Name of the project: EMPOWERMENT OF IMPOVERISHED TEEN-AGE GIRLS

Donor Agency:

Peace Child International, BTC! Programme

The White House – 46 High Street

Buntingford, Herts.

United Kingdom, SG9 9AH

Duration: From 20-07-2009 to 19-07-2010 (1 year)

Main Aim of the project:

To alleviate the Poverty among the target group teen-age girls and their widowed mothers and thus we should contribute to Millennium Development Goal # 1.

Brief project description:

Our organisation is arranged a training programme in hand embroidery programme for 20 impoverished teen-age girls. It is Indian beautiful traditional artistic hand work practiced by teen-age girls.  This artistic hand embroidery is being applies to decorate on the sarees, dress materials and other fabrics wears.  Miss.Fakrunnisa, one of the member in our organisation giving training to the 20 target group teen-age girls in the hand embroidery skill for a period of 3 months. After training period we  distributed the Seed Capital investment amount for 20 girls to purchase the raw materials, tools and equipments. Then they have started their own production units and will earn sufficient income and live a sustainable life and thus relieve from the poverty. 

This programme is now going on.