Campaign Status

Ongoing Online: The campaign is currently ongoing online and, thus still in the process of collecting funds.

Summary

The campaign aims to offer a monthly training workshop for 20 women, where they can learn stitching under the guidance of an experienced trainer. Our goal is to encourage families living below the poverty line to send their girls to our workshop for stitchery training. To incentivize participation, we will provide rewards for their learning efforts. Furthermore, we plan to sell their completed projects through an exhibition at the conclusion of the workshop.

Challenge

Hundreds of women struggle to maintain their education, health, dignity, and happiness in the face of poverty and societal dogma. The lack of education pushes these women into depression and a life devoid of hope. Their children are born with difficulties due to their mothers' ongoing depression. Thousands of women in our community don't work and generate income because they believe it's a man's job, or because leaving their homes is unacceptable to their families.

At Shad Foundation, we became aware of the struggles faced by women stitchers when we established our boutique in Rawalpindi with the mission to employ only women as a means to build our community.

Women came to us for training and employment, and they shared their stories with us. We heard about the resistance they faced from their families when deciding to learn a new skill and become more self-reliant. We witnessed their gradual progress in learning to stitch and experienced their eagerness to do, earn, and succeed.

Solution

We are now taking our experience and community to the next level! Shad Foundation is organizing one monthly training workshop for 20 women to learn stitching under the guidance of an experienced trainer. We want to encourage families under the poverty line to send their girls to our workshop and learn stitchery. We will provide them with incentives for learning. Additionally, we will sell their final projects through an exhibition at the end of the workshop.

The purpose of our campaign is to support women's health, poverty alleviation, and a reduced sense of inequality within communities that are forced to live under the poverty line and have no access to dignified income. We will do this by incentivizing our training for women entrepreneurship and by providing easily accessible business tools like their personal bank accounts and WhatsApp business pages.