The
Rural Centre
Krishnamurti Foundation India,Rajghat Fort Varanasi,
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The woman in family makes a significant contribution to the
well being of the family members. If woman is empowered, the
whole family gets benefited. The Centre has realized this
value and is making concerted efforts to empower women from
neighbouring villages.
The Centre has established a Unit for Women Empowerment in
the year 1994. For a decade the Unit had engaged women in
training on various skills such as making cloth bags, designing
the bed sheets, wall hangings, etc. A designer was appointed
in 2004 to train impart skills on designing. Since then the
focus was shifted to making ready made garments. Presently,
there are 17 young women are getting trained. And so far the
unit has trained more than 500 women in various trades and
50 women particularly in tailoring. The ready made garments
stitched by these skilled women will be marketed through exhibitions
organized both inside and outside of the campus. The women
earn additional income to supplement family's income. The
Centre is trying to support these women to become economically
independent.
Taking cognizant of size of the women population in the villages,
the Centre's scale of efforts is small although it is quite
significant.
Future Plans
In order to reach out to the larger section of this folk,
the Centre has plans to
* Conduct awareness programme on benefits of forming self-help
groups in collaboration with other organisations and
institutions for training and upgradation of skills of these
members.
* Accessing and developing new markets linkages for sales
promotion.
* Creating awareness on women health and sanitation.
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