By Julia Matthew | Managing Director
Respected Donor!!
A Warm Greeting from El Shaddai Charitable Trust!
We have been receiving your valuable and generous support and we are thankful to you from our hearts. We are glad to bring you updates on our projects and how it is touching the lives of women and girls in empowering them to achieve their full potential. In the previous quarter with your support, almost 30 beneficiaries including women and girls have successfully completed their skill development course in sewing, adult literacy, mehendi and beautician to learn and earn.
Also, we have 25 girls who will be completing their basic computer course successfully for this quarter. This skill development training has given them the confidence to overcome difficulties. These women have been showing a lot of interest to learn as they want to improve their standard of leaving and the economy. Currently, we are planning to begin sewing and embroidery, spoken English, Adult literacy, computer, macramé, mehendi, and beautician training for more than 120 poor women and girls in three villages of Goa, namely Chimbel, Panjim; Motidongor, Margao and Birla, Vasco.
I would like to share the success story of Priti, how the training program has benefitted her, and now how she finds herself economically stable. Priti hails from Karnataka and has migrated to Goa in search of a job with her husband and two children. The husband works as a daily wage labourer, he is an alcoholic and spends most of his earnings on alcohol. She got married at a very young age (under 18) and was struggling financially to provide basic necessities for her children. In September, she enrolled herself in a beautician course offered at our centre in Chimbel and successfully completed it. Now she is working as a beautician at a private Beauty parlour and she is earning a good salary. Confidence is the key to escaping the poverty cycle.
Through vocational training, young women gain independence and influence in the home through an independent income. This project has been established to support and empower girls and women with the skills and confidence to engage in society and it challenges traditional views and stereotypes about gender roles. With your support, many young women like Priti take control of their lives each year.
El Shaddai
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