Gender Equality India Project #31530

Livelihood Promotion of Marginalised Slum Women

by Trivandrum Don Bosco Veedu Society

Livelihood Promotion of Marginalised Slum Women

Project Report | Mar 27, 2019
Tailoring Training for 25 women

By Fr. Thomas P.D | Director, Don Bosco Veedu Society

Tailoring Training

About the project

A tailoring centre with sewing machine was setup at Don Bosco Veedu manacaud for training the unemployed women from Karimadom colony. About 25 women from the colony enrolled into the training program. The 25 women where divided into two shifts:

Morning Shift- in the morning shift there are 13 women attending the training. This 13 of them are having school going children, so that the timing of 10 AM- 1 PM was prefered by them. Project helped them to choose the timings according to their preference; this strategy was very useful to maintain the regularity of participants attending the training.

Afternoon Shift: The afternoon shift starts from 1 P.M to 4 P.M. There are 12 women attending the training at this time.

Selection of the participants

The participants where selected through the interest analysis conducted among the unemployed women karimadom colony and identified that 50 unemployed women are interested in the tailoring training.

Steps involved in recruiting women into the first batch

The 50 unemployed women from the colony where invited for an open- air meeting at Karimadom colony. Don Bosco director Fr. Thomas P.D interacted with the aspiring candidates. He also discussed about the plan to conduct two batches of tailoring training in the months of December 2018 and February 2019.

Accordingly, they themselves decided on the month of joining the training, and list was prepared.

Execution of the training program

The training program was innagurated by Fr. Thomas P.D (Director, Don Bosco). On the innagural speech, he discussed about the terms and condition followed in the tailoring training class.

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Dec 31, 2018
Keen to serve - KEEN Service

By PD Thomas | Director

Oct 4, 2018
DB KEEN Naturals- An Empowerment Model

By Fr. Thomas P.D | Director, Don Bosco Veedu Society

Process Flow Chart- DB KEEN Naturals

DON BOSCO KEEN Naturals

The Don Bosco KEEN Naturals (DB KEEN Naturals) was established in 2018, August with the mission of making Food Processing training conducted as part of the Entrepreneurship Development Program of the KEEN project to a better future for 10 of grassroots food processors (Producers). The KEEN Naturals is an autonomous society consists of the producers as top level management and Trivandrum Don Bosco Veedu Society as a partner in networking with the market. The KEEN natural’s programmes and activities seek to strengthen the functioning of producers by providing them financial assistance and technical expertise in food production, sales and marketing and thereby increasing the incomes of the producers

Don Bosco KEEN naturals having an outlet at Don Bosco Veedu which is at the city centre of Manacaud, Trivandrum Central. The KEEN Naturals used to have exhibitions of natural products during the festival season. In the month of August (Dates: 21, 22, 23) a stall was arranged at the putharikandam maithanam in Trivandrum durring the onam season.

KEEN Naturals team decided to go with the exhibitions at Putharikandom Maithanam, a place having an open auditorium with events such as circus, textile expo, government exhibition etc. The expo’s at the Putharikandom is a target place where we could find more lovers for 100 percent natural products.

The producers affiliated with DB KEEN naturals were provided with Rs. 4000 as the matching grant for starting up the food processing unit by Don Bosco Veedu society on behalf of the KEEN initiative. The producers were supported with designing the labels and arranged attractive packaging for the natural’s products.

Role and Responsibilities of the stake holders in DB KEEN Naturals

Producers

o Producers are responsible for the procurement of raw materials and its processing

o The food items processed, packed and labeled by the producer/manufacturer

o Ensuring the timely supply of the food products to the DB KEEN naturals

DB KEEN Naturals

o Financial assistance to the producers in terms of matching grants

o Desigining of attractive labels for the products produced by the producers

o Marketing of the products produced by the affiliated producers in DB KEEN naturals

o Finding the appropriate market place for the selling of the natural products produced by the producers

o Collabrating with government trade fairs for setting-up the stalls durring the festive season

o To conduct the feedback/ progress meeting with the producers

o Division of profit earned by the DB KEEN Naturals to its producers

DB KEEN Naturals earned a gross profit of 20,000 rupees from its sales. The gross profit is being shared among its producers. Your noble support and contributions made us to create an impact in the livelihood of these marginalized women from the slum.

Products Available in the outlets of KEEN Natural

Producers affiliated with DB KEEN Naturals

Various products of DB KEEN Naturals

Women selling products - putharikandam Trade fair

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