NIRMANA

Lack of perennial livelihoods causes large scale migration from the tribal dominated region of Jharkhand. While women migrate to cities as domestic workers, men find employment as construction workers. Tribal women and adolescent girls are the most vulnerable as they are lured or trafficked by unscrupulous middlemen and ‘sold’ to placement agencies in Delhi and other metros to work as in-house domestic workers. We are currently working in the Naxal-affected Gumla district of Jharkhand to reduce migration and child labour by providing perennial livelihood opportunities through handloom weaving and alternate livelihood such as non-timber forest produce. We can help approx. 3-5 persons per batch. Number of trained people is limited by the availability of looms. Your donation will help one tribal person to acquire handloom weaving or an alternate livelihood skill over three months so that he will earn a dignified livelihood near his home. It takes approx. 3 months to learn the weaving craft and produce commercially saleable clothes. As we have an ongoing project, we are able to pay for threads required for weaving through a training budget. Your donation will pay an incentive to the apprentice to come and learn weaving like a stipend. We give them Rs. 1,000 per month. Stipend for 1 month per person - Rs. 1,000 Stipend for 3 months per person - Rs. 3,000