VOCATIONAL TRAINING

Tailoring Training:

This centre is run for the local volunteers of Roopkatha and Kaikala Chetana, and ‘differently abled’ young adults to help them in self-employment for their rehabilitation through gainful employment. At present, eight trainees including two with disabilities have been receiving training in this center. Along with the prospect of an independent income, the training gives them big dividends in the form of an image makeover.

The centre is equipped with two pedestal sewing machines and a professional tailor trains the students once a week. In other days, the trainees come to the centre and practice with their personal requirement. Slowly but surely these trainees are moving into self-employment to mainly cater to the needs of the local market; and then the new trainees will join.

Carpentry Training:

This centre is also run for the local volunteers of Roopkatha and Kaikala Chetana, and ‘differently abled’ young adults to help them in self-employment for their rehabilitation through gainful employment. At present, six trainees are receiving training in this center. Along with the prospect of an independent income, the training gives them big dividends in the form of an image makeover.

The centre is equipped with necessary carpentry tools and a professional carpenter trains the students once a week. In other days, the trainees come to the centre and practice. Roopkatha supplies them with required raw materials. The aim is to produce simple wooden toys and specific teaching materials such as geometric shapes, dimensions, and spatial brightly colored wooden blocks..

Computer Literacy:

It is for the children who attend Resource Center, village children who attend high school and for the young volunteers of Roopkatha Foundation and Kaikala Chetana.

5 children and 5 volunteers have so far learnt to work on MS Word to a satisfactory level. They are learning MS-Excel now. The successful trainees will have the opportunity to do some practical computer jobs in the office of Roopkatha and Chetana to keep alive the skills learnt and learn further skills before they can use their skill in a bigger world.

‘Reach out to their Homes’ Program:

This is a package program to help out the disabled children and young adults in the areas they need services and support. The disabled children attend the Inclusive Learning Centers in the villages. The teachers and community volunteers visit their homes and help in learning. The children receive medical facilities. They also receive clothes, toiletries and other materials for domestic use. At the moment, 6 (six)) disabled children and young adults benefit from this program and the plan is to reach out to many more children and young adults.

ROOPKATHA has also the plan to extend livelihood support to the families of the disabled children and young adults through suitable income generation schemes.

We look forward that each such unit in rural Bengal will create modern day Roopkathas.

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