Pics from Shoshana Sewing centre, Giripuram, Vijayawada.

Pics from Shoshana sewing centre, Vijayawada City.


Sewing centre, located at Giripuram area, one of the slums in Vijayawada. Hemima the instructor has been giving her support for the past 10 yrs in different areas of Vijayawada for the self help of the women.

Hemima not only being a teacher for the sewing students but also taking  over all care for each woman.  This area is full of daily workers like construction workers, rod bending workers, domestic helpers etc. Most men are alcoholics and HIV patients. There is lot of domestic violence in this area.

So training in sewing and embroidery is providing an income for majority of the women  like women who are  victims of domestic violence, left by their husbands or who are taking care of their sick husbands etc.

Instructor Hemima is also taking care of their medical needs and providing them with basic medicines who are in need of help.

One such case:
Name of the student:  Lakshmi
One of the students from tailoring batch. 32 years of age, married. She has two small children.( 4yrs and 2yrs).

Left by her husband. Lakshmi is staying at her parents' house. Lost her father when she was young. Mother is old and sick. Lakshmi is working as a servant maid to take care of her family.

Presently she has Hernia problem and she needs surgery to get rid of the problem. She is very poor and she can't afford to pay for the surgery. Being the only working one in the family she has to work for the living in spite being in pain. She is asking her friends and relatives for help for the surgery. The local society came forward to help her to some extent but she needs more money. She is requesting Shoshana to please consider her case and help her to come out of the problem.

Have been to different medical projects in and around Chirala town and few pics from Shoshana Medical project, Swarna village.

The Nurse Mr. Raju has been taking care of two medical projects , one in Chirala and in Swarna. Depending on the need he is keeping himself available at both the projects.

Observed that  most of the people coming to the medical projects have acidity and Indigestion problems. People coming here are mostly agricultural coolies and daily workers. Usually they are having irregular eating habits. I think they need awareness camp regarding diet besides medication.

New pics from Shoshana sewing centre, Pedanandipadu village.

The instructor Mrs. Sivakumari has new group of women. Women not only from Pedanandipadu village also few students from near by villages coming either with an auto or bus.

Sivakumari has been working in this area for a long time so she is familiar as a tailor as well as teacher so many women are interested to join the course and she even has requests from other villages to start a centre in their area so they too will have an opportunity to get a free class.

The two girls in the above pics finished their schooling. Parents are illiterates and daily workers in agricultural fields. These girls sometimes helping their parents in fields or looking after the household work.

The woman in the middle is a school drop out and housewife, husband is a daily worker in oil mill.
All of them has no other better option to earn their living except working in fields. They are very much interested to utilize this free sewing class to support their families.

Pics from Sewing projects, Guntur.

Want to share a few pics from two of our sewing projects in Guntur.

New group of women in both the projects.

Anitha, the insturctor in this project is teaching both sewing and embroidery.

Most of the women are married and come from families of tobacco workers, construction coolies etcLast batch of women who finished their course started working and they requested for new machines.

New batch at Shoshana sewing centre, Nagaralu.

 Women started their course recently and for this batch many women are interested to join the course so because of the need the instructor Mrs. Vasanth took 14 women as a group and she took out extra time for all of them.

 Few pics from Shoshana Computer Centre, Guntur.

Our very first computer centre sponsored by Shoshana, Germany and run by local computer technicians with the main aim of helping needy boys and girls in getting computer education in Photo shop, Animation, web designing, Graphic designing etc

So far we have sewing centres mainly for needy women for their self help and health centres for all needy people in rural areas. First time Shoshana is sponsoring computer centre in Guntur for boys and girls coming from  financially weak background who has basic education but who can't afford to go for some advanced software courses.

The students will have an opportunity to work in Photo,  animation studio or Graphic studios.

Pics from Shoshana Sewing Centre, Vengal reddy nagar,Chilakaluripet.



Few pics from our recently started sewing project.
We have problems in finding a place for the centre. The local people agreed to allot the community hall for the project but since it is a multi purpose centre, it was difficult to run the centre there.


For the time being the centre is running at the instructor's house.

This group of women are housewives. Mostly school dropouts. All of them have small kids at home. For them it is difficult to go as agricultural workers. This training would be an opportunity for them to work from home.

Shoshana sewing centre, Pandaripuram, Chilakaluripet.

New group of women at Shoshana sewing centre, Chilakaluripet.

Sewing centre working at Pandaripuram, Chilakaluripet town specially started for the tribal women. This area has tribal colonies , people migrated from different parts of the state in search of work. This area has a tobacco company where most of the tribal men work as daily workers.

Some of the women also work as daily workers in the tobacco company, domestic helpers agricultural workers etc.

Sewing centre started in this area in 2006 with the main aim of helping these women in their self help. This training program if used properly is a constant income source for them. So far 117 needy women got training in tailoring and embroidery from this sewing project.

New group of women are ready for the next training classes starting from 1/7/15.








Few pics from the project.

Sumathi and Swetha(instructors) giving out the introduction class  to the women in both tailoring and embroidery.