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USHA Is Reviving And Promoting Jharkhand's Traditional Sports 'Archery'
Team NDTV | Friday December 02, 2022Archery 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.
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.