By Christina Peter | Project Leader
Dear Friends,
Thank you for your donations of USD 5575, which are helping young girls from poor and marginalized backgrounds get trained in diversified skills. AWARD Pakistan has initiated several income generation courses (make-up art, industrial stitching, mobile repair for girls, and computer basics), which have been started in its resource center in Faisalabad. AWARD has also initiated a course for young women to get trained in bike riding, as this initiative is a step towards independence . So far, 350 girls have been trained through the center and have entered the earning circle.
Four batches of women and girls have successfully completed these courses and are now in the process of establishing their own businesses or getting a job through skill. Also , AWARD has been running skill programs in the areas where it is working. Recently , 250 girls received certificates after completing their courses in the 10 rural areas of Punjab and Sindh. The year AWARD has set up a land mark by training such big number.
As more and more girls are getting enrolled in our courses, AWARD needs an extension in its building as it needs to build a training hall (for a capacity of 40 people) to train marginalized, school dropouts, and unskilled girls of Faisalabad in new trades.AWARD requires another USD 18,000 for this urgent need. The training hall will be constructed with the following: 1) Adult Literacy; 2) Financial Literacy; 3) Digital Freelancing 4) Jam making, Pickle Making, chicken farming 5) Educational seminars (Environment, Mother and Child Health, COVID-19 Precautions, Importance of ID Card) 6) Traffic Rules 7) Communication skills 8) Life Skills; 9) Marketing and Digital Marketing Skills 10) Income-generation courses for girls and women 11) Cookies and biscuit making 12) Commercial Cooking; 13) Toffee Making; and many more courses for the girls to sustain their livelihoods and support their families.
We would like to request that the GlobalGiving community support us in its completion to achieve our target of supporting 400 poor women and girls every year.
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