WOMEN'S CENTER
A centre for nurturing and supporting disadvantaged local women, the women centre was set up in October 2007 . It also runs a very succesful children centre with over 300 children attending our pre-primary, primnary and secondary programmes.
OUR MISSION
Our women centre which was set up on October 15th 2007 vindicated some of our decisions that may have looked hare brained at first. But as is always the case at project why we followed our heart.
To begin with the women's centre is providing shelter to two women who are trying to rebuild their lives. Here our approach is simple and flexible. We provide the space needed for women in difficulties to find their feet. They may at a later stage find their wings and move on, or chose to stay with us and be integrated in the team.
A small creche for working slum mothers - mostly domestic workers - has opened its gates, as well as a primary support outreach and we have almost 300 children in the centre.
Income generating skills have been introduced and we already have sewing and beauty classes and over 60 women are attending these classes |
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A Dynamic Team
A dynamic team steers the Kamala centre: Dharmendra, Manisha, Ashok (stitching), Geeta, Rita, Roshni, Rajesh, Masterji, Archana, Savita (beauty), Parth and Ashish
They are all from the local community and have incredible commitment and passion
Activities for children
A creche for children between the age of 1 to 4 has 15 children. Waiting lists are long but shortage of space does not allow us to ke in more children
A primary outreach in 2 shifts based on our successful pwhy model has also begun and reaches out to almost 300 kids. CLass VI, VII, VIII and IX have also been added as we have a new teacher who can teach these.
Activities for women
Stitching and tailoring classes as well as beauty classes have begun. 60 women are attending the courses that have a duration of 6 months. We also have long waiting lists!
An evening adult education class has also begun and we soon begin english conversation classes on popular demand.
But all these are just ways of getting the confidence and trust of local women.
Our main objective remains to raise awareness on issues we feel are important such as hygiene, nutrition, the girl child, domestic violence, legal rights and HIV AIDS. We plan top introduce these slowly and gently as the social fabric of the area is very conventional and highly charged.
At a later stage we also plan to address issues such as budget management, saving and micro finance
To find out how much we need to run the women centre click here
Sewing Circle of Khader
Beauty Classes
Women Center's Pictures
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