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Previewed At Lakme Fashion Week In 2018, Silai Label Transforms Lives Of Women From Rural India
Written by Barkha Mathur , Edited by Sonia Bhaskar | Wednesday January 30, 2019From struggling to make ends meet to creating clothes for a fashion label and walking the ramp at Lakme Fashion Week last year Sunita, Santosh, and Raziaben were among 32 women who lived a dream through silai label
Written by Somya Srivastava , Edited by Sonia Bhaskar | Monday February 04, 20192006 brought Nithari, Uttar Pradesh, into the headlines and presented the world with one of the most convoluted and inhuman stories of violence and murder ever
Written by Somya Srivastava , Edited by Gopi Karelia | Friday June 08, 2018With 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
Written by Somya Srivastava , Edited by Sonia Bhaskar | Monday May 28, 2018USHA Silai Sschool is helping women in Nagaland carve out their own destinies through stitching and sewing
Written by Somya Srivastava , Edited by Sonia Bhaskar | Wednesday May 09, 2018Men from rural parts of Tamil Nadu have enrolled themselves for the USHA Silai School programme and are now earning a stable income meet their household expenses
Written by Somya Srivastava , Edited by Sonia Bhaskar | Friday April 27, 2018Women from four different zones collaborated with prestigious fashion designers and launched their own clothing line Silai that was displayed at the Lakme Fashion Week 2018. Here's their rags to riches story
Written by Somya Srivastava , Edited by Sonia Bhaskar | Saturday April 21, 2018The migration rate in some of the villages of Andhra Pradesh have seen a dip after the state partnered with USHA Silai school to set up training centres that not only improve the skills of rural women and men but also enable them to become financially independent
Written by Aastha Ahuja , Edited by Sonia Bhaskar | Friday April 20, 2018 , DelhiDespite being disabled herself and a wife of a mentally challenged husband, Rekhaben took charge of her family
Written by Aastha Ahuja , Edited by Sonia Bhaskar | Thursday April 19, 2018Determined to uplift her economic condition and provide a better life to her family, Laboni turned her hobby into her profession and opened her own sewing school in 2016
Written by Gopi Karelia , Edited by Sonia Bhaskar | Thursday April 19, 2018Santosh Kumawat from Jaipur district has trained over 100 women in the last five years and aims to pass on her sewing skill to as many rural women as possible
Written by Gopi Karelia , Edited by Sonia Bhaskar | Thursday April 19, 2018Daily wage labourer Sunita kumawat dared to dream big and Silai School gave wings to her dreams
Written by Aastha Ahuja , Edited by Sonia Bhaskar | Thursday April 19, 2018After the demise of her parents, Ayesha was left alone as her siblings either got married or moved out of their village in search of work
Written by Aastha Ahuja , Edited by Sonia Bhaskar | Thursday April 19, 2018Determined to provide a better future to her children, A. Metildamary from Viluppuram district of Tamil Nadu, joined USHA Silai school in December 2013
Written by Aastha Ahuja , Edited by Sonia Bhaskar | Thursday April 19, 2018From being dependent on in-laws for fulfilling family's basic needs to earning Rs. 20,000 a month, E. Iruthayamary from Pondicherry did it all alone
Do you want to be a part of the huge change that Usha Silai School is bringing about in the lives of millions of rural women? With just a simple click of a button, you can now contribute towards the opening of an Usha Silai School or support various other aspects of the school.
Kushalta Ke Kadam, an initiative by NDTV and USHA, aims at empowering women from rural India and encourages them to become entrepreneurs by taking up sewing and training others in their respective communities. Since 2011 Usha Silai Campaign has trained more than 3.95 lakh rural women within five years, with 17,000 Silai schools, spanning over 9272 Indian villages in India.
Kushalta Ke Kadam in Season 4 has returned with new goals and vision. The new season will witness the establishment of the new cluster in Kashmir, apart from the existing four clusters setup last year. The women from volatile Kashmir will work with well-known fashion designer Rohit Bal and get an unique opportunity to learn from him and make clothes for him. The work done by the Silai School women will be presented at Lakme Fashion week 2019.
Rebari girls grow up learning traditional embroidery, which along with their new found sewing skills developed at Usha Silai Schools, is helping them earn a living.
Usha Silai School has empowered many rural women to support their family and send their children to school.
The Usha Silai School, established in a small nondescript village that goes by the name of Kottai, is helping empower people from varied communities.
The all-inclusive Usha Silai School Programme covers the entire nation from hamlets tucked between hills to villages cast by the sea.
Vegetables farmers from the Mizoram hills earn very little given the topography of the area. Usha Silai Schools have played an important part in this region by skilling women to financially contribute towards their households.
Usha Silai School learner Lucy has trained seven other women in her community, helping them to become financially independent.
Women like Kaviben from the nomadic Rebari community are finally laying down their roots as they begin to gain financial independence and thereby stability through Usha Silai School.
Usha Silai School, located in the Gujarat's Bhuj village, is enabling rural women to earn as much as Rs. 2,500-4,000 each month.
Usha Silai School, in association with a Gujarat based NGO called Kala Raksha, is trying to bring about a Silai revolution in Bhuj.
Besides training other women from their community, many Usha Silai School learners have become entrepreneurs in their own right.
With sewing becoming easily accessible and lucrative, the silai schools are also helping revive traditional motifs and designs.
Rohit Bal
Sayantan Sarkar
Shaila Khubchandani
Sreejith Jeevan
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