Support Women in Rishikesh

Namaste!

Samvedna’s model is drawn on the four pillars of growth; learn, develop, earn, and serve. We believe that women are the crux of society, and we firmly believe that independence and autonomy for women reflect a thriving community that empowers their families and children. Initially, we teach women the necessary skills in our development classes that encompass stitching, dress designing, hand embroidery, and candle making. We introduce them to grooming sessions and personality development classes to prepare them for the process. The development class helps hone the necessary skills to design clothes and candle-making, thus incentivizing them to be independent. We then sell their products and share profits with them.

Arti Saxena From India, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, (Founder of Samvedna Connecting Souls), a Fashion Designer by profession who has been working with village women since 2014, trains women in varied skills such as Stitching, Dress design, Embroidery and many more. Our base headquarters is in Rishikesh Tapovan, but we have multiple centers operating in different villages to ensure accessibility to women hailing from other regions of Rishikesh.

Workshops are conducted in these villages, and local teachers are hired who are provided with syllabus, learning material kits and certificates denoting the end of courses. Arti makes personal inspections to ensure the quality of learning is not compromised and thus ensures course corrections when necessary. After the course completion, these women are provided with the option to work from home and the products that are made are sold through our contacts and profit is shared.

Our vision to run multiple channels across new centers requires initial funding, and we like to request you to support us in our cause humbly. We are thankful to all supporters from the bottom of our hearts for helping us achieve the mission to create an independent and service-oriented society in our vicinity.

When women are involved in economic activities, they not only produce and earn money for their households, but they bring happiness to the house, healthy food, end malnutrition and enhance education levels within the family. Multiple studies have confirmed the same. Therefore for the progress of family, society and country and to end hunger, it is necessary to ensure more women are involved in economic activities, ensuring that they are paid for their work, to ensure that money flows into their hands which would inevitably be funneled for food, health and education expenses.

We at Samvedna have planned to open centers in the maximum rural locations possible to educate & upgrade the skills of the maximum number of women possible.

We currently have three education centers running:

1. Tapovan, Rishikesh

2. Neer village, uphills from Neer waterfall

3. Gehli village, Yamkeshwar

Now, these six villages are awaiting, we open centers there too and start our training classes:

* Kairkhal village, near Neelkanth temple

* Umrain village, Yamkeshwar

* Sant Nirankari Bhawan, Yamkeshwar

* Jwalapur, Haridwar

* Kodiya village, Cheela

* Gankya village, Pauri Garhwal

Our basic training lasts three months, for 20 women or girls.

This training cost us approx. 90000/- INR. (~1100Euro).

We have attached the cost of each Center's operational quarterly expenses that, include Months Certificates, and the breakeven cost given below

So for around 5Euro, you will enable one student to join the class and give her a chance for a better future.

3 Months Certificate cost breakdown is below:

To build a new center, we need every center around 4-5 sewing machines:

After completing the course, these women achieve independence to continue work at their previous work while simultaneously generating additional income for their personal expenses with the sewing machines provided to them. They are also free to explore their options at Samvedna where we provide them with work and reasonable compensation.

In this manner, could you support us?