RSP sets up new WRCs under ‘Project Kishori’
Rourkela: Expanding the ambit of Project Kishori, a project for empowerment
of women under the CSR initiative of Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP), the steel plant
has set up 10 more Women Resource Centres (WRC) in periphery villages of
Chuabahal, Godabandh, Relaposh, Bagdega and Gudguda of Nuagaon Block and
Buchahanda, Khairban, Gopdihi, Birual and Tumren of Lathikata Block.
In a
programme organized at RSP’s Institute for Peripheral Development (IPD)
recently, 38 Master Trainers, drawn from the newly set up WRCs, were trained in
‘Improved Chullah’ making and ‘Mushroom cultivation’. During the programme, the
women were trained by experts from the Society for Rural Industrialization
(SRI), an NGO from Ranchi, in making improved smokeless chullah that will be
energy-efficient, cost-effective as well as health and environment friendly.
In the
Mushroom cultivation module, they were given inputs regarding the science and
art of the trade and ways of exploring new business opportunities. These trainers
would run training classes at the WRCs in the evening for the village women for
free, thereby spreading the knowledge and skill to hundreds of families.
In future
these Master Trainers will be trained in various other modules like ‘Food processing’,
‘Health and hygiene’, ‘vermi-compost’ etc.
It may be
mentioned that under Project Kishori, RSP has earlier established 30 Women
Resource Centres (WRC) at various villages under the four Revenue blocks of
Nuagaon, Lathikata, Bisra and Kuarmunda, that are now acting as the hubs of
learning and progress for the young women.
The aim of
the WRCs is to empower young women by training them in various income
generation activities, enhancing their self-esteem, making them conscious of
health and hygiene as well as about their social and legal rights.
Comments
Post a Comment