USHA Silai School Women Promote And Revive Rural Traditional Sports Across India

India is home to a wide variety of traditional sports. But over the years we have lost touch with our majestic sporting culture and many sports are even on the verge of dying. To re-familiarise the long-lost sports activities, USHA has stepped up to promote various traditional sports across India with the help of women of Silai Schools.

USHA is building a skilled female workforce by partnering with government bodies. Have a look at how these collaborations are offering a fresh ray of hope to women in remote areas of India

USHA is known for building partnerships between NGOs and corporations and offering a fresh ray of hope to women in remote areas of India. Now, the organisation has partnered with various government bodies to build a skilled female workforce

From old martial art form Kalaripayattu, old gymnastics form Mallakhamba to rural sports of Punjab's Qila Raipur, the USHA Silai school has stepped in to promote the forgotten traditional sports activities among the rural youth.

The USHA training centres impart stitching and sewing training to the inmates of District Jail Dimapur and the rural women of Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan, with an aim to generate employment opportunities for them.

Meet the USHA Silai school heroes who have created a pathway for themselves and uplifted others in learning stitching and sewing skills, despite the physical challenges and social prejudices they have been facing in their lives

While some women are breaking barriers by excelling in traditional forms of martial arts, other women are breaking barriers by fighting social prejudices. Besides teaching sewing and stitching skills in Silai schools, USHA is empowering women and youth to learn and participate in traditonal martial art forms and local sports.

Through USHA Silai schools many women have expanded their small home-based set-ups to improve not just their own prospects but also generate jobs and provide livelihoods for other women. Here's how the Silai Heroes trained by the USHA Silai School Programme are changing their own world, and that of others.

The rural women of Uttar Pradesh, Odisha and West Bengal have undergone stitching and sewing training in USHA Training Centres, and learned new and traditional art forms of stitching garments. Most of these women are now financially independent and are imparting their knowledge to other women in their villages.

USHA Silai school women are reducing waste generated, by upcycling discarded clothes through traditional stitching practices. These are also increasing the quality and value of their products, enhancing their earnings and improving their lives