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Build practical skills through accessible, short-duration training.
Practical, short-duration training designed to help women learn useful skills, create products or services and explore opportunities for employment, small businesses and sustainable livelihoods.
Many women already have traditional skills and abilities, but may not have access to structured training, materials, markets, customers or business guidance.
Our skill and vocational training approach focuses on practical, short-duration learning that can be adapted around existing responsibilities and, wherever appropriate, developed into products, services, employment or small business opportunities.
The focus is not simply on completing a course. It is about helping learners practise a skill, create something useful and understand how that skill can connect with real-world livelihood opportunities.
Training becomes more meaningful when practical skills are connected with confidence, product development, market exposure and opportunities to earn.
Build practical skills through accessible, short-duration training.
Gain hands-on experience by creating products, practising techniques and improving confidence.
Turn learned skills into useful products, services or small production opportunities.
Understand customers, orders, exhibitions, stalls and potential market connections.
Explore pathways towards income, self-reliance, entrepreneurship and livelihood.
A practical cycle connecting skill development with product creation, market exposure and livelihood opportunity.
A range of practical courses covering stitching, handicrafts, food skills, digital learning, beauty, communication and entrepreneurship.
Skill development can be strengthened when learners are supported through the next stages of product development, presentation, pricing, market exposure and customer connections.
Practical training can open pathways towards a variety of handmade, textile, eco-friendly, gift and home-based products.
Cloth bags, shopping bags, tote bags, pouches, makeup pouches, pencil pouches, potli bags, utility bags, aprons, table runners, cushion covers, fabric organisers and reusable kitchen cloths.
Scrap-fabric bags, reusable cloth bags, upcycled fabric products, recycled-paper bookmarks, reusable gift wrapping, eco-friendly return gifts and reusable festive decorations.
Greeting cards, bookmarks, gift hampers, return gifts, festive gift packs, handmade décor, personalised small gifts and handmade stationery.
Homemade cookies, tea-time snacks, namkeen, pickles, chutneys, spice mixes, homemade bakery products and festival food hampers.
Food-related products should be developed and offered subject to applicable food-safety requirements and appropriate registration or licensing.
Training is one part of the journey. With product development, market exposure, orders, mentorship and customer connections, women can explore pathways towards livelihood and entrepreneurship.
Help us create more journeys from education and skills towards opportunity, livelihood and self-reliance.