43 Women Set to Graduate Tailoring Center in Nepal…and a New Class to Begin in October!
“It was a great moment in my life to go through the six-month job skill training. Now I am running a tailoring shop where I also do cosmetics and earn more than 18,000 rupees per month! I am grateful to ServeNow Nepal for saving my life when I was in distress! Through this income I am able to cover all of my expenses. Thank you for caring for us even after graduation!”
Lives Dramatically Changed Since Receiving Training & Sewing Machine!
‘It was not easy for me to learn the tailoring skills as I had very low self-esteem but you always encouraged me, prayed for me and guided me to complete the training. Thank you so much for your investment in my life to make me skillful which enables me to save my expenses on sewing the clothes. I have started to sew clothes for my family. They are very happy as I repair our torn clothes. Now I even have confidence to use this skill as an income source for my career.”
Update on Nepal Lighthouse Center
One of the children, Rasmila said, “It was very hard for me to get the satisfactory grades on the exams and I was hardly promoted to the next grade. But since I have been attending the Lighthouse center, I am very excited to see the good marks on the exams. While seeing the result, my family and school teachers were amazed! I love to come here every day as this center has become a blessing for me & my friends in many ways. I would even like to come 7 days a week. While seeing the improvement in my study, I want to be a Teacher in future.”
Thirty Nepal Tailoring Students Have Graduated!
‘I was in great need of such a training but didn’t have the ability due to several reasons. We were very unskilled women, in fact, we didn’t even know to use a needle! But now we are very happy to wear the dress which we sewed by ourselves for this graduation ceremony. We are now very confident to run our own tailoring shops to generate income to maintain our family. Now we do not need to be dependent as we have skill and a sewing machine. We are so thankful to ServeNow Nepal for providing us such a valued training, sewing machine and creating awareness against human trafficking. We are committed to work as a community watchdog for our own community, thank you for opening our eyes and saving our precious lives from being lured by the traffickers.’
New Lighthouse Centers in Nepal
Nepal is one of the poorest countries in the world. Besides all the regular problems the government needs to deal with, slum problems have been a major issue for many years. A recent study has shown that the number of slums have increased each year in the Kathmandu valley. It is estimated that more than 20,000 people live in the slums in Kathmandu.
Nepal Earthquake: One Year Later
One year ago, on April 25, 2015 at 11:56 am local time Nepal was struck with 7.8 Richter scale earthquake which was recorded by Nepal’s National Seismological Centre (NSC). Nepal had never faced a natural shock of comparable magnitude for over 80 years…The aftershocks brought landslides and new dangers, hindering survivors’ efforts to find loved ones, seek shelter and re-build. This devastating earthquake was followed by more than 400 aftershocks greater than 4.0 magnitude killed 8,686, injured more than 22,000 people; some 3 million people have been displaced and over 800,000 houses are either destroyed or damaged.