Empower Young Rural Women with Vocational Training

Muni Seva Ashram (MSA) is a not-for-profit that works tirelessly for the upliftment of the rural students to improve socio-economic conditions and providing high-quality employment by providing training in hands-on skills such as Nursing Assistant, OT Assistant, Phlebotomy Assistant etc.

We have trained 2934 students till November 2021. On November 7, 95 girls joined the 6-month residential training program.  This brought the total number of students currently being trained at the centre to 166. 

Just hands-on-skills are not enough to survive & flourish in today's ultra competitive environment.  To this end, the centre has dedicated daily 1 hour for personality development classes and every Saturday afternoon for imparting soft skills during which seminars and workshop are held for emotional balance, personality development, social skills, career counseling etc.

Financial literacy is the foundation of our relationship with money, as it is a lifelong journey of learning. The earlier you start, the better off you will be because education is the key to success.  Just earning is not enough, managing finances is at the heart of material well-being.

On 11th December 2021, Saturday, a workshop was held on Financial Literacy. Speakers were invited from ICICI Foundation, the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) arm of one of the largest commercial, banks in India.

Mr. Kamal Makwana, the Central Head/Centre-in-charge of the Vadodara ICICI Foundation and his colleague held the two-hour workshop.  The students learnt to manage their personal financial & management responsibilities, budgeting & basic savings, investing techniques, government schemes, risks & rewards and online transactions.

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As the second Pandemic wave hit India like a tsunami, hospitals ran out of Oxygen, ICU beds, and healthcare workers.  Our Vocational Training Centre trains rural youth to become frontline health workers.  For the past 14 months, they have been working at city hospitals that are overflowing with Corona patients.

These health workers hail from villages and stay in rented rooms in the city.  Typically 4 or 5 stay in a room.  When one of them gets infected with COVID, she has very few options.  She can not continue staying in the shared room, nor can she return back to her village where the entire family lives in a hut.

The VTC has set a standard to provide hand-holding support for 12-18 months after training completion.  We have decided to provide these girls complete support while they recover.

Here is the story of Karena (name changed to protect privacy), one of our Corona warriors.  After finishing training at our Training center she was placed at a well-known hospital in Vadodara. She had been working there for a year and a half.  She started showing symptoms on 20th April and asked the doctor for a leave.  The doctor didn’t even have the courtesy of paying for the RT-PCR test. On the 24th she paid 20% of her monthly salary to get tested.  It came positive.  She called her doctor for help.  The doctor denied it and told her to go to her home.  The doctor didn't even think how a Corona-positive patient could travel hundreds of miles to go to a rural village.

In a panic, she called us. We dispatched an ambulance the same day and provided her with isolation, shelter, food, and medical treatment - all at our cost.  We have many girls like Karena needing mental, emotional, physical & financial support.  We are so happy to lend them a helping hand.  It is indeed your donation that is making it happen. 

Thank you.