Women Corner

Being daughter of Balochistan, her vision is to see people educated, happy and empowered as a result of her efforts. For past 10 years, she served in communities of Balochistan and worked with many women groups and built capacity on their personal and social issues. After returning from Australia award, She had set another target to establish women corner comprising of Sewing & Stitching Course, Handicraft/needle work course with Outlet, Computer Training, English Language course, Beautician course with Polar, Cooking Course with food point, Healthcare & sport center, in district Khuzdar for the benefit of the women and destitute families of local community. The corner would not only polish their skills even they would express their ideas, practice and earn money in order to improve their living standard. It was planned with the dual aim of empowering 150 women and making them self sufficient alongside providing education and community development in compliance with SDGS. After continues running and follow ups, we succeeded to extract a place for women corner from Government & signed MoU for the largest benefit of my community.

HANDICRAFT/ SEWING AND STITCHING COURSE

Students would be provided everything from cloth, stationery to any other material they require, free of charge. After completing this course, most girls find jobs at boutiques, open their own shops, start stitching clothes at home to earn money or start to teach sewing from home to earn a monthly income. Sometimes they accept mass orders from boutiques and divide the work among themselves to finish work on time.

Five short courses are offered under this program.

1. Basic
2. Ladies fashion design
3. Frocks designs
4. New born complete sets

COMPUTER TRAINING

Daily classes are conducted by a qualified and experienced teacher in our well equipped computer laboratory and LCD screen would be used to effectively teach the course to our students through slides and videos, specially formulated for our courses. The students follow instructions on their computers and with weeks of practice are capable to apply for jobs.

Following are the courses are offered under this program:
1. MS Office
2. English and Urdu typing
3. Internet utilization such as Email
4. Graphic design: CorelDraw, HTML, Photoshop and Urdu inpage.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE COURSE

The Association realized that the greatest need of the female students and job oriented women was an understanding of the English language. The interactive content would be used for Basic English Language course, and for the Advance Course. Our instructor is proficient in English and would engage the students in conversation and activities and showing educational documentaries. Group projects, daily conversation and writing assignments would be carried out to improve their vocabulary and pronunciation.

BEAUTICIAN AND GROOMING COURSE

This course was started because of the great demand of female workers in this field. It would be conducted by a highly qualified teacher who gives basic and advance training in:

• Facials
  ● Bleach
  ● Threading
  ● Manicure
  ● Pedicure
  ● Waxing
  ● Cutting
  ● hair styles
  ● Hair Dye
  ● Eye makeup
  ● Party makeup
  ● Engagement makeup
  ● Bridal makeup
  ● Henna application nail art

COOKING COURSE

Our cooking class would cover various cultural dishes, a fridge and utensil sets. The program includes starters, salads, chicken dishes, rice dishes, meat dishes, deserts, Chinese and continental dishes. Basic and advance courses are offered and altogether 50 different dishes would be taught. Students are taught how to bake on the stove without the use of costly equipment and gadgets.

HEALTHCARE CENTER

MERC realized that there is need for women to be able to exercise in the absence of open grounds and parks. Yoga and Aerobics are taught by an experienced instructor at MERC. Diet Plans would be given out and their weight would be regularly monitored.

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