Two Vocational Training Centres are currently functioning in New Delhi slums. The first one was opened in October 2007 with the collaboration of “HPS Foundation” (New Delhi); the second one in January 2008 thanks to “PPAP” (New Delhi).
These centres are pragmatically dedicated to underprivileged teenage girls and women, to teach them basic life skills (dress making, computing, hand and machine embroidery. This knowledge is assumed to help them maximize their future earning capacities and is hopeful to favour economic development of the covered slums, transmitting new skills to the community. Sakshi's team considers that this kind of action will free these slums from the vicious cycle of poverty.
In October 2008, 42 teenage girls and young women were registered in these centres.
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