Providing future for underprivileged girls

Tribune News Service
Amritsar, February 19

Ficci Ladies Organisation (FLO) in collaboration with Missiondeep Education Trust will train girls from underprivileged families to develop their skill for employment.

The organisation’s Pankh project has a team of mentors, including fashion designer Himani Arora, baker and artist Rubina Singh and many known women entrepreneurs from the city. They will train girls free of cost.

“The workshops started a year ago were near completion. The girls at Missiondeep have been trained in different skills, keeping in mind their self- employment potential. But once the training culminates, they will get a chance to work with mentors or women entrepreneurs who are members of the FLO,” said Rubina Singh, who plans to offer jobs to two girls trained under her. She says that the project aims at giving them skill that could help them begin home business or self employment. “Some of these girls are quite brilliant at their work now and express the desire to balance their education along with work,” she added.

Aarushi Verma, vice chairman of the FLO, said their main aim was to focus on skill development. “The Missiondeep has been providing them education free of cost but getting jobs, despite their degrees becomes a tough task. So, under the project, these students, especially girls, are given classes in stitching, baking, beauty and wellness courses and other areas, from the best in city, to facilitate in self reliance,” Aarushi said.