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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.
With An Expanding Network Of Partners, Usha Silai Programme Goes From Strength To Strength
Usha's commitment to empowering as many women as possible through skill-building initiatives remains unwavering. Their vision has resonated with diverse institutions ranging from Maharaja Ganesh Pal Charitable Trust and Fathima School to Star Cement and Lions Club, though varied, each working for a common cause: to develop an entrepreneurial women force across the country. Take a look.
India's Rural Women Make It To East India Fashion Show, Exhibiting Their Sewing Skills
Kushalta Ke Kadam, an initiative by NDTV and Usha, has entered its eighth season with the aim to empower women from rural India, by fostering them with sewing and stitching skills through Usha Silai School. NDTV-Usha focuses on reaching out to women in villages near border areas and remote regions.
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 Partnering With Government And Private Bodies To Empower India's Rural Women
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 Partnering With Government Bodies To Empower India's Rural Women
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
USHA Is Reviving The Unsung World Of Indian Rural Sports
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.
USHA Is Generating Job Opportunities For Inmates And Disabled People By Imparting Them Vocational Skills
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.
Despite Physical And Mental Challenges, USHA Silai School Women Are Carving A Path For Themselves
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
Besides Sewing Skills, USHA Is Empowering Rural Women And Youth To Learn Traditional Sports
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, Women Entrepreneurs Are Generating Jobs And Providing Livelihoods
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.