Skill development centre in T. Nagar empowers women
The Hindu
Sri Ramakrishna Mission Sarada Vidyalaya Skill Development Centre will start a course in communicative English for women, adding to the three other programmes it already offers
In her 30s, life took a turn for Radha (name changed). It was the pandemic and she lost her husband. The income she managed running a canteen at a school was not steady; and it would not meet the needs of her two children. That is when she got introduced to a beautician course run by Sri Ramakrishna Mission Sarada Vidyalaya Skill Development Centre. Radha today is content working in a neighbourhood beauty parlour where she dabbles in different roles and responsibilities and has a steady income. The Centre is next working to get her a certificate from the Skill Development Council and that will empower her to start her own enterprise.
Two years since this skill development centre was started to mark the 125th anniversary of Ramakrishna Mission, many young women and homemakers have been trained in tailoring, aari work and beautician courses. “We started by conducting a meeting with parents of our schools and had 20 people showing interest in the three-month tailoring programme,” says Rama Kashyap, who is in-charge of the skill development centre.
A majority of the participants are mothers of children studying in the school although it is open to any deserving woman who wants to be financially independent by learning a new skill.
“One of our student’s mother was a skilled tailor and she became the teacher along with another trainer,” says Rama.
The centre got kickstarted thanks to the generosity of the alumni association.
“The first 10 tailoring machines were contributed by the alumni which was a big impetus for the programme to take off,” says Rama. Whenever any new programme begins at the Centre, a message is sent out to the alumni group so that they can support it and also spread the word about it.
Rama says that the skill development centre will be taking up a full scale impact study this year and seek feedback on what course correction needs to be made.
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