Create Livelihood for 200 Women - Stitching and Tailoring

Objective of the Project:

Create livelihood for poor women who have either lost their jobs due to Covid-19 or not getting any suitable employment.

CHALLENGE:

Women living in urban slums are the worst affected due to Covid19 pandemic. They are facing multiple problems. Initial help from NGOs and the local governments is not sufficient and may not last too long. While their husbands have lost their jobs, they have also been unable to work as house-maids or domestic helps due to fear of spreading infections. Their jobs are not likely to return for a very long time. These women are uneducated and many of them are also single parent. This has compounded their problems and has made their life all the more difficult.

The solution lies in up-skilling the women for alternate source of livelihood and get them suitably employed. Considering their learning ability and aptitude, they can easily pick up and complete the courses designed around Stitching & Tailoring. The brilliant ones can also work on Fashion Maker and up-skill themselves for better opportunity in apparel industry. They would also have the option to start their own tailoring shops with financial assistance.

Project Description:

• Stitching & Tailoring project will enhance vocational skills & knowledge amongst women & adolescent girls, who come from economically backward and weaker section of the society and are living in the nearby slums at Kalkaji, New Delhi.
• 3 months Certificate Course and 6 months Diploma Course will be conducted and the successful candidates will be given the appropriate course completion certificates after they clear the exams successfully.
• Sewing machines and financial assistance will be provided to successful trainees as per availability of the finance.
• The project will also strive to improve their entrepreneurship & employment skills & empower them taking decision about themselves & make them self-reliant.
• The project will assist and connect them with the prospective employers in the apparel industry for suitable employment in shops and factories.
• This project will be implemented by PRAJNA FOUNDATION by a professional project team constituted for the implementation, management & monitoring of the project.
• The project aims to benefit 100 women and young girls every six months and help them to break the cycle of poverty.
• The project team will continuously monitor the training program and submit periodic progress reports.

IMPACT: 

The trainees will get engaged in gainful employment. It will help them to come out of the poverty and make them self-reliant and self-confidant. The economically empowered girls and women will have cascading impact on the society. An economic independent young girl will also help her to escape pre-mature marriage and motherhood. She will be more likely to support and empower all her children, and her daughters will also escape the cycle of early marriage and pregnancy that traps generations in abject poverty.