HOLY HOME is widening livelihood options, as one of the key adopted strategies, both farm and non-farm sectors for reducing poverty in the remote underdeveloped tribal pockets of Odisha. Popularization of sustainable agriculture practices, conservation of natural resources, promotion of people’s organization like Self-help group (SHG), farmers group, primary producers groups and their federations, facilitation of people’s access to institutional finance and government schemes, enhancement of market linkages and provision of skill-building support for promotion of off and non-farm micro enterprise/ social enterprise are some of the key elements in this pursuit. Thus HOLY HOME’s livelihood strategy focuses on household food and nutrition security and expanding income earning opportunities for rural poor, more particularly tribal.

In addition to optimizing employment generation in agriculture and allied sectors, HOLY HOME also strives hard to help the landless households, agricultural labourers, and small and marginal landowners explore opportunities in the largely untapped non-farm sector. Providing capacity building support and ensuring better access to market form the components of this strategy. All along, a great deal of emphasis is placed on ensuring food security through promotion of diverse and multi-cropping.

Through evidence based research the issues are identified to take up advocacy for a pro-poor policy in livelihoods. Emphasis is made on convergence with mainstream development programmes and other stakeholders for program sustainability

Distress employment and labour migration among women is random in KBK district. Holy Home works to address problem by enhancing of employability for livelihood of underprivileged women and youth who lacks education and proper guidance for employable skills; thus are branded ‘unemployable’” in Nuapada district of Odisha.

Holy Home through Jan Shikshan Sansthan Programme aims at creating a pool of young men and women through skill enhancement in tandem with local resource, market requirements. It is an effort towards bridging the gap between demand and supply of skilled manpower to start their venture to produce service and goods at local level or sell their skill to earn livelihood.

Per year about 1,800 youth and women have been skilled in different vocational trades and they have started their ventures or employed in some enterprises as skilled workers.