SAHAYA VOCATIONAL CENTRE
The students above 18 years are provided with Pre Vocational and Vocational training at the Sahaya Vocational Centre . Various products are manufactured, by the 3 Self Help Groups, such as paper products, tailoring of various types of bags, embroidery, knitting, etc.
Vocational training is provided to the students, to help them join the mainstream with dignity. The Centre tied up with National Skill Development Ministry to run 2 Recycling projects under the PMKVY programme of the Government. It is a pilot project where students with Intellectual Disability and local ladies have been trained to manufacture excellent products. The ladies too are being empowered and taken so that the students learn at their pace and the ladies ensure the quality of the products manufactured. The Centre’s aim has been to “Reduce, Recycle & Reuse” various products in sync with the Prime Minister’s “Swacch Bharat” and “Atma Nirbhar“ programme and these projects have been our students contribution to Society in their own way.
With this in mind 2 initiatives were started – handmade paper or “Saktha Saaz” and weaving single use plastic under the “Handloom Weaver “(Carpet) Job roles, of NSDC. Plastic packets are woven into Mats and tailored into attractive bags. Plastic bottles are re-used in the Phenyl & Liquid soap unit. Newspapers & magazines, are recycled into paper bags by the students and supplied to various Institutions. Various products like paper bags, cards, and envelopes, wrapping material, crochet bags, coasters and tailored products are taught to the students’ above18 years of age.