Insight into the limitations of the existing approaches for skill development and vocational education has convinced Lend A Hand India (LAHI) to focus on enabling secondary school students to gain multi occupational and real life skills, in their formative years. LAHI sees existing schools as ideal spaces to implement this. LAHI believes that real life skill education could naturally complement existing educational curriculum to make content more relevant to the local environment and provide students with a more hands on experience. LAHI collaborated with other organizations to develop a curriculum that took into consideration the rural and urban environments, to introduce students to theory and practice on subjects such as basic engineering, energy, environment, agriculture, animal husbandry, gardening and landscaping, and home and health science. The program’s main objective is to address the disconnect between the education imparted in the schools and the skills needed in real life by incorporating job and life skills training, through learning by doing method, as a part of the secondary school curriculum.