Protect girls from violence in school

Ayesha (not her real name) has started to earn a living by selling blouses and other cloths she has produced. 

Ayesha is from a Pardhi tribal community living at the outskirts of Amravati. Pardhis suffer from sever discrimination for ages. Having the reputation of being criminal by birth it's extremely difficult for them to integrate in mainstream society. For Ayesha and her friends it has been a unique experience that the project team invited them into their house. They are normally never invited by non-Pardhi people. 

This has built confidence and a feeling of acceptance in the group of Pardhi women. Especially Ayesha has changed a lot in the one year of participating in the training. Her family income comes from producing alcohol and from begging. More and more Ayesha expressed that she doesn't want to continue with this. She is eager to earn a living which is not humiliating and harming. Being a clever young woman she learnt sewing cloths very quickly. Now Ayesha has started to take orders of sewing which increases her income. She has even initiated to start the same training in her community. She has learnt so swiftly that she can now even pass her knowledge on. With the help of the project she builds herself up as a teacher for other women. Now there is one sewing class in her community location supported by the project.

Ayesha is better educated than most of her community. She has finished 12 years of schooling which is unusual. This helps her to set up a small business on her own and also to teach other women. She is very keen to expand more and more so that her family no longer needs to pursue humiliating ways of income generation. 

She is a role model for other women and encourages them to participate in the course. And of course she is also encouraging education for girls in the community.