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We train women and move them to generate income.
We also engage them in capacity building programs like quiz shows , focussed trainings , recreational activities and field trips. This enables them be be better adjusted and socially aware citizens.
Children from these families are also sponsored their school fee in English medium schools to ensure that basic education is imparted .
- Income generation,
- Sponsoring,
- school fee,
- education,
- business skills,
- skill trainings,
- production,
- whole sale,
- bulk orders,
- women,
- children,
- empowerment,
- funds,
- donations,
- grants,
- jute products,
- prayer mats,
- diyas,
- livelihoods,
- quality,
- cotton,
- handloom,
- embroidery,
- Hyderabad,
- slum,
- below poverty line,
- marginalised community,
- capacity building,
- eco friendly,
- environ friendly,
- bags,
- social entrepreneurship,
- social enterprise,
- safa india,
- sustainable,
- ngo,
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Safa is committed to two core sectors of any developing nations economy:
livelihoods and education.
We are a social venture with the belief that socio economic empowerment of women begins with income generation and education.
Safa introduces the urban illiterate women to sustainable livelihoods and supports them in education of their children through an area based community model that retains the cultural and social identity of the women. Read more
Faheem Begum and Afshan:
“We bought these drums from our earnings at Safa. The drums store water to wash clothes, bathe etc. Water in our area comes on alternate days and up till now we have been storing water in small cans and buckets. The drums are sturdy and we intend to use them for a long time. It was something we wanted to buy since long. It will help ease up our daily chores and also save us time and effort.”
reading club helps
“We just wound up our Roshni Reading Club with fifteen women”, says Ms. Shanti Kushaldas, facilitator. The club is to create awareness on health, hygiene, low cost nutrition, common diseases etc. The women are in the age of 24 to 56 and are illiterate or school dropouts. After the ten lecture sessions all women received a certificate. The response was very heart warming and we found we have definitely made an impact on them. This has motivated Safa to reach our target of 100 women this year.
‘I now take (at least) a body bath daily’
‘I now eat with my family and do not eat only left overs’
‘We have been taught what our mothers did not teach us’ (a 24 year old widow with a severely anemic child)
‘I know now that sprouts are good for health. I know how to cut vegetables, when to wash and how to cook to preserve nutrition’