In 2010, The Park Navi Mumbai collaborated with International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF) to launch a Youth Career Initiative (YCI) in our hotel and enhance the employment opportunities of disadvantaged youth living in semi-urban Mumbai. Run by IBLF, YCI is a unique capacity-building programme. This initiative works on the foundation of a robust partnership between IBLF and the international hotel industry of 11 countries and provides life and work skills training and career enhancement opportunities to underprivileged youth.

YCI is a 24-week education programme that provides disadvantaged young people with life and work skills. The purpose is to empower young participants to make informed career choices and realise the options available to them, enabling them to improve their employability and enhance their long-term social and economic opportunities. In India this was a unique partnership between the hotel industry and a locally based community organisation, Kherwadi Social Welfare Association. This country pilot programme in India mobilized the human, financial and technical resources of our hotel, as well as, partner hotels and provided 47 young people with on-the-job and classroom-based training. The programme also imparted valuable life and vocational skills that the candidates otherwise may not have had access to.