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Minaben- The Woman Who Embraced Her Struggles And Flourished As An USHA Master Trainer
Team NDTV | Thursday December 08, 2022Ms. Minaben and several other women in the villages will soon be a major driving force behind the USHA Silai Schools of the future. USHA created the Local Resource Person (LRP) model to establish a connection between the NGO partners, the beneficiaries, the Master trainers and the community at large
- Team NDTV | Wednesday December 07, 2022
Over the years, Ms. Bano increased her skill and knowledge by participating in different capacity building programmes such as the Life skill Training programme, Master Trainers training programme and she has now taken on a new role and responsibility of being an LRP - or Local Resource Person
- Team NDTV | Friday December 02, 2022
Archery is an ancient sport of Jharkhand and it was also a means of livelihood for the tribal population.
- Team NDTV | Friday December 02, 2022
A Kalarippayattu event was organised in Kannur city of Kerala with the sponsorship and support of USHA International and the Malabar Social Service Society.
- Team NDTV | Monday November 28, 2022
USHA international supported a two-day Thang-Ta competition. Also known as Huyen Langlon, Thang Ta is an ancient martial art from Manipur
- Written by Team NDTV | Thursday November 24, 2022
Tulsi Shah exemplifies the chain impact of the USHA Silai School Training Program that spreads in the country through the Silai School Women Entrepreneurs
- Written by Team NDTV | Wednesday November 23, 2022
After graduation, when Leda didn't get a government job, she turned to her childhood love for sewing and stitching, especially embroidery
- Team NDTV | Tuesday November 22, 2022
Ms Mary is among the top performers within the USHA Silai School community. Inspired by the transformation, the team says they are motivated to pursue their vision for rural development by establishing at least one such school in every village across India..
- Tuesday November 15, 2022
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
- Tuesday November 15, 2022
Gram Utthan NGO and USHA have helped change rural women's life in the state. The process of making women proficient in the traditional Chandua art started with 20 women and now has grown to 150 women
- Tuesday November 15, 2022
At these Training cum Production Centres (TCPC), the women not only learn how to stitch and service sewing machines, they are also taught Chikankari - intricate work involving 36 types of stitching on textile.
- Written by Team NDTV | Tuesday November 15, 2022
Ms Shimray joined USHA Silai School and learned aspects of drafting and designing bags.
- Written by Team NDTV | Monday November 07, 2022
For more than a decade, USHA has worked at empowering women from rural India by encouraging them to become financially independent
- Written by Team NDTV | Monday November 07, 2022
Sujani was born out of necessity, when patches of old clothes, like saris and dhotis were stitched together to make swaddling clothes for newborn babies
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Kushalta Ke Kadam, an initiative undertaken in collaboration by NDTV and USHA, aims at empowering women from rural India and encourages to become financially independent. It motivates them to become entrepreneurs by taking up sewing and training others in their respective communities.
Since 2011, Usha Silai Campaign has trained more than 8 lakh women from rural areas, with over 26,878 Silai schools, spanning over 15,689 villages across India.
Kushalta Ke Kadam in Season 6 has returned with new goals, vision, and many new success stories. The new season will witness the establishment of the new partnerships with government, corporate and institutions.It celebrates the omen who sustained during the pandemic when the world economy was collapsing, when people were losing their jobs.
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.