CGM runs regular sewing training programmes for very poor Hindu women and widows. The course runs for 6 to 9 months and women who graduate get a treadle sewing machine. This programme sets women up to earn a small income and care for their families.

Beneficiaries

The women for the first course of 20 were drawn from the Adduroad of Visakhapatnam community. They were chosen for the difficulty of their circumstances. This course was completed in 2008 and by the end of the course demand had grown so that six courses could be managed starting in late 2008. These courses were completed in September 2009 with 40 women graduating and receiving a sewing machine. A further set of classes were begun in April 2010, now total 80 women are under training.
The stories of hardship told by these women are tragic and such is the deprivation of many involved. From the first two lots of courses over 40 women have come to faith, been baptized and are now active in a church.

What We Like About The Partnership

These courses reach the poorest of the poor & Widows – women who have one set of clothes and only some basic cooking utensils that they call their own. The courses are run so that the gospel and Biblical based encouragement is given each training day.
Many of the women lost their Husbands and some led husbands, children, neighbours and wider family members to the Lord with powerful testimonies of changed lives. Reaching women is a positive way to reach a community. 

This is a very cost effective project that is relatively easily established and managed.

Relationship To Other Partnerships

This project has led to other sewing classes in and around many places and is associated with  Care project and many women coming foreword to enroll in this project.
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Annual budget for the training is $13,400 for training 80 women , including 80 sewing machines.
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