Gender Equality Pakistan Project #24387

Orphan Girls Empowerment through Vocational Skills

by Advocacy, Research, Training and Services (ARTS) Foundation

Project Report | Mar 29, 2022
I am an earning girl - thank you philanthropists

By Huma Aslam | Project Leader

I am Sumera, an orphan with 5^th class level education living with two brothers and one sister in a slim area of Mirpurkhas. I am second child with 18 years in my family, my brother is 20 years old and is responsible to take care as well as feed us, as first my mother then my father left us some 7 and 5 years ago respectively. My brother is working on daily wage basis in a workshop of cars where they dent and paint the cars. He started working when he was just 15 years only. The earing of my brother is too limited that we four members family always have the issue to have proper food and clothing. Being second child of the family, I was well aware that I should to contribute in my family earning as brother’s earning was not enough to cope with daily expenses but I was unable. Indeed, this was a fortunate day when in the month of November 2021, I heard from a Lady Health Worker (LHW) that ARTS Foundation is providing three months free of cost basic dress making training to orphan and needy girls. Really, I found it a very great news that if I could avail this opportunity then I will be able to contribute to my family through earning as a tailor. I talked to my brother to allow me to visit ARTS Foundation to know further with regard to training. I visited ARTS Vocational Training Center as well as got an admission form to submit after having formal consent from brother. After submission of my admission form, I got a call by the end of November 2021 and the classes formally started on 1^st December 2021 and my training complete on 28^th February 2022.

No doubt, three months dress making training given a purpose to my life. I am a skilled orphan girl and decently earning enough to contribute to my family to live a well life. Adding more about learning process, she says that ‘we have been taught everything, right from sketching, drafting, cutting and stitching even negotiation with the customers.

Indeed, I am very thankful to ARTS Foundation under GlobalGiving which provides a quality learning with sufficient basic materials as needed for the course along pick and drop facility as the orphan girls can’t bear travel and transport expenses. Thank you, the philanthropists for making this whole possible through your generous online funding for the deserving segment of the society.

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Nov 17, 2021
COVID-19 and My online Purchasing

By Huma Aslam | Project Leader

Jun 15, 2021
My Skill became My Family Survival

By Huma Aslam | Project Leader

I am Kiran of 23 years old with three class level education. I have been divorced by the husband after 5 years of marriage as I could not give birth to boy baby as I have given birth to two girl babies. I never thought to face such situation in my life and I was not prepared for such situation, this situation happened when my daughters were only of age 3 years and 15 days. Indeed, sudden divorce brought lot of challenges for me, my babies as well as my poor parents. In order to feed my children, I started working in houses to cook, clean and wash dishes and clothes, against these services I use to get not more than seven thousand per month. This amount was too less to meet my travel expenses from home to these houses as well as feed my children along their needs as kids. But there was no other option and it was good as someone said rightly that ‘something is better than nothing’. I did this for at least 5 years before learning dress making training from ARTS Foundation with the generous support of individual philanthropists under the umbrella of GlobalGiving.

I heard about dress making training by ARTS Foundation through Lady Health Workers who attended a certification ceremony at ARTS Vocational Training Center. So, I decided to get admission as it was free of cost for orphan as well as widow and divorced women. I visited the center and submitted my application, after due diligence, I have been informed to joined 6 months evening class at ARTS Vocational Training Center.

The dress making course was included about knowledge sharing with regard to color combinations, fashion designs, marketing and dealing with customers. The course has focus on building confidence among girls and women to augment their interpersonal and negotiation skills to deal with customers smoothly to attract them to get more business.

ARTS Vocational Training Center is providing whole set of basic materials as needed to trainees for the course, like fabric, threads, buttons etc as well as pick and drop facility because the orphan girls can’t bear travel and transport expenses.

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