Skills Training of 100 Persons with Disabilities

Dear Supporters,

First of all, we thank you for your continued support and cooperation towards our mandate.

Adding on to our training from our past learning, we enhanced our textile design training module by adding more elements to the design process to instill the appropriate technical skills and a creative thought process. For this purpose, we consulted with different textile houses to make our module more robust. Moreover, our trainers attended a month long refresher training to update and enhance their skills.

The training sessions, however, were delayed due to an unfortunate event where our training laptops were stolen. Nevertheless, with the cooperation and encouragement of our supporters, we were able to restart the training at our partner schools in October. We are conducting the 10 week long textile design training, at two of our partner schools for hearing impaired children, in this academic year. More schools will be added in the following semester. We are also proud to have around 80% enrollment for girls with hearing impairment in the training presently.

For select trainees from the previous batch, we facilitated opportunities of internship and further training to polish their skills. This included an internship of 3 trainees with hearing impairment at the fashion brand Koel for block printing, as well as, an advanced training opportunity for 6 trainees with hearing impairment with Kapray for digital design and print. Both opportunities helped the trainees to realise their potential and carve their own path to pursue their dreams.

One of our trainees was also successfully got admission in a renowned art school in Karachi to pursue textile designing. We wish him the best of luck for his future! 

In our way forward, we are planning to introduce training for skills that enhance employability of persons with disabilities. 

Words from our beneficiaries

“The internship at Koel helped us understand what we wanted to do in the future. It was a lot of fun to actually apply we had learned.” – Nabeel, intern at Koel for block printing

“I enjoy learning about textile designing. I am going to work harder to improve my skills.” – Zaineb, candidate in the advanced training opportunity with Kapray