Sneha, a 12-year-old who lost her father, almost lost her life due to traditional beliefs over modern medicine. After her mother attended a health meeting by Allahabad Vocational Training Centre, she sought proper treatment for Sneha's mumps. Sneha recovered, and her mother now regularly attends our meetings, grateful for the timely advice.
Allahabad Vocational Training Centre
Allahabad Vocational Training Centre empowers girls with essential skills, education, and health support for a better future.
Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed.
Psalm 82:3
The Project
In rural Uttar Pradesh, girls and women face severe inequalities, including low literacy rates, social segregation, and violence. The Vocational Training Programme in Phulwariya Village is aimed at girls between the ages of 9-20 years of age, teaching skills like sewing and knitting. Girls who have achieved a level of proficiency earn a stipend while learning, assisting others, and eventually finding work, enhancing their financial independence and self-esteem.
Objectives
- Teach beginner girls fundamental stitching and embroidery techniques.
- Advance girls to drafting and garment cutting on paper in the middle group.
- Promote to senior group once confident, where they learn to cut and stitch garments.
- Introduce various designs for making women’s clothing.
With your support, the Allahabad Vocational Training Centre has provided vocational skills to girls and young women, including sewing, dressmaking, and knitting. Through the Earn While You Learn scheme, these girls gain practical experience, receive a stipend, and enhance their financial independence. Thank you for empowering them to overcome barriers and achieve greater self-reliance.
Impact
The Allahabad Vocational Training Centre empowers 250 girls annually with skills in tailoring and literacy, essential medical care, and prevention. This initiative helps combat the severe gender inequalities in rural Uttar Pradesh, where women face social segregation, educational deprivation, and violence, fostering economic independence and personal growth for these marginalized women.
Annually we need to raise NZD 15,000 to continue providing education and skills for girls and young women in Allahabad, India. Your support can empower more women, reduce the gender gap, and foster economic independence in these marginalized communities.
Mahi’s path to empowerment
Mahi, a girl from Mallahtola, lived with her family of nine in a one-room mud hut that leaked during the rainy season. Her father had become very ill, forcing her mother to sell vegetables to support the family. Her mother also took out a loan for her elder daughter’s medical treatment after a severe accident, adding financial strain. Unable to afford school for her children, her mother enrolled Mahi and her sisters in the Allahabad Vocational Training Programme.
Initially, Mahi was quiet and withdrawn, often crying when spoken to. However, over the years, she made significant progress. She began to enjoy attending the centre, helping other girls, and developing an interest in her studies, particularly in Hindi and poetry. Mahi also embraced painting, dancing, and eating fruits. She taught her mother what she learned and now aspires to become a doctor to assist the poor.
Donate today to support the Allahabad Vocational Training Centre, where vulnerable girls and women in India receive an education, vocational skills and medical care.
We aim to raise NZD 15,000 annually to continue providing 250 girls with essential skills and education. Your support can empower these girls, enhance their opportunities, and contribute to a more literate and economically stable community.
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