Project Asha: Embroidery Training to underpriviledged women

SIFE and "Women Empowerment"
Thats what Project Asha is all about...

Objective:
"Empower women from deprived sections by providing embroidery design skills and basic infrastructure and ensure a business process to market their products."

Our aim would be to help achieve the following things:
Help develop specific skill sets
Help them understand the business process and how markets work
Eventually, help them gain confidence to earn on their own and face the world with confidence.

Service and Methodology:
High end embroidery training to be given to women. The women will be selected from the SHG which is in the process of being formed through SAHAS(Somaiya Action for HIV/AIDS Support). We have identified the trainer, Mrs Kumud Kapadia who has agreed to train the women for a period of two months. Initially a group of 5 will be trained at the trainers house , 2 days per week.
Depending on the skillset achieved, the trainer herself will provide part of her work to them.On successful completion of the initial work, we plan to rope in bulk orders from the market.Side by side, we plan to provide training classes in financial literacy ,marketing skills and help them understand how markets work.

TimeLine:
Training will commence on January 4th,2007.