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As part of Livelihoods Program, we have established a Vocation Training Center (VTC) at Kothaguda, Hyderabad with funding from Flagstone Reinsurance Limited.
Aim of the project - Women Empowerment:
We planned to choose the vocations with a clear focus on women empowerment. Of the 1.3 billion people who live in absolute poverty around the globe, 70 percent are women. For these women, poverty doesn’t just mean scarcity and want. It means rights denied, opportunities curtailed and voices silenced.
Empowerment is the one of the key factors in determining the success of Read more...
Women are often neglected when it comes to village affairs. However, there are several villages in India where women are now undergoing empowerment programmes to enable them to contribute towards the community.
One such shining example is a small village near Pilani, Khedla. For years, the women of the village have lived in ignorance of the social and economic nuances of their day-to-day living. They have depended on the males of the family to handle all these matters, while they concentrated on the household activities.
However, all this changed approximately 5 years ago, Read more...
Renaissance 2k11, a social conference was held in BITS-Pilani by NIRMAAN in association with Renaissance -India. It’s a platform to connect like-minded individuals and organizations, avoid repetitive efforts through shared learning, promote collaborations and focus the student force to strengthen the existing efforts in social space.
The 3 day panorama saw speakers like Anshu Gupta from GOONJ, Swapnil of Tata JagritiYatra and many more. There were case studies for the students to discuss, start-up presentations, field trips and panel discussions on social issues.
It gave us an opportunity to collaborate with various social bodies in other colleges, organizations like Touching Lives, SOIL that can help us in implementing our projects more effectively in future
As a part of Joy of Giving Week 2011, 21 we Nirmaanites and students of BITS – Pilani Goa campus visited an old age home “Our Home” at Bogmalo. Located next to the scenic beach, the home has 55 inmates including a few mentally ill patients. Initially, most of them found some sense of relief by speaking out their stories. We started asking about their health and well being after getting acquainted. While many of them were happy to have the strange visitors coming forward to spend time with them, some were mentally ill to accept us. It was inspiring to see a paralyzed aged women making handicrafts. While managing the daily chores is itself a difficult task at such an age, the inmates showed keen interest on improving their artistic talents. Joseph gets all the medicine needed for his fellow patients himself from faraway places. Mona spends most of her time with her Bible and novels. While Maria gazes at the pleasant Bogmalo, you hear some soothing music from the stereo system. Fatima, another old woman in the home hardly sounded aged as she made us all laugh with her talks. In spite of their age and physical condition the people put in all possible efforts to stay lively and happy. Some of the old clothes collected during the Joy of Giving Week were also donated to the home. The residents were very happy about the visit and asked us to visit again
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