Khwaab Welfare Trust

Khwaab Welfare Trust was established out of the need to empower poor women to stand on their own feet and come out of their dependency on male members Read more of their families. It recognised that women lacked in skill and knowledge to step out of their homes to search for employment. It identified two girls who had undergone training courses and readied them to teach others. The tailoring programme started with 10 women joining in and is now imparting skills at a basic and advanced levels. The organisation ensures that the training is at par with industry requirements and based on the performance of the women they are connected to appropriate employment openings. To help the women further their income Khwaab Welfare Trust started exploring other ways to use the tailoring knowledge of the women. It expanded Its product to include handicrafts and later stationary, knitwear, accessories and home décor also became part of Its range. As the Trust found that the women who were now employed and earning decent incomes needed to know other skills also, It started collaborating with other organisations to impart awareness on education, health, sanitation and financial management. Some of the women who were trained by the Trust now act as trainers to teach other women about these livelihood skills. It has managed to train 230 women on financial planning and literacy, Equipped 85 women with livelihood skills and has placed 22 women in the Trust itself as artisans creating handicraft products.