An Indian Women’s Community for Empowerment

Shyama Tanwar, Managing Trustee and the HR Manager at Sambhali Trust:

When women come here, they are often very weak. They have been suffering financially and socially for a very long time, and feel very alone.

When they arrive, they meet other women with similar struggles and realize they are not alone in this.

This is the first step to building confidence: having a community that is supportive and understanding.

They start learning to sew, and when they improve they come to the graduate sewing center. There they are able to start making money, slowly becoming financially independent so that when they leave they feel empowered to continue earning their own livelihoods.

These women learn English, Hindi, Math, and workshops including human rights, women’s health, economy, and more.

They feel they have access to the knowledge they were deprived of for so long, and this nurtures dignity.

They are better able to provide for and teach their children, to nurture the next generation to be confident and powerful. And all of this happens in a safe and uplifting community of other women, that endures long after they leave Sambhali’s walls.