By Dr Ravi S Kumar | CEO & Managing Trustee
Freedom For You is very fortunate to have been selected by GlobalGiving UK under its Field Evaluation Programme, wherein GGUK sends its experts to the selected Non-profit for an on-the-ground assessment. Despite doing a high quality vetting of its non-profit profits which gives donors the confidence to give to smaller, unknown organizations that do great work, GGUK has made its evaluation process even more robust by sending field evaluation volunteers to conduct evaluations in person. These assessments provide many benefits for both the project partners and GGUK. Besides fostering closer relationships, it ensures a strong assessment of project's transparency and effectiveness on various aspects including project impact, organizational effectiveness, financial transparency, and accountability.
Mr Charles and Ms Elizabeth visited our non-profit between Aug15 and Aug 20, 2016 and conducted the Field Evaluation Programme for GGUK. This programme will add immense value to Freedom For You in the days to come, in all its future projects and also in the qualitative aspects of management of the non-profit.
Freedom For You has been training marginalized women in slums in Navi Mumbai in Basic and Advanced tailoring skills. On the Indian Independence Day, August 15, 2016, Freedom For You inaugurated its second Skill Development Center at Sai Baba Nagar Slums in Rabale, Navi Mumbai, by the hands of Ms Elizabeth, and in the presence of Mr Charles, Trustees, volunteers, general public, and most importantly the potential marginalized women who would be the trainees at this second Skill Development Center.
At present, about 15 women are undergoing training in basic tailoring in this center and many more are expected to join soon after the end of the current Monsoon season. All these women will be trained for over 3 months and are expected to excel by becoming dress designer and/or bag designers. Freedom For You hope that with your continued support, we will be able to start a couple of more Skill Development Centres in the coming quarter elsewhere in Navi Mumbai to increase our positive impact.
Meanwhile, women from the first Skill Development Centre are already making children’s dress, petticoats, and jute bags, seen in the enclosed photos. A few well-wishers of our non-profit are already talking to us for placing orders for designer jute bags and these orders will help the marginalized women become economically independent and thrive.
Finally, we are pleased to let you know that Freedom For You has achieved "SUPESTAR" in GlobalGiving’s Reward Status. This further strengthens our image with its Donors - YOU All :). Without you, Freedom For You would not have been able to take up this very important project to empower marginalized women into business entrepreneurs. We are very proud as SUPERSTAR status is the highest of the GGUK Reward status that a non-profit partner can achieve. Freedom For You has also qualified for Charity Aid Foundation, USA for receiving donations from US individuals who can now make a 100% tax efficient donation.
Freedom For You is grateful for your continued generous support at all times!
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