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PROJECT DETAILS

  

PARAS India in association with Usha International Limited is running several Silai schools in slum areas of Delhi NCR since 2017. It is a community based initiative with the aim of skilling disadvantaged women and empowering them to become entrepreneurs. Women are taught stitching and sewing skills to help them earn a livelihood in their respective communities.

With such silai schools, these women would be empowered socially and economically. These women would then either be self-employed or placed with other entrepreneurs.

The project provides women with:

  • Training in sewing techniques and machine handling

  • A Usha sewing machine to begin their journey

  • Skills in entrepreneurship, financial literacy, and community outreach

  • The opportunity to establish their own Silai Schools, where they can train others, generate income, and become catalysts of change in their villages

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OBJECTIVES:

  • To empower marginalized women through vocational skillset of Sewing

  • To nurture grassroots women entrepreneurship by setting up independent SILAI SCHOOLS

  • To promote financial inclusion and literacy

  • To strengthen community-based, peer-led training ecosystems

  • To bridge the gender gap in economic participation

  • To foster self-confidence, leadership, and social inclusion

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ACHIEVEMENTS

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  • We had started with 10 schools initially and have reached to 28 at present with 28 independent women running their Silai schools employing multiple other women. These schools have a way to every household where women feel empowered and have the zeal to face the world.

  • With a total of 28 Silai schools running, more than 1060 women have been benefited by this venture.

  • Women have become active contributor in running households and their income counts. Their voice too counts.

  • Women are able to fund for the education of their children independently.

  • Successful examples of women working with us had initiated with a single Silai machine and have expanded their scope of work to   become a self- employed entrepreneur.

 

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