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EMPOWERMENT SECTORS

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.

8th Women’s Enterprise Graduation Wraps Up In Style

Women’s Development Training in Seenigama

Rural women outshine themselves yet again.

Goodness volunteer’s experience

Refining skills and learning from the very best

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