From the Wheat Field to the Medical Field
Kandhal’s journey is a remarkable story of resilience, faith, and hope. After completing her 12th-grade education, she joined our tailoring training program in Madhya Pradesh.
Lalita’s Journey: From Struggle to Strength
Recently, Lalita suddenly found herself as the sole provider for her family when a heavy tire fell on her husband breaking his right leg. This injury ended to his job as a laborer in Bombay. To make ends meet, she started working as a daily wage laborer, struggling to feed her children and take care of her injured husband. Life became incredibly difficult, and she bore the burden alone.
Sewing Machines Available for All!
Tailoring schools have been one of our most effective ways of helping young women escape the cycle of poverty. Find out how we are making our schools even better!
The Destitute Find New Life
We are rehabilitating the economic condition of suffering women by organizing training in tailoring and alternate career opportunities. We have five tailoring schools and a hundred and ten students enrolled in the program.
Helping Rural Women Shine
Women were disproportionately affected by unemployment and poverty during the Covid-19 pandemic. They are often forced to rely on men for everything because they lack a source of income.
Training a Skill for a Lifetime
One of the core objectives of our tailoring schools in the villages is teaching skills that our students can use for a lifetime to earn an income for themselves, their families, and even their community.
Teach a Trade, Restore Hope
The State where we work is one of the poorest states in India, it is also home to more than 241 million people, making it the highest populated state in India. The majority of the people depend on agriculture and migrant farm work, which is often unreliable and leaves many families without jobs for months at a time.
Hope, Employment, and Dignity for Women
Over the last year, 120 women graduated from our tailoring schools with life transforming skills that will enable them to provide for their families, start businesses, and lead lives of respect and dignity within their communities. With every school we start, doors are opened and hope is brought to a marginalized people.
The Blessings of COVID
Some of you probably saw this heading and immediately thought, “The blessings of COVID? How could COVID ever possibly be a blessing?” Habakkuk 1:5 (that unpronounceable and often skipped over …
Coming Soon: Elephant Project has New Sites
The Elephant Project has been in the works for about two years now. If you have had the chance to attend one of our India Discovery Fairs, you have probably …