Vocational Training
Women must be put in a position to slove their own problems in their own way. And the Indian women are as capable of doing it as any in the world.
-Swami Vivekananda
Motherliness, hardwrok, sacrifice , intelligence, and sense of responsibility are the characteristics of Indian women. Systematic onslaught on these qualities , primacy to her physical attributes are degrading women to commodity value rather than upholding the grand ideal of Hindu wonmanhood – the mother – the first Guru of the family.
Based on this Vivekananda Kendra Vocational Training Center,(VKVTC) started in 1997 in Seijosa, to train women to be economically self-reliant.The six-month course consists of training in carpet-weaving , tailoring , Gale(Traditional Arunachali woman-wear) making, etc. In addition primary reading and writing skills, cooking, health and hygiene, story-telling, patriotic songs, etc. are also taught. The selection of trainees is through Arun Jyoti centers.
Focus : Strengthen human resource intensive technology. Socio-economic empowerment, capacity-building, Natural – resource management, Mother and child Health care, Education , Nutrition, Collective action for common causes, skill development in areas women are already skilled in value-addition to products.
Nature of Training : Multi-dimensional -vocational, Educational and Cultural
Skill: Tailoring ,knitting, crochet, Pickle, Jam and sauce preparation, packaging, bee-keeping, marketing.
Adaptability : Design and produce products as per reuqirement.
Habit Formation : Daily routine, Health, hygiene, Nutrition Literacy – reading , writing , counting.
Languages : Hindi and English.
Confidence Development : Yoga, Martial Arts
Horticulture : Develop Kitchen gardens.
Community Perspective : Conducting Value Education classes for children, story-telling , women's Awareness camps, community festivals celebrations, etc..
Marketing : Become job creators and not job seekers.
Details : Residential well Furnished training centre;trainees(girls) are drawn from interior villages.
Impact : Socio-Economic and Cultural :