Transcript Dalit Women Empowerment Project-India (DAWET)

Persatuan Bimbingan Kemajuan
Kanak-kanak, Remaja dan Wanita
Seremban, Negeri Sembilan
Background
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Non-for-Profit Organization
Registered in June 2013
Current members: 7 (6 women and 1 man)
Current Volunteers : 10 (8 women and 2 man)
Vision
“PBK is the most trusted and respected charity
based organization for the development of
children, women and youth from
underprivileged background ”
Activities (July – October 2013)
• Contribution to Nanthisar Children Welfare
Home, Seremban
• Independence Day and Malaysian Day
Celebration with Underprivileged Students
UPCOMING EVENTS
• Tailoring, Cake Baking and Bridal Make-up
courses for underprivileged women and single
mothers – December 2013
• Dalit Women Empowerment Project- India
(DAWET) – February 2014
Dalit Women Empowerment
Project-India (DAWET)
A Volunteering Project by :
Persatuan Bimbingan Kemajuan Kanak-kanak, Remaja
& Wanita, Seremban. Negeri Sembilan (PBK)
DAWET Project Background
• A volunteering project by PBK
• Collaboration with Deepam Trust, Tamil Nadu,
India
• A project designed for Dalit Women Group of
Tanjavur India
Indian Caste System
• In India, the people have
been systematically
discriminated on the basis
of their work and descent
for centuries.
Dalits
Who Are Dalits
Poor
Street Sweepers,
drainage cleaner
and agriculture
workers
Members of the
lowest rank of
Indian society
Discriminated at
almost every level
Economic Status of Dalits
• 80% of Dalits are still
under poverty line
• The jobs done by Dalits
rarely provide enough
income to feed their
families or to send their
children to school
Deepam Trust
• This
organisation
was
formed in 1995 with help of
govt and international NGOs
• Focus on the development
of poor women, children
and Dalits by providing skills
training and micro-loan to
start small businesses
• The overall goal for the DAWET project is to
improve quality of life for the poor and
marginalized Dalit women by providing skills
training and opportunity to start a small scale
business.
• Two main activities:
– Cake Baking Training (15 women)
– Nursery Raising (15 women)
Cake Baking Business
Model
1. Cake Baking Training
Dalit Women
Become Small Scale
Micro-credit Loan Entrepreneur
by Deepam Trust
Trainees Able
to Produce
Cake Baking Training
By PBK Volunteers
(6 types of Cake)
Train More
Dalit Women
2. Nursery Raising
Business Model
Crops are
planted in
polybags
Nursery
Raising
Training by
PBK
Volunteers
Marketing
Activities by
Deepam Trust
Income
generation
through
crops
selling
Expected Outcome
• Trained Dalit women will be able to generate
income for themselves and their family by
starting up small-scale baking business and
crop selling
• More Dalit women will be trained once the
initial batch of trainers teach other women
Why DAWET Project
Dalit women
• Learn new skills
• Income generation
Deepam Trust
PBK
• Volunteers supply to train Dalit
women
• Modules can be used to train
more women
• Income generation
• International volunteering
experience
• Signature project
• Modules can be used to train
more local women
Milestone
• Phase 1 – Module Preparation & Sponsorship Request
(January 2014)
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Recipes for cakes
SOP for baking
SOP for crop plantation
Presentation to potential sponsors
• Phase 2 –Training for Trainers
– 7 volunteers will undergo training program on baking and crop
plantation
– Simulation Program for volunteers
• Phase 3 – Program Implementation
– Training for Dalit Women 14th – 24th February 2014 at Tanjavur,
India
• Phase 4 – Continuous Learning
– Collaborate with Deepam Trust for further training
How You Can Help
Project Costing
ITEM
TOTAL COST (USD)
Travel and Accommodation (7
Trainers)
3,500
Module Preparation & Trainers
Training
Training Equipments & Materials
1,000
Business Start-up Fund for Dalit
Women
TOTAL (USD)
2,500
1,000
8,000
Contact
MISS RAJESWARI MURUGAYAH
President,
Persatuan Bimbingan Kemajuan Kanakkanak, Remaja dan Wanita (PBK)
016-6851715
[email protected]