Inuguration of Medical Project at Raavipadu, Narasaraopet town.

New medical project  at Raavipadu village  . Shoshana is taking care of this project in Narasaraopet town where it has been running sewing centres for needy women.

The present project is mainly to give first aid help for the needy people in this area who are mainly agricultural workers. First aid help is especially important for people in remote areas, where emergency assistance can be some distance and time away.

Main aim of this project is to care for an  injured or sick person prior to treatment by medically trained personnel like minor injuries which  require only first aid intervention, and no further treatment..

The first aider, Ramanjeneyulu.

Second male nurse in our organization. He is working in a private hospital in Narasaraopet town and has ten years experience as a nurse. He is from Raavipadu village and is familiar with the people here.

Interaction with the villagers. There were interested to know about Shoshana and its activities.

Project Pics from Vengal reddy nagar, Chilakaluripet.

The present group of women along with the instructor at Shoshana Sewing Centre, Vengalreddy nagar, Chilakaluripet.

These women started their sewing course in Feb-16  and going to finish their training at the end of the year. Compared to the other projects, the women from this area come from a very needy background. Some of them are coolies in fields and some are domestic helpers.
Their financial situation forced them to drop out from schools and support their families.

They have no regular income  since their work is seasonal. Our aim is to develop self confidence among them and to facilitate skills which would provide them an alternate income source.

This extra income would definitely help them to give their children a better life.

Pics from Shoshana Sewing Centre, Shalem nagar, Narasaraopet.

New group of women started their training from June-16. Coming from neighboring areas of Shalem nagar, heard about the classes from the old students. Few married women,  girls who finished their school  and one or two in college.

Having opportunities for jobs in Government schools, not only the uneducated women who are learning the course for their livelihood besides their work as a coolie, many needy women who have the basic education are also interested to learn the course in order to get placed for Government jobs.

Insturctor, Santhamma with the students

We are providing them the training certificates after completion of their course. There is no mandatory time limit for the training. Ofcourse we have a schedule for 9 months to 1 year for the training but if they need more practice we are providing them more time so that they get perfection to work on their own.

Pics of Shoshana sewing centre, Navodaya nagar, Narasaraopet.

Sushmitha

One of the old students of this Sewing project from the very first batch. Happy to hear that she is running her own shop at home, also she learnt advanced embroidery work, painting, jute bag making etc. She invited to come over to her place to show her products.

Given a chance she would like to train the students of our sew centre with some handicrafts works, embroidery and painting specially bags made out of jute material.


The present group of women started their training from July-2016. Women from agricultural families, autodrivers and other small jobs. They heard about the centre from the old students. The instructor Satyavathi has some health problem so her sister who is also a tailor is taking care of the project of late.

Pics from Shoshana sewing centre, Venkatappaiah colony, Guntur.

Insturctor Anitha with the new group of women.

Most of women especially from this area are daily workers. Chilli pickers either in fields or Chilli markets.   Chilli is a seasonal crop so they run out of work half of the year. They need some alternate work to support their families, More over for women with small kids, it is difficult to work in fields since they have to take the kids to the fields.

Stitching ,  they could work from at home or in a tailor shop, it is convenient for them to manage the household as well as the work.

The present group of women started their sewing training in March-16 and propably they will finish by the end of this year.
Anitha, the instructor is helping them in getting proper training and see that each one who is in need gets a sewing machine and  encouraging the women to use the skill for their self help.

Pics from Shoshana Medical Centre, Swarna.


Most of the medical centres have patients with fevers, headache, vomitings and diarrhea. Since malaria is prevalent in some parts of the state, people have to take care of the precautionary steps. Government is doing awareness programs but this process might take a little while to actually get into the people.

We  have most of our medical centers in remote areas, areas which are not with clean surroundings. Most of the people are falling sick easily.

Beside medication, some of the patients are asking for mosquito nets.

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Pics from Shoshana Sewing projects, Guntur.

 Nirmala and Kamala, Sewing and Embroidery instructors at Shoshana project, Rajiv Gandhi nagar area, Guntur.

 Shoshana started its work in India in the year 2000 with this sewing project.
Nirmala is our  first sewing teacher. Kamala, her daughter joined recently as an Embroidery teacher at the same project. Kamala is also a trained nurse, she could as well give medical support if there is a need.

So far Nirmala has been helping the needy women in this area for the past 16 years and propably this would be the last batch for her in Guntur as she is planning to move to a new place which is near to Guntur.

So far Shoshana  helped more that 150 women there by helping their families from this project for their better living. Not only the free training we see that they get a sewing machine.

 Happy to know this training  made a difference in the lives of many needy women.