general objectives, so CSSG has planned a strategy, some sectors are more general and relevant at an early stage whereas other sectors are more specific and adapted to a later stage. In any case most creative sectors are closely related to each other and the development of a particular sector influences the development of other sectors.

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