Atma Nirbhar
This project provides employment to 35+ disabled adults in Guwahati’s food packaging industry. AFNA partners with FST to offer fair wages, benefits, and PF.
The project seeks to support women’s empowerment and economic self-sufficiency by supporting them in making and selling embroidered quilts—a legacy of a traditional skill women who inherit from their mother in char chapori areas in Barpeta districts of Assam. 60 women artisans of 10 livelihoods group who belongs to Char and rural areas of Barpeta District of Assam were identified under the project.
This is an initiative started to provide sustainable livelihood to women from the Char-charpori area in the Barpeta district of Assam. It is a project supported by the Non-Profit Organization- Foundation for Social Transformation (FST). AFNA has provided the funds to support their activities such as training, market participation, procurement of raw materials and production process. The workers had market orientations to become familiar with sales. Market linkage was established by taking part in the Kalakriti exhibition. For the future AFNA will assist with FST’s agenda of:
Worker Training and design quality improvement
Training for Master Trainers
Procurement of raw materials purchase of sewing machines required for production
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