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.

Inuguration of Shoshana Computer centre, Guntur.

Hai,

Inuguration of  Shoshana Computer centre, Guntur.

 Very happy to share that Shoshana started its very first computer centre in Guntur.

So far we have Medical and Sewing projects. These projects are mainly for supporting the very poor community.  Especially for women those who are illiterate daily workers, agricultural coolies , domestic helpers etc for their self help and for their better living.

For the first time we started computer training for needy boys and girls belonging to lower middle class community especially those who have basic education .  Introducing job oriented courses  and other advanced courses like Graphic designing etc. Both software and hardware courses.

Shoshana provided the basic start up for the project and it is maintained by like minded volunteers who are computer technicians. Besides their regular jobs as computer training instructors in colleges they took time in training needy boys and girls in job oriented courses.

Selected few needy boys and girls for the first batch.  On last friday we had the opening of the centre with an introduction class.  Mr. Chandra is the instructor for multi media and graphic designing courses.

Pics from Vengal reddy nagar, Chilakaluripet

Pics of the women at Vengal reddy nagar, Chilakaluripet.


This is the very first group of women at this sewing centre which is recently started.

The instructor Mrs.Benny kumari has 8 students right now and in them half of the women are chilli pickers.  These girls are single, drop outs. They  are working  in the near by chilli fields to support their parents.

Chilli harvest season is going on so they are finding time to attend the free sewing classes as well as working.


Rest of the women  are mostly housewives coming from agricultural backgrounds. Husbands are mainly farmers. Having small children at home, they have not much time to go to fields. They want to utilize the free sewing classes.They are still  in the beginning stage but i heard from the instructor that they are quite fast in making samples.

The sewing centre is right now running at the instructor's house but very soon is going to shift to the community hall in this  area which is a multi purpose building which is mainly used for the community service oriented programmes.

Shoshana sewing project, Rajiv Gandhi Nagar, Guntur.

Pics of new group of women . Running 16th group . So far 140 students finished their training program. Recent group started their training in December-14.

Centre has two instructors for tailoring and embroidery. Nirmala the sewing instructor working for the last 14 years and Kamala her daughter who is taking care of the embroidery group.

Kamala(Embroidery instructor) is also a trained nurse. Her present training session is going to finish end of May-15.

Next she wants to give medical services to the needy people. 

Hai,


Want to share a few pics from our recently started Medical project at Burlavaripalem village.

Agricultural village. The Medical centre is open all the time since the nurse Mrs.Mariamma is staying in the same house. Came to know from her that she has more patients in the morning and in the evening.

Mean time she is making house visits if there is a need to attend bed ridden patients.

Majority of the people are agricultural labourers. Most complaints are for body pains, Gastric problems because of their irregular eating habits and weakness.

Slowly started interacting with the village people to find out their problems and to give them general health tips besides medication.

Inuguration of new Sewing Project at Chilakaluripet

Inuguration of new Sewing Centre at Chilakaluripet.


Hai Friends,


Glad to inform that we had the opportunity to open one more project in this month. This time it is a Sewing project in Chilakaluripet town.

 We already have one sewing and embroidery project at Sugali colony, Chilakaluripet. This one is the second project which is at Kasu Vengal reddy Nagar, Chilakaluripet.

The request for the project in this area came to us through one of our sewing projects in Guntur. We did the survey to find the possibility of starting this training for women for their self help.

Benny Kumari ( Tailoring instructor)

The instructor Mrs.Benny kumari has been working as a tailor in this area for many years and she has enough experience in teaching some women.

The instructor Mrs.Benny kumari took time in selecting the needy women who are interested and formed a group of 10 women for this batch of training class.

Women are mostly in age group of 16 - 30 yrs of age. Housewives and seasonal workers.
Had an interaction with them to find out their family background details, their interests and their plans in future. For me all seem to be happy and interested in getting an opportunity to have a free class.

Inuguration of New Medical Centre, Burlavaripalem village.

Hai,


Very happy to inform that yesterday i.e 2/1/15 we had the inuguration of our new Medical Project at Burlavaripalem Village. It comes under Prakasam District.

Our first new project for this year. We had the gathering in the evening time with the local pastor and the village elders belonging to the Harijan waada where we opened the Medical Centre.

Mrs.Dr.P.Radha Rani inugurated the Medical Centre. She is a General Physician working in U.K. She is very much interested to work in rural slums when ever she visits India. She is very happy with the services Shoshana has been giving in rural slums where there is no possibility for any medical help. She promised that she would give her support in helping the needy people in rural areas .

The villager elders chose Mrs.Mariyamma as the nurse for the medical centre. She is from the same village so is familiar with all the people. Village elders thought she would take good care of the people.