MSA-VTC has launched its 1st batch in July 2011 with Paramedical courses and since then, the centre has trained more than 1200 tribal students mainly in healthcare such as Dialysis, OT, Laboratory, pharmacy and Bed Side Assistant and 80% of the girls are placed.
MSA VTC has many success stories of these girl students who have not only completed their training but also working in reputed hospitals and clinics in cities with a good salary. They are not only helping their families but also they have become financially independent.
Here are the few wonderful examples of women empowerment!!
There were two sisters who were residents a small village in Chhota Udepur district of Gujarat (Most Tribal Area in Gujarat). The family of 5 lives in a single-room hut and the parents are doing farming in a government provided a small plot of land in the same area. Both sisters were school drop-out because of the financial condition of the family and father used to feel that these girls are extra responsibilities on them.
The elder sister used to get seizure attacks for which doctor from their village condemned her to the life-long ailment. Unfazed by this severe verdict, girls decided to join Muni Seva Ashram Sanchalit Vocational Training Centre. While getting training as a General Duty Assistant at Muni Seva Ashram-Vocational Training Centre, She was also getting treatment for her seizure attacks with proper medications including hospitalization at Kailash Cancer Hospital & Reseach Centre (KCHRC) run by Muni Seva Ashram. Today after completing training successfully she is employed at the same hospital KCHRC as Physician's assistant with the salary of 8000/- month and also while earning she has completed her higher secondary schooling.
Then a few months later, her younger sister also decided to join the VTC and completed her training successfully at MSA-VTC. She was smarter than her sister and eager to learn. After completing training she decided to move to the city and joined a respectable doctor's clinic in Padra place near Vadodara.
23 yeard Girls, who came from a remote village named Moti Umbharvan, Panchmahal District. She lost her parents at a young age and then her grandparent started looking after her and took care of her. She used to visit the hospital at Muni Seva Ashram for her grandfather's cancer treatment. One day she came to VTC office and did inquiry whether she can join the course & become a nursing assistant.
An Orphan girl who came from a farmer family having a very limited resource for the survival of life even with a basic requirements. It is very difficult but somehow she finished her high secondary education schooling at Government school. She got enrolled her self for the course at MSA – VTC. After completion of Training, she is employed at the Chemotherapy department at Kailash Cancer Hospital & Research Centre as Assistant OPD Nurse. She started earning 5000/- month. She not only has started supporting her grandmother but also became financially independent.
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