Women's Enterprise
The Women's Enterprise programme includes classes to empower and inspire rural women, to learn new skills that help them in their family and community as well as being able to develop their own enterprises.
Courses provided to women at the MCC Centre of Excellence and Udumulla Village Heartbeat Centre are all six months in duration and culminate in a graduation ceremony. Since March 2007, 515 women have passed the courses.
- Sewing
- Patchwork
- Industrial Sewing Machine Training
- Beauty Culture
- Lace making
- General Cookery
- Dessert and pastry making
- English classes
Community aid work is undertaken by the women. Together, they collect funds and use them to contribute to a community project of their choosing. Projects have included purchasing spectacles for a local woman, payment for an eye operation for an elderly woman and assistance to a poor family to purchase a house.
Products made by local women trained at the Women's Enterprise classes are sold at the Lahiru Handicrafts Boutique, located at the MCC Centre of Excellence in Seenigama.
Evaluation Presentation (IYF/Nokia) 2007-2009
Youth Entrepreneurship Workshop: Lessons for Post-Tsunami Reconstruction
Women the Heartbeat of Community Development
‘NO RESERVATIONS’ IN SEENIGAMA
MORE WOMEN GAIN COMPETANCY FOR INCOME GENERATION
ENTERPRISE ACTION EMPOWERS PEOPLE
OF SEENIGAMA AND ITS REGION
Women's Enterprise Centre celebrates graduation day
IYF visits youth training program at Foundation
International Women's Day March 2006
Women have an extremely vital role to play in today's society and on 8th March, the world came together to celebrate, respect, discuss and advance the role of women on...
Entrepreneurship in Seenigama 12th February 2006
In January 2005, a group of Babson College students gathered to discuss how they could help ... |
