Tailoring Training for Self-Reliance of Rural Women

12 March 2022, Amrit Nagar (Hazaribagh): With support of SIDBI & Usha International Limited, 9-days residential Usha Swavalamban Silai School Teachers Training is going on by NBJK for total 50 trainee women from Tatijahriya, Ichak and Churchu blocks of Hazaribagh district.

The trainees are getting specifics related to sewing machine maintenance, making of different female-male garments and useful items like bag & mask along with life skills. UIL will provide a new sewing machine with stitching kit, a signboard of Usha Swavalamban Silai School and a guidebook on tailoring to each trainee so that they can start their own Siali School at their places for garments making as well as a training center for neighborhood women-girls commercially.

Mrs. Pammi Devi (Trainer, UIL) says that life skills have been added purposely in curriculum to make the trainees more professional and raise their income through better customer relation. Other trainer Mrs. Mamta Devi calls the exercise as complete & practical to empower these women minutely with dexterity they are learning here.

The training began on 8th March and will end on 16th. Mr. Harish Kumar (Senior Manager, UIL), Mr. Felix Tirkey (Program Coordinator, UIL), Mr. Ankit Anurag (Program Manager, NBJK) and Mr. Shailesh Kumar (Program Coordinator, NBJK) contribute to the program.