Building Better Futures International
Previously ‘Friends of the Poor in South India’
Previously ‘Friends of the Poor in South India’
We support women and children in rural India through training and education programmes. Tailoring training gives a woman the opportunity to lift herself out of poverty by tripling her wages and securing a reliable income. This in turn enables her to send her children to school and complete secondary level education. We are currently fundraising to build a training and education centre from which the whole community will greatly benefit.
The reality of the Covid-19 crisis in rural areas is worse than is being reported. Our outreach workers are finding that those with no money, who are ill and cannot work are now starving along with their families. The hospital near the villages where we work is asking if we can deliver food parcels to keep these families from starvation. Can you help? £21 will provide a package to feed a family for 40 days.
These after-school education centres in the villages provide the poorest children with the opportunity to get support with their homework and to receive some basic supplies like good quality school bags. This is particularly important for children of illiterate parents as without support with their homework they fall behind at school and become disengaged with their learning.
Each woman we train in tailoring and provide with a sewing machine sees her income lifted three-fold and secures her independent, secure and sustainable work, free from exploitation. This permanently changes the lives and hopes of her and her children. We also organise self-help groups to encourage the women to support each other.
The new centre will bring all the projects together! Programmes at present are crammed into inappropriate, rented buildings. Every day the centre will teem with life, with adult training during the day and children coming in for evening tuition. It will engender a sense of pride for people who have had nothing to boast of all their lives – until now!
Each woman we train in tailoring and provide with a sewing machine sees her income lifted three-fold and secures her independent, secure and sustainable work, free from exploitation. This permanently changes the lives and hopes of her and her children.
