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Stitching A Brighter Future: Enabling Women In Odisha Through The USHA Silai School
Team NDTV | Thursday February 20, 2025USHA partners with Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL) and Gram Utthan to empower women in Odisha through the USHA Silai School, transforming skills into livelihoods and fostering a brighter future
- Team NDTV | Monday February 17, 2025
USHA Silai School empowers rural Odisha women through sewing skills & entrepreneurship. Transforming lives with training, income & community growth
- Team NDTV | Friday February 21, 2025
In the remote region of Kargil, women like Mansura Bano are weaving threads of change and empowerment through the USHA Silai School program. By learning practical skills, these women are transforming their lives and communities
- Team NDTV | Wednesday February 12, 2025
USHA Silai Schools empower women entrepreneurs like Nazima, who are transforming their communities. By providing skills, resources, and a vision for independence, these initiatives create a ripple effect of empowerment and economic growth for future generations
- Team NDTV | Friday February 07, 2025
Discover how USHA partners with Godavari Power & Ispat Ltd. to empower women through skill development, transforming lives and communities in Raipur
- Team NDTV | Thursday February 06, 2025
USHA and Star Cement launch a pioneering project in Northeast India to train men in sewing machine mechanics, empowering rural women and creating new livelihood opportunities
- Team NDTV | Thursday February 06, 2025
Know how USHA Silai School program transforms lives in rural India, empowering women through skill training, community support, and partnerships with corporations and NGOs
- Team NDTV | Tuesday February 04, 2025
Learn how initiatives like USHA Silai School, led by passionate individuals like Sana Aftab and the Kapoors, are empowering women in underserved communities with skills, economic independence, and hope
- Team NDTV | Thursday January 30, 2025
Ismail Khatri, a celebrated Ajrakh artisan from Gujarat, preserves ancient craft and empowers women by providing fabric to USHA Silai Schools, fostering skill development and sustainable livelihoods
- Team NDTV | Thursday January 30, 2025
Empowering women through skill development, Bharat to India Connect and USHA Silai School uplift rural India, fostering entrepreneurship and self-reliance, transforming villages one stitch at a time
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 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.