Children's Education Sponsorship
Education is recognized as a key factor in helping children move beyond poverty. It improves a child’s income-earning potential later in life. But the fact remains, poverty itself often prevents children from staying at school.
Working with Creative Handicrafts helps women stabilize the economic situation of their families. This creates a platform for the next generation to move ahead. The women’s children go on to study for longer and at higher levels which enables them to help their families out of the cycle of poverty.
This is the backdrop to Creative Handicrafts' education sponsorship program. It’s an opportunity for you to invest in the next generation, ensuring they have better economic opportunities than their parents.
212 children
sponsored in the past 5 years
Sports day for the sponsored children
Session teaching teens about personal safety
Showing off the Christmas cards they have made
Education Sponsorship Options
20 Euro
monthly
Support the education of 1 child with monthly payments.
US$25 for donors outside Europe
120 Euro
6 monthly
Support the education of 1 child with half-yearly payments.
US$150 for donors outside Europe
240 Euro
yearly
Support the education of 1 child with yearly payments.
US$300 for donors outside Europe
Sign up to sponsor a child's education
Sewing Training Sponsorship
Since its inception, Creative Handicrafts has focused on taking unskilled women into its fold. Initially, women were trained to make soft toys. After moving to the production of more complex garments and accessories in 2001, a high-quality training programme became essential to the success of the Cooperative groups.
Women learn to sew so they can join a Cooperative, which opens the door to a stable income. It also helps set up the next generation for success. The economic stability drastically improves their children's educational prospects.
Around 60 women are trained every year. Creative Handicrafts is constantly looking for opportunities to include more women in training.
300 women
trained to sew in the past 5 years
Training Program Details
- Women from the slum and tribal community approach Creative Handicrafts for work and are trained to stitch. For women to be accepted into the training program, they must be unskilled and from a disadvantaged economic background.
- Women do not have to wait to join the training program, they start at the time they approach Creative Handicrafts.
- Training is provided to the women for free.
- Trainees are given a Rs.1000/month stipend to cover any travel expenses.
- There is no compulsion for women to join a Cooperative at the end of their training, although most do.
- Each training lasts for a maximum of 4 months.
- Classes are in 2 half-day batches; 1 in the morning and 1 in the afternoon.
- Trainees are taught the basics of how to sew garments on electric sewing machines.
- At the end of the training period, trainees are given a practical test to ensure they can competently stitch a garment. Trainees must successfully complete this training to join a Cooperative group.
- At the Cooperative, each new woman is partnered with another woman until she is able to independently handle the production of a garment. She continues her learning, expanding the range of garments she can sew.
- If they are not able to learn sewing skills, they are offered the option of working at Asli Foods.
- Some have gone on to get less skilled jobs in other garment factories. Their exposure to garment manufacturing at Creative Handicrafts opens this door for them.
Offer a woman the chance for a better future by sponsoring her training.
140 Euro
Support 1 woman through her 4-month training program.
Photo and details of the trainee you are supporting will be emailed to you.
Update on trainee's progress will be emailed at the end of the training.
US$170 for donors outside Europe
