Tailoring Projects (Classes in Traditional Handcrafts):
- Tailoring
classes will be taught by professional tailors, two of whom already
work for HOOWA. Fazila, is a certified teacher. Anisa was a
handcraft and sewing teacher who opened and ran an underground
school for ninety girls and also held clandestine literacy classes
for women during the Taliban regime.
- As
a condition of enrolling in HOOWA’s tailoring classes and
receiving their sewing machines and materials when they graduate,
women must agree to take HOOWA’s literacy classes and become
proficient in reading and writing.
- Habiba
Sarabi, the Minister of Women’s Affairs, has arranged for
HOOWA to run additional tailoring classes for the thousands of
widows who are beseeching the Ministry for help, but whose families
will not allow them to learn to read. The Ministry can provide some
space for these classes but has no funds for sewing machines or
materials.
Monitoring
process: This grant will be monitored by HOOWA and Fahima
Vorgetts, who makes several trips to Afghanistan during the year. (She
has just recently returned from Kabul.) The granting agent will be
provided with detailed lists of expenditures at the beginning and end
of each course and, if resources permit, photographs and videos of
the classes in session. Brief biographies of the students and
backgrounds of the training personnel will also be available upon
request as will any other information requested.
HOOWA PROPOSAL
Project: Opening a Tailoring School
for Widows in Afghanistan
Project
Title: Tailoring School
Location: Kabul, Afghanistan
Applicant and project designer: Humanitarian Organization for Orphans and
Widows of Afghanistan
Objectives:
to
enable widows to become self-sufficient by providing vocational
training in tailoring
to
help graduates of the program start small businesses by giving them
a sewing machine and other essential equipment, such as worktables.
No.
of students per course 300
Duration
of course 90 days
No.
of Trainers 15
Cost
of training each student is approximately $110. This proposal
requests funds for 1200 students (four courses), the maximum HOOWA
can handle over 1 year.
| Trainer's salary for 3 months | $100/mo. | 15x3 | 4,500 |
| Machines | 300 | $45 | 13,500 |
| Work tables | 300 | $10 | 3,000 |
| Chairs for students | 300 | $10 | 3,000 |
| Cloth | 3000 meters | $1 per meter | 3,000 |
| Rent for school building | | $500 per month | 1,500 |
Operating expenses
(electricity,
lunches, paper goods, etc.) | | | 3,000 |
Transportation (many women will
come
from villages outside Kabul) | | | 2,000 |
| | | TOTAL per semester | US $33,500 |
| | | year for a total of 1200 students: | $134,000 |
NOTE:
Once the school is established and training in tailoring is
underway, HOOWA expects to provide some further training in small
business management and marketing. Eventually, courses in these
subjects would form an integral part of the program. |