Sustainable Skills in Tailoring

Sustainable Skills in Tailoring and Beauty & Wellness

Program Name: Threads of Life

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Incepted in 1996

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We run this program in four different centres: Hennur, Kannur, Bhavikere and Bhadravathi

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Features:

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12 months of tailoring training (Basic and Advance)

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Beautician skills

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Spoken English

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Personality Development

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Numeracy

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Card making

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Pot Painting

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Basic Computers

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Awareness on health and hygiene

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Life Skills and awareness of women’s rights

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Free sewing machine on successful completion of a course

“Threads of Life” a tailoring program empowers women who are from very poor backgrounds and work either as domestic maids or as home makers. Some are emotionally disturbed because of domestic violence and want a way out in their economic and social life while others are gripped with generational poverty and seeking a sustainable livelihood to break away from the spell of this poverty. This program has scaled their outlook to better social living and economic empowerment.
The highlight of the one-year training is the gift of a sewing machine that each successful trainee gets on her graduation day from YuvaLok. She begins to earn her livelihood through this new found skill in tailoring the day she graduates.

Success Story

Trainee: Kavya
Graduation Year: 2020

Kavya has many dreams in her eyes. She is energetic with a zeal and hope to become a self-dependent woman. She wants to support her family financially too. She resides in Hosuru Bande Kannur Village, Bangalore, Karnataka with her children and husband. Due to financial difficulties at home, she is not able to manage her day-to-day life. Her children are studying in YuvaLok and through parents-teachers meet, she came to know about this tailoring program which empowers young women. 

She expressed a lot of interest in learning sewing and had the passion to do something for herself and her family. After the successful completion of her course from YuvaLok, she received a free sewing machine. A small boutique in her home will benefit her in the future. Now she commands great respect from her family as well as other community, as she is financially secure. In her words “This course has greatly helped me as I can stand on my own feet with confidence”. YuvaLok takes great pride in women like her who have the courage to challenge the trivial norms of the society and emerge stronger.
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