Empowering 280 Women for Employment

Progress Report – Women Empowerment Program

New Initiatives and Activities: During the last quarter the reach of our women Empowerment program was enhanced with the Launch of a new skill centre at Behrampur Colony, Ghaziabad, India in March 2017. With an enrolment capacity of 400 students the centre today has 41 women undergoing various courses under Project “Pragati”.

We also set-up our first centre to Skill Specially-abled at Sadarpur Colony in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India and was formally launched on 17th November 2016 under Project “Samaan”. We started with 35 students who are being trained on IT skills, Tailoring and Hospitality courses.

Two new courses in Beauty and Wellness as well as hospitablity were launched at our Sadarpur Centre in Noida to increase self-employment opprtunities for Women

Nithari Skill Centre: The Quarter also marked the Commencement of two new courses at Our Skill Centre at Nithari under Project “Saksham” in Tailoring and Basic Computer Skills, a program for Under-served women were we are giving training to women to make them self-employed and become independent in their lives. Currently we have 56 women coming in three shifts in three months course for the tailoring course and another 40 are attending the Basic IT skills course.

Sadarpur Skill Centre: Activities at the at Sadarpur Multi Skill centre continued with the launch of new batch launches in IT, Tailoring and GDA courses with 80 students undertaking training in IT, 24 in GDA and 75 students in Tailoring. In the Basic IT course at Nithari Centre we have 97 students out of which 14 in Tally course.

Volunteering : At the Skill Centres Volunteering Peaked during the Quarter, At the skill centers we had sessions on soft skills, interview skills, time management and career guidance wherein learning was imparted to Skill Centre Students by Volunteers from Tata Tele services, Cognizant, Price Waterhouse Coopers.

Convocations and Placement
During this quarter 40 students got placed from IT course and 10 students from GDA course were placed into Jobs in various organisations with salaries ranging from Rs 5500 to Rs 16000 a month.

At the convocations held during the quarter Certificates were distributed to Students of Smile Step course at Nithari Centre, GDA students and Tailoring Students at Sadarpur Centre on clearing their assessment.