Friday, February 27, 2009

SPICE MAGIC – the Kinhai experience [English]

In its ongoing pursuit of happiness for rural women and children, Shekharoo Pratishsthan organized a vocational training camp for women in village Kinhai.

This camp started on 25th Jan 2009 and went on for one week until 31st Jan 2009 in one of the halls of the village primary school.

Attendants were trained to prepare and package various kinds of Indian spices, pickles, dry snacks, etc.

A forum with the district Co-operative Bazaar [market] has been arranged to provide a market place to any goods produced by these women.



A total of 40 women enrolled and took benefit of this camp. This additional skills will surely help all these women to spice up their life, by adding extra flavors to their daily cooking, and by providing an additional income source for them.

The cost for training camp was partly subsidized by district authorities, under government scheme for rural women welfare and the remaining cost has been covered from various donations received by Shekharoo Pratishthan.