Visit to Shoshana Medical Centre, Karamchedu.

Pics from Shoshana Medical Centre at Karamchedu village. Located on the outskirts of the village called Ambedhkar colony.

Started in the year 2011 as a primary health centre. With a regular nurse giving out free medication to the needy people.

On the request of the villagers, Shoshana is providing regular B.P check ups and blood sugar tests. Giving out doctor prescribed Sugar medicine to a limited needy patients .

 The colony is not that big so the nurse could go around the village if anyone has problems coming to the centre for medicine or B.P check up.

This old man had a hip fracture. No proper treatment so he has difficulty in walking. Need a new walker that we could provide from the medical centre.

Visit to Shoshana sewing centre, Rajiv Gandhi nagar, Guntur.

Nirmala & Kamala ( Tailoring & Embroidery instructors) with the new group of women

Nirmala, our sewing instructor, the very first sewing project started by Shoshana in the year 2000. She is working with us from the beginning. She was in a desperate situation when we first met her. Her husband is an alchoholic and left her. She has 3 small children then and  learning stitching with a group. Martha happened to meet her in 1998 and she wanted to help her and other needy women like her for their self help.

Nirmala started working with Shoshana in the year 2000.For the last 15 years she trained more than 150 needy women. She still has more women who are interested to take the class.

  Kamala, the instructor for Painting and Embroidery  is the daughter of Nirmala. She is also a trained nurse. So far she has students who are interested to learn Emb and Painting besides stitching. In future if there is a possibility she wants to work as a nurse in one of our medical centers.

Visit to Shoshana sewing projects, Guntur.

Back to back visits to the projects so had little time to upload the pics from Monday 12/10 but here are the pics from our Sewing project Mutyalareddy nagar, Guntur.

New group of women at Shoshana Sew Project, Mutyalareddy nagar, Guntur

Anjali, previous batch student from this project, heard that Martha is visiting the centre and she came up to see her. She is a housewife and her husband is in a technical work  and she has a boy and a girl. She is very happy to say that she is now having her own shop at home and the free training class gave her an opportunity to be independent.




More pics from the present group of women:

Rajani, the instructor has special training in embroidery, painting and beautician courses. She has the possibility of teaching the women different stuff besides stitching.  Right now she has tailoring batch.

Visit to Shoshana Computer Centre, Guntur.

Pics from our very first computer centre in Guntur, Sponsored by Shoshana-Germany.

Besides our regular work in helping needy  illiterate women in stitching and first aid help in remote areas, we decided to help  needy girls and boys in getting basic as well as as advanced computer courses. For the first time, Shoshana is sponsoring for computer courses along with some software technicians who came forward to offer free classes for the needy.

Chandra, the new instructor for software courses

The teaching faculty are Mr.Chandra and Mr.Prashanth for both software and hardware courses. Offering certificates after finishing their course.  Job oriented courses with which the students will definitely have a chance for their self help.

Visit to Shoshana Medical centre, Kadavakuduru.

Visit pics from Shoshana Medical Centre, Kadavakuduru village.

Special case from the Medical Project.

Mother and Son. He had stroke and paralyzed. Left by his wife and old mother herself is taking care of him for the last few years. He is unable to work and totally depended on his mother since his mental health is also not good.

Visiting the medical project from time to time for special help for their living but we are not very sure how to take their case. Because of the local Government's mistake they are not getting any old age pension or handicapped pension. We discussed with the local people to help them in getting their monthly pension as soon as possible.

Besides that they requested to provide them with  a rickshaw. They could rent it and earn some money.

Few pics from the Medical project

Nurse Mrs.Rajakumari has been working here for more than 10 years. Her daughter Divya is also a trained nurse working in a private hospital. She is also helping her mother with the patients in her off time.

Visit to Shoshana Sewing Centre, Pedanandipadu.

New pics from Shoshana Sewing Project Pedanandipadu.

This sewing project started in the year 2003. First it was started in Appapuram village and later moved to Pedanandipadu which is a bigger village. Mrs. Sivakumari is the instructor from the beginning and so far she had more than 110 students. It is still amazing to know that she has still more needy women who are interested to take the free training class.

 Sivakumari has students not only from Pedanandipadu village but from the neighbouring villages. She has 10 students now but more women are interested to learn from the near by village called Anaparthi so she decided to teach them in her weekends either going to Anaparthi or at Pedanandipadu.

All her women are from agricultural background and most of them are school drop outs. They either get married early or they work in fields along with their parents.

This group of women started their training in Aug-15 and they are very happy to have a free class. They are utilizing their opportunity quite well and I hope they will make best use of the training.

Visit to Shoshana sewing centre, Chilakaluripet.

Visit to our newest sewing project in Chilakaluripet.

Kasu Vengalreddy nagar, about 4kms away from Chilakaluripet.
Sewing project started few months back in the month of Jan-15.

Benny kumari is the instructor and she has been working as a tailor in this area for a long time. She has a small group of women  who are interested to learn stitching.  They are housewives with small kids.  These women are interested to get some training with which they could work from home since it is difficult for them to go out for work with their small kids.

Having heard about the support of Shoshana for needy women,she came forward to help the  women in her area who are interested to learn stitching for their self help.

It is a happy bunch of women. They are very eager to work on their own as a group. They have ideas to make different types of products which they could sell. I hope they will definitely make  the best out of their training.