Women Empowerment
To begin with, the Foundation has helped empower a small group of 50 women from Siwan district, by teaching them how to stitch on Juki machines. They were trained to be able to stitch school uniforms professionally for Delhi Public Schools (DPS) at Patna, Pune, Coimbatore, Ludhiana, and Gaya. Now vertically integrated with Saraf Enterprises (a business enterprise which provides uniforms to DPS), this group has grown to over a 100 women who stitch over 80,000 uniforms per year professionally, and are also financially independent in their own right. Srijani Foundation worked in collaboration with the Takshila Foundation at Parivartan, who provided infrastructural assistance in making this possible.
Srijani Foundation also trained to empower 24 rural women from Siwan in handloom weaving, in May 2016. They were taught how to create basic fabric on a hand loom, and were provided raw materials to help start the process of handloom spinning independently. They have been integrated into Takshila Foundation since February 2018 for sustainable livelihood opportunities in the textile market.