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It is not just one more vocational training center. The voccational
training center ( S V V K) has till date trained 320
women in to trained hands in handicrafts, detergent making,
pickle making, Fabric designing and some very basic principles
of Thrift, Financial management and marketing. Now more
than 70 women are just happy lots with their families out
of troubles Thanks to the training they recieved at SVVK.
A 70 ands odd group of women have come
together in the name of thrift and they have created a thrift
society that has brought confidence in them. These small amounts
of their savings from their meagre earnings have many a time
saved from emergencies. Then there is one more channel of
support thanks to sevabharathi volunteers who have motivated
one trust TGT ( TRUST GOVINDA TRUST) to provide micro credit
to women. They have now set up Telephone booths, small businesses
like vegetable vending, pushing carts for ironing of clothes
and the iron box and so on, the success stories from the micro
crtedit include, cloth business small time ofcourse, small
repair shops, electrician works, Sewing machines, carpentary
machines etc.
The trainees get loan from an NGO Trust Govinda
Trust towards microcredit for starting their own small ventures.
The microcredit activity is co-ordinate by Sevabharati volunteers
who select the needy beneficiaries. The 90 and odd
people who received the loan have repaid it, the most striking
feature indeed.
A future expansion awaits. Buying more
machines and a repair of the building is on cards. Sevabharati
plans to reach more needy through the activity.
Let us strengthen
the feeble hands that strive to work.
Women Welfare Centers: These
centers are called Matrumandalis and will bring together women
in the name of Bhajans, spiritual get togethers, training
sessions in sewing, handicrafts, health education, painting,
music and financial management etc. The program also serves
as a forum for the development of women in urban as well as
rural places. All together Seva Bharathi is running 22 such
centers in various places.
Thrift Program: There
are 4 self-help groups with savings of Rs.14 lakhs each in
4 villages. Timely assistance to the needy within the village
is part of self-help motivational effort. This program is
Co-ordinated among the backward sections of the society. It
provides an oppurtunity to get to understand among themselves
so that the village stands as one.
Vocational Training: The
Organisation, to help the needy stand self-reliant has started
Vocational Education centers for the women in pickle making,
toys, Stitching and handicrafts; the present batch has 42
students. Till date 320 students passed out from 6 vocational
training centres and atleast half of them are earning their
livelihood on the vocational education.
Micro Credit: Sevabharathi
also provides micro credit to the desreving and enterprenuering
poor. The financial support is provided by TRUST GOVINDA TRUST
(TGT) run by a retired ILO officer. Seva Bharathi selects
the beneficiaries after careful verification by its volunteers
and TGT provides the financial aid for the beneficiaries along
with the required counseling. Till date 47 beneficiaries have
benefited from the Scheme and Successfully repaid the amount
except for 4 of them. Till date there have been tailoring,
vegetable vendors, telephone booths,
URBAN COUNSELLING CENTERS :
The organisation runs counselling centers taht are a source
of rebuilding confidence for the Addicts, the families in
crisis etc, in 4 urban areas with slum population. Warangal,
Nizamabad, Hyderabad. These ceneters provide a helping hand
to the needy in emergency medical aid, providing blood donation
and such other need based activities.
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