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In Haryana, 'Usha Gatka Championship' Is Reviving The Lost Form Of Self-Defence
Team NDTV | Thursday January 11, 2024Stick fighting, or "Gatka," is a combat sport involving two or more participants and wooden sticks called "Soti" that are meant to resemble swords
- Team NDTV | Wednesday January 10, 2024
In Pune's Saswad, women of Usha Silai School organised a yoga camp, promoting not just physical health but also unity and breaking societal barriers
- Team NDTV | Monday January 08, 2024
Usha Silai School in collaboration with SIDBI, is breaking barriers and transcending distances, bringing the promise of empowerment for women to the heart of the challenging terrains of Jammu and Kashmir
- Team NDTV | Friday January 05, 2024
The collaboration between Usha Silai School and Rourkela Steel Plant in establishing the Usha Training-cum-Production Center exemplifies the potential for positive change toward building an inclusive and empowered society
- Team NDTV | Wednesday January 03, 2024
By establishing a comprehensive partnership, NEEPCO and Usha have leveraged their strengths to foster sustainable energy and empower women through skill enhancement and valuable employment prospects
- Team NDTV | Friday December 29, 2023
In her quest to create a lasting social impact, Balamani, Usha Silai School Super Achiever has trained over 340 women, who can potentially employ many other women, establishing a network of artisans.
- Team NDTV | Tuesday December 26, 2023
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
- Team NDTV | Monday December 25, 2023
Here's how a unique collaboration between Star Cement and Usha International is fostering women's empowerment in Assam, turning ordinary individuals into entrepreneurial success stories
- Team NDTV | Friday December 22, 2023
A joint initiative between the Usha Silai School and Fathima School Malja-ul Islam Orphanage is empowering women while also fostering societal growth in Kasaragod, Kerala
- Team NDTV | Thursday December 21, 2023
In Rajasthan's Karauli, the Usha Silai programme, in collaboration with Maharaja Ganesh Pal Charitable Trust, is empowering women artisans. Through skillful craftsmanship and traditional techniques, women like Shobha Jatav are weaving a brighter future, one stitch at a time
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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.