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USHA Silai Hero: Here Is How Prabha Dhanga, A Tribal Woman From Jharkhand Has Emerged As A Leader
Written by Barkha Mathur | Thursday December 30, 2021USHA Silai School programme became a turning point in the life of Prabha Dhanga who lives inside the deep forests of West Singhbhum District in Jharkhand
- Written by Barkha Mathur | Tuesday December 28, 2021
Tribal Exclusive USHA Silai School Initiative helped Phemo Manham, a 25-year-old tribal woman from Arunachal Pradesh become an entrepreneur and a role model for others
- Written by Barkha Mathur | Wednesday December 22, 2021
Here is the story of USHA Silai Hero, Chandam Sunita Devi, who has proved that one does not need a degree in designing to become a successful fashion entrepreneur
- Written by Barkha Mathur | Friday December 24, 2021
Meet Kusum Devi, a master of an ancient form of embroidery from Bihar called Sujani, who fought against all odds to make a name for herself
- Written by Barkha Mathur | Tuesday December 21, 2021
Hasuben Mohanbhai Rabari from Gujarat learnt traditional embroidery from her mother. She now uses this knowledge along with the sewing skills she learnt from USHA Silai School to create finished products and earns about Rs 10,000 per month
- Written by Aastha Ahuja | Tuesday December 14, 2021
To enable and empower the unemployed youth of Meghalaya, especially women and girls, with skill training, Galaxy Enterprise in partnership with the USHA Silai School Program opened a training and production centre at Tura
- Written by Aishwarya Upadhyay | Tuesday December 14, 2021
Sankalp was established in 2011 with an aim to promote social justice, particularly in underprivileged districts, where malnutrition, education, and any higher opportunity of income, is not available
- Written by Barkha Mathur | Thursday December 16, 2021
The USHA Silai training and production centre at Bhagwan Singh Memorial Foundation in Punjab is specially designed to give an advanced training of 15 days to women
- Written by Barkha Mathur | Monday December 06, 2021
USHA Silai School has launched a new mobile App to enhance women's skills amid pandemic, connect them with the online market
- Written by Barkha Mathur | Thursday December 02, 2021
USHA Silai School teacher Jayashree Ghodvinde of Raigad, Maharashtra took to stitching and became the sole breadwinner for her family when her husband lost his job shortly after their marriage
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Kushalta Ke Kadam, an initiative by USHA Silai School and NDTV has entered its eighth season. The aim is to empower more women across rural India by teaching them sewing skills and helping them open new doors of opportunities for themselves. The initiative encourages rural women to become financially independent and entrepreneurs by taking up sewing and training others in their respective communities.
Since 2011, the USHA Silai School initiative has trained more than 12 lakh rural women through over 33,000 Silai schools, spanning over 20,751 villages across India.
The women earn Rs. 4,000 – 5,000 per month on an average, with the highest recorded monthly earning being Rs. 84,000 in a month. This earning works as a catalyst towards building their self-confidence, reducing gender inequities, and raising their stature within their families and in society at large.
Kushalta ke Kadam: Aiming for Independence Through Stitching
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.