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Women’s Empowerment

Six months of training and a sewing machine of her own.

A hall filled with treadle sewing machines and women working at them
Inside a sewing institute

Purpose

The U.C.M. Grace Sewing Institute trains women and widows for six months. Every graduate gets a sewing machine so she can earn a living.

Who it serves

Who it is for
Women and widows

What the work involves

Widows receive financial help while they train, since most cannot go six months without earning. Every graduate receives a sewing machine. With her own machine, she can work from home and keep what she earns. The ministry also offers Family in Need and Disabled Person giving at $10 a month each.

More about this work

For background on India, see the need in India, with independent sources for every figure.

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Photographs

  • Sewing training institute students assembled at Lingagudem
    Sewing Training Institute students, Lingagudem
  • A hall filled with treadle sewing machines and women working at them
    Inside a sewing institute
  • Women at rows of sewing machines in a training hall
    Sewing class
  • Women standing with newly issued sewing machines
    Machines issued to graduates
  • Graduates kneeling beside their new sewing machines
    Graduates with their machines
  • Graduates holding certificates on a decorated stage
    Graduation
  • Young women holding graduation certificates outdoors
    Certificates awarded
  • A large hall of women seated at sewing machines beneath a Livelihood Project banner
    Livelihood Project
  • Women raising their hands at a livelihood project dedication
    Dedication of a livelihood project
  • Sewing institute graduates holding certificates at Bose Colony
    U.C.M. Grace Sewing Institute, Bose Colony
  • Women holding graduation certificates at Brahmanagudem
    Graduation day, Brahmanagudem
  • Women with certificates outside a training center at Eruwada
    Certificates awarded at Eruwada
  • Women holding certificates at a center in Karnataka
    Karnataka
  • A group of women and girls gathered outdoors
    A women’s gathering
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About the sources

Amounts, names and places on this page come from the ministry’s own published record and photographs. Any outside figures cite their source.

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