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Arunodaya SC Welfare Residential Public School Association

ERSF gave £6,000 to Arunodaya SC Welfare Residential Public School Association for Dalith Women Empowerment through the promotion of vocational skills. Tailoring and embroidery was the main focus of the training programme to create confidence among the women that they can earn sufficient money to become self suficient.

SKIP

All expenses for SKIP’s (Students for Kids International Prosummer 2008 project were covered thanks to a £5,000 grant from ERSF. Each year a certain allocation of the annual budget is spent on fundraising materials and because of the money received from ERSF, those costs were covered comfortably without encroaching on the budget for materials in […]

Rural Women’s Development Trust

The main purpose of an ERSF grant to the Rural Women’s Development Trust was to start ten non-formal education centres for the most deprived children and simultaneously train 100 adolescent girls in bamboo products to help them secure a better future. The £7,267 paid for, among other things, the purchase of education and coaching materials, […]

Gramodaya Rural Development Society

An education for children of HIV/AIDS and leprosy sufferers received a £4,500 cash injection with an ERSF grant to Gramodaya Rural Development Society. The money was spent on teaching materials, salaries, furniture, nutritional refreshments and medication. “Due to leprosy these children’s parents are unable to work because of their crippled hands and foot ulcers,” said […]

Victory Rural Development Society 2008

Vocational training for drop-out girls from socially disadvantaged poor communities was carried out with the help of an ERSF grant to Victory Rural Development Society. The £9,725 was used to buy sewing machines, hand embroidery frames, raw materials for training, tools and kits plus salaries and expenses. “This training is now providing good opportunities for […]