From empowering trans entrepreneurs in West Bengal to reviving Khneng embroidery in Meghalaya, Usha Silai Schools partner with govt bodies to skill 1000s of women

Annapurna Mukherjee's Bandhu Purulia fights stigma in rural West Bengal with Ek Prayas—a centre aiding 73 kids via early interventions, skill-building, etc

From West Bengal's transgender tailors to Telangana's tribal seamstresses and Meghalaya's embroidery revivalists, Usha Silai School's Kushalta Ke Kadam partners with NIRDPR and state governments

In West Bengal's Siliguri, Usha Silai School, in collaboration with Lions Club, is transforming lives by equipping women with sewing skills, fostering financial independence and self-reliance

Through partnerships and collaborations, USHA is looking at endless possibilities for strengthening existing Silai School women entrepreneurs so that they earn more, become more self-reliant, and become capable of shaping a better future on their own by developing skills in other women

The success of teaching women Kantha through the USHA Silai Schools in West Benal villages is an example of helping them develop their inherent latent potentials. And helping women become self-sufficient and earning members of their families

USHA SIlai School initiative, in partnership with state governments of Meghalaya and West Bengal, is empowering women by helping them learn various techniques of stitching

#AllForBengal aims to raise funds and help the people of Bengal recover from the devastation caused by Cyclone Amphan

In a bid to contribute to the fight against COVID-19, a cab driver in Kolkata has offered a 50-bed hospital he constructed in his sister's memory to be turned into a Coronavirus quarantine facility. His sister passed away in 2004 due to pneumonia.

According to a member of a students organisation, the aim of the initiative is to help women manage menstruation during lockdown and also to highlight that not only rice, pulses and medicines but sanitary pads are an essential item too

With the common goal of empowering women at the bottom of the pyramid, in 2018 USHA and the West Bengal government collaborated on training stitching to 3,500 women from marginalised communities, by opening another 3,500 training schools in the state, as requested by the state government

With agriculture being one of the primary sources of livelihood in West Bengal, here's how USHA Silai School created an alternative employment in the state