Activities-The Sankalp

Activities

Garments Training Center

The NGO has established three centers where women are being taught stitching, sewing and knitting. These centers are located in the remote villages of Shekupur, Sarguja and Ranchi. It is a six month training course, FREE OF COST. Each center runs four shifts a day comprising of 25 women in each shift. The aim is to empower rural women with technical training so that they can stand on their own feet and support their families. It is planned to provide them with raw materials so that they can produce as per orders obtained from local school, government bodies and commercial houses or shops. The NGO will strive to promote and develop good entrepreneurs and leaders. The NGO will initially provide financial and other assistance and will also help to procure orders from clients.

Non-formal Education

The NGO is running informal education centre in Delhi providing on-the-spot education to street children. Books, slates, chalk and the blackboard are carried in a bag by the teacher who gathers children working near crowded bus-stops, markets and street crossings. The class may be held in the shade of a tree in a park or a quite spot along a street or besides the wall of a house. Since the children need to work to make a living, education is given at their convenience, at a time which suites them. The children are also made aware about health and hygiene. Medical treatment, if needed, is provided. Children who show interest are helped to get admission in schools where scholarships may be arranged for them.

Nutrition and Food-Processing Program

This program is conducted with the help of Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, New Delhi. It’s a short term program of 10 days. Students are taught to preserve and enhance essential nutritional ingredients present in the food. They are also taught to make and market Tomato sauce, jams, jelly and seasonal pickles using modern production and preserving methods. Papad, bari and other snacks besides pickles, chips and spices may also be produced and sold by women’s cooperatives. We are exploring avenues through Government schemes for conducting training in other income-generating activities like bee-keeping, handicrafts, poultry, manure-making, seed preservation, silk weaving etc.

Carpet-weaving Training Center

In line with its policy of developing and imparting skills which help rural women folk to improve quality of their lives, the NGO has set up carpet-weaving facility with two looms at present. The idea is to promote technologies which are easy to access, use and maintain in rural areas. The NGO helps women entrepreneurs to set up their own units and market their products.

Computer Training Centre

The NGO has established a vocational computer Training centre at shekhupur for poor and deprived students. The computer education is provided FREE OF COST. The course makes students computer literate and imparts thorough knowledge in MS OFFICE and WINDOWS 95. The course also includes personality development classes. The faculty is carefully selected after rigorous tests comprising both written and oral examination. The NGO is setting up a new branch with 15 computers in Azamgarh, U.P.

Health

The NGO has contacted doctors in various branches of medicines for creating awareness amongst women on how to keep their families healthy and disease-free. The services of NSS volunteers from local schools and colleges was sought to educate women on health, hygiene and the need to keep the environment clean. Highly qualified doctors volunteer to work and NGO provides free medicines. Food and clothing is being provided to senior citizens and poor families.