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Women's Workshops

Women's workshop via Shanti Ashram will house a Vocational Training Centre, Enterprise incubator, a library, learning & meeting space and prayer hall.

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Women's Workshops

Women's Workshops

Women's Workshops

Women's Workshops

Women's Workshops

Women's workshop via Shanti Ashram will house a Vocational Training Centre, Enterprise incubator, a library, learning & meeting space and prayer hall.

Women's workshop via Shanti Ashram will house a Vocational Training Centre, Enterprise incubator, a library, learning & meeting space and prayer hall.

Women's workshop via Shanti Ashram will house a Vocational Training Centre, Enterprise incubator, a library, learning & meeting space and prayer hall.

Women's workshop via Shanti Ashram will house a Vocational Training Centre, Enterprise incubator, a library, learning & meeting space and prayer hall.

Katie Hoffman
Katie Hoffman
Katie Hoffman
Katie Hoffman
3 Campaigns |
Coimbatore, India
$1,350 USD 3 backers
27% of $5,000 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal
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Donate today and provide the means for rural women to start their small business enterprise, receive vocational training, and more.

My name is Katie Hoffman and I am the president of MSU Students Advancing International Development (MSU SAID) and a former summer intern at Shanti Ashram (www.shantiashram.org). Shanti Ashram, our international partner is located in the 40 remote regions of Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India; it is a center for learning and community development for over 200,000 people in the Perur and Madukkarai Blocks. Shanti Ashram is a creative laboratory where the problems faced by our communities can be both identified and provided with constructive solutions. Our spiritual motivation inspires us to be engaged in social action.
 
Each year, Shanti Ashram chooses a project that needs funding/development and SAID raises money for this initiative.

For the 2013-14 school year, MSU SAID will support another women's initiative for women's workshops. This marks our seventh overall project and second women's empowerment initiative.

The women's workshop will house a Vocational Training Centre, an Enterprise incubator, a small library, learning & meeting space and prayer hall. This will help annually 500 rural women and younger girls who have dropped out of school and enable them to avail vocational skills, incubate their business ideas and avail services both knowledge and financial for starting their enterprises.


Last school year, SAID raised $5,000 for the Aakkam Initiative-- a revolving scholarship fund to provide loans to high school and college-aged women and provide them with leadership training, career guidance, health counseling, basic computer training, etc. The initiative is currently serving 30 young women to empower them and create active leaders in their communities. The revolving fund aspect is a sustainable solution and allows beneficiaries to reapply for loans each year of college. In turn, it will continue to help girls afford college for many years to come.

YOU can save lives and create bright futures for a women and their families by donating today.

"When you educate a women, you educate an entire family."

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