Vocational programs are
designed to help women’s financial security and self-reliance by increasing their
capacity in traditional and non-traditional skills. Our vocational programs provide women
with ‘hands on’ training in skills such as dye making, embroidery, brick laying,
etc. The programmes both increase women’s skills in existing trades and develop
skills in new trades.
By upgrading women’s existing skills, SEWA’s vocational training
can increase women’s earning potential and security. Even active, long-term women
workers usually get the least skilled jobs in a trade, leaving them underpaid and more
vulnerable than their male counterparts. Training women in new skills has become
particularly critical as increasing globalisation and mechanization has made many of
women’s traditional skills outdated.
Vocational training
programmes are carefully planned with women’s needs and emerging market realities in
mind. Programs are developed in partnership with supportive, skilled instructors. We work
closely to identify and interface with government training centres and programs are
developed where they are available and appropriate.
