USHA Silai School

USHA Silai Schools are community based initiatives with the aim of empowering village women to become entrepreneurs through sewing and setting up sewing schools. Gramin Vikas sansthan, in direct partnership with SIDBI and USHA sets up Silai Schools in Ghazipur, Gorakhpur, mau, Varanasi and Azamgarh , Jaunpur most remote and rural corners. The GVS facilitate and support USHA to identify, set up and motivate village women to join these schools where they are trained in sewing and Embroidery (and given a free sewing machine and Course Kit) after which they in turn teach and train other women forming a network of self-reliant and enterprising women.

Now Mamta is Well Equipped and Encouraged

Mamta was a resident of mahaveer chhpraa village in Gorakhpur district. An ambitious lady who was always eager to learn more and more about sewing and stitching but lack of opportunity ,she was hopeless. The poor condition of her family encouraged her to adopt the sewing as a career. She was looking for the new technologies and technique of the sewing to earn enough. Her husband was unemployed and the family was hand to mouth. During the counseling visits by GVS in the Gorakhpur intervention area Mamta came to know about the training opportunity to be provided by USHA in shape of a residential training. At the moment the family members were not ready to allow her for residential training but she finally decided to complete the advance residential training of tailoring. She participated actively in the 9 days residential training and successfully completed.After completion of the training,she was very happy , positive and hopeful for her tailoring career. Her family members are also encouraged and she has a responsibility of feeding to her husband and two girl child. Keeping in mind she started her career with full of enthusiasm.

Manju Gupta is Now can repair the sewing Machine

Manju Gupta is from Ahirauli village of Varanasi district has completed her intermediate education when she got married. Her husband is a street vendor and used to sell the fast food moving around in the areas . This is the only source of income of her family to mitigate the needs of livelihood . Their houses is also damaged and they have no another source of income . Manju has two children and she is currently now just 25.Manju had learnt some basic skill of tailoring when she was at her parents home and unmarried. she was usually doing some basic tailoring work but that was not enough and sufficient to earn money. however she was also teaching the tailoring skills to other girls in her parents home but she was never gone through any formal and systematic training of tailoring and sewing . During the training organised by USHA. she learnt alot of about the tailoring techniques ,new designs as well as a skill of sewing machine repairing ,which was fully unknown for her before joining the training. 9 days residential training impacted well in her skill and now she is fully equipped with different ways and types of tailoring as well as major and minor fault repairing of any sewing machine. she is now very happy and positive also.she has a dream to continue the sewing career in her in laws home and she also want to teach and make capable to other girls in her in-laws.

Total Coverage

Sr No	District	Block	Total Women Trained	Total Sewing school opened	Total Learners/Candidate Trained and got certificate from USHA
	Ghazipur	Sadar , Zamania , Kasimabad	130	130	2600
	Mau	Sadar, Gohna mohamdabad	60	60	1200
	Azamgarh	Phoolpur	10	10	200
	Varanasi	Chiraigaon, Cholapur	50	50	1000
	Gorakhpur	Bansgaon, Piprauli	50	50	1000
	Jaunpur	Dobhi	10	10	100
	Total-		310	310	6100

Our Girls Our Pride has achieved the several remarkable milestones on the way of Adolescent Empowerment. Girls Fellows are working as a local squad of transforming the lives of the other girls through mobilizing them. The conceptualization of the Girls fellows is one of them. During the Intervention it was analyzed that Some of the leaders are vibrant and need a further encouragement to lead their initiative and be a role model for the community girls. The Project brainstormed and took decision that there is a emerging need to involve them in community mobilization and adolescent empowerment practices and a fellowship intervention can minimize the vulnerability factors in the area and coverage of local leaders through fellowship grant will ensure new champion from the community and they would be a source of motivation for other girls. Total 25 Fellows are working in 75 Gram panchayat of Mau district These fellows are from the 25 Different clusters. These fellows have achieved the certain milestone and have taken the innovative initiatives. They are playing the active role in the community through providing the correct information on age at marriage,Education,Girls related health issues, Girls mobility, Gender, nutrition and other girls related issues.

USHA Silai Schools are community based initiatives with the aim of empowering village women to become entrepreneurs through sewing and setting up sewing schools at their own villages . Gramin Vikas sansthan has partnered with USHA and sets up Silai Schools in the Districts of Ghazipur, Gorakhpur, Mau, Varanasi and Jaunpur in the most remote and rural corners. GVS facilitate and support USHA to identify, set up and motivate village women to join these schools where they are trained in sewing and given a free sewing machine. Its aimed that they in turn teach and train other women forming a network of self-reliant and enterprising women. And that’s not all. Every time someone buys an USHA sewing machine, more than 1% of that sale amount is used to enhance and further develop the Silai School Program.
Everyday USHA Silai Schools are helping hundreds of women in sewing and entrepreneurial skills and thereby changing their lives.

Organization has covered more than 4500 families through ration and other support during the Covid-19 Pandemic.

• Total 340 Girls during the Program has been supported financially to start their career opportunities.

• Organisation has developed more than 2000 Volunteers in Mau Ghazipur and Azamgarh District.

• Total 407 Early Marriage protest have been reported between April 2017 to March 2022.

• Total 5000 Equanis owner families have been covered through the different intervention.

• GVS Has mobilized 28000 Families in Mau ,Ghazipur District through the different development intervention during the last 5 years .

• GVS has trained more than 976 Community Support Groups Leaders in which around 6600 members are directly covered through different intervention.

• Organization has covered more than 120000 Community people through community mobilization events and campaigns.

• Organisation has its implementation among 1200 School teachers in in Mau and ,Ghazipur.

• GVS Has established 5 Smart classes for girls in Azamgarh to ensure the quality of education.

Gramin Vikas Sansthan

A Nonprofit Social development Organization working in India

USHA Silai School