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Kushalta Ke Kadam is an initiative by NDTV and USHA, it is a unique effort to tell inspiring stories of thousands of women who came into the UIL Silai School Programme, which would create entrepreneurs out of them, and change the course of their destiny.
Usha Silai School is a community based initiative with the aim of empowering village women to become entrepreneurs and teach sewing in their respective communities. More than one percent from the sale of every Usha Sewing Machine is invested into this programme, thereby enabling all Usha customers to share their love with rural women. More than 10,000 women are being trained every day as pert of this programme. Know More
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.
Written by Somya Srivastava , Edited by Sonia Bhaskar | Tuesday June 12, 2018brought Nithari, Uttar Pradesh, into the headlines and presented the world with one of the most convoluted and inhuman stories of violence and murder ever
Written by Somya Srivastava , Edited by Gopi Karelia | Friday June 08, 2018With agriculture being one of the primary sources of livelihood in West Bengal, here's how USHA Silai School created an alternative employment in the state
Written by Somya Srivastava , Edited by Sonia Bhaskar | Monday May 28, 2018USHA Silai Sschool is helping women in Nagaland carve out their own destinies through stitching and sewing
Written by Somya Srivastava , Edited by Sonia Bhaskar | Wednesday May 09, 2018Men from rural parts of Tamil Nadu have enrolled themselves for the USHA Silai School programme and are now earning a stable income meet their household expenses
Written by Somya Srivastava , Edited by Sonia Bhaskar | Friday April 27, 2018Women from four different zones collaborated with prestigious fashion designers and launched their own clothing line Silai that was displayed at the Lakme Fashion Week 2018. Here's their rags to riches story
Written by Somya Srivastava , Edited by Sonia Bhaskar | Saturday April 21, 2018The migration rate in some of the villages of Andhra Pradesh have seen a dip after the state partnered with USHA Silai school to set up training centres that not only improve the skills of rural women and men but also enable them to become financially independent
