Shanti Sahyog
Skill Development with an eye on employment is the need of the hour and Shanti Sahyog is a widely known NGO working for Skill Development in Delhi/NCR since 2004. There is a growing realization that having an educational degree, does not always help in getting a job commensurate with one’s qualification. However, a minimum qualification of Class X combined with some vocational skill leads to employment opportunities.

CUTTING & TAILORING
Funded by the Delhi Government, this vocational training was started in 2010 in our Gender Resource Center (GRC) in DDA Flats Kalkaji. For 7 years, every six months, 50 women, drawn from the 16 slums near our Center, were trained, examined and awarded Certificates. After the closure of the GRC in 2016, our Kalkaji Center is currently run in collaboration with SINGER & Rotary Club of Delhi Cama Place. The trainees follow the syllabus approved by SINGER, designed to create employment opportunities for them. Besides the prescribed syllabus, the women are also taught to make wall hangings, fancy bags, purses, files & folders which are sold at Diwali Melas and other forums.

The aim is to provide Cutting & Tailoring Skills to underprivileged girls /women with a view to help them earn a living by stitching clothes from their homes (self-employment) or get a job at a boutique / export house and supplement the family income, to improve their quality of life. Top 5 students are given sewing machines on completing the
course. After the training, Shanti Sahyog provides hand holding support to help the beneficiaries open their own tailoring shop individually or as a collective. Trainees are also taken for exposure visits and counseled on the marketing aspects of a tailoring unit; sampling and quality control; Self Help Groups (SHG) as Tailoring Unit Co-operatives and management of SHGs. They are also encouraged to setting up shop, with an interest free loan from the Government or Self Help Group.

Shanti Sahyog