20 rural women of Matoon in Udaipur have worked day and night to stitch uniforms for 1000 anganwadi children. These uniforms were stitched by the Sakhees in flat 19 days working almost 8 hours a day.
Hindustan Zinc had provided professional training to about 125 rural women for stitching school uniforms. A similar project of “Sakhi” in Debari in Udaipur is stitching uniform for the 1000 boys.
From pattern making to cutting fabric to stitching and ultimately ironing and packaging is all being done by these rural women of Project “Sakhi” by Hindustan Zinc.
To bring in economic and social empowerment of rural and tribal women in Rajasthan, Hindustan Zinc launched Project “Sakhi” 2 years back. “Sakhi” project has a focus to build various product clusters that include fashion garments, home-furnishing, spices making, art & craft, mats making, candle making, soap making and other products that can be used by people at large.
More than 3000 rural and tribal women are part of “Sakhi” Project and they are being trained in different cluster formations. These clusters are located in Ajmer, Udaipur, Chittorgarh, Bhilwara, Rajsamand and Sikar, all in Rajasthan. Social media presence (www.facebook.com/vedantasakhi ) reaches to over 85,000 people from across India.
Recently, Hindustan Zinc signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Government of Rajasthan under the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) to adopt 3055 Anganwadi Centers in five districts of Rajasthan – Udaipur, Chittorgarh, Bhilwara, Rajsamand and Ajmer for 5 years as part of its global “Khushi” campaign. Providing school uniforms to Anganwadi children is part of this MoU.