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SAF Vocational Training - University of Jammu
Project Proposal for re-grouping of SAF-Madanjeet Singh Scholarship scheme for Women Enterpreneurship Development in J&K State.
14th June 2007
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The vocational training for girls at the Kalamkari College of Education in Jammu includes handicrafts, and skills such as tie-and-dye, block printing of textiles, papier mâché, and basket- and toy-making.
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A Memorandum of Understanding was signed in New Delhi between the SAF Founder and Vice Chancellor of Jammu University in December 2002 for a rural women entrepreneurship development programme.
The scholarship scheme was organized by the Centre for Adult Continuing Education, University of Jammu, under the direction of Dr Poonam Dhawan to provide learning opportunities to women from humble backgrounds to enhance their economic and social well being.
The selection will be made by the University and will be open to women 20 - 40 years old.
They should be educated but not graduates, from different villages in the region and willing to reside at the University for nine months training.
For each group there will be compulsory subjects: general English, Computer Skills, Junior Foundation Management Courses and entrepreneurial skills.
The elective subjects will be: Textile printing and designing, Art and Craft, Bakery and Confectionery, Agro-based skills, Maintenance and Repair of household gadgets and equipment, Food Preservation.
In 2003 twenty-eight girls enrolled in the vocational training programme. They formed groups on the basis of their interests and specialization and set up their own enterprises.
In 2005 among the 33 candidates, 9 were selected for the Pre-Primary Education Programme in addition to the previously offered vocational training courses. 197 women returned to their communities with their Certificates and started their own enterprises,either alone, or in partnership with other girls from the programme.
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SAF-Madanjeet Singh Vocation Training Scholarships
Field Report
September 2006, Jammu University
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- - -SAF SOS-Kinderdorf International Vocational Training
After an agreement signed in 2004 between the South Asia Foundation and SOS-Kinderdorf International, 251 children have benefited from the SAF Madanjeet Singh scholarship in India in 2005. The three year programme will stretch until 2008. 
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Hunny from SOS CV Rajpura. |
251 youngsters from SOS Villages in India were able to benefit from the SAF Madanjeet Singh scholarship for vocational training, after an agreement was signed in 2004 between the South Asia Foundation and SOS Villages. | |
SAF Vocational Training - University of Kashmir
Present status of the Project PPERA, University of Kashmir, Srinagar (J&K)
17th March 2008
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Proposal for the Admission of the Students for the year 2006-07 under Project PPERA
Institute of Home Science, University of Kashmir, Srinagar
14th June 2007
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Invited by the SAF Founder to attend the South Asia Foundation Learning Initiative meeting in New Delhi on 14th December 2003, Professor Ahmed Khan Tareen, Vice Chancellor of Kashmir University, submitted a training project at the Institute of Home Science (Kashmir University).
Professors of the University had designed a unique one-year diploma course which would extensively train educated girls in pre-primary education, childcare and entrepreneurship skills to run a school.
The pilot project started in 2003 and 30 girls were trained. The girls (grade 10) were selected from rural areas and it was a rigorous process involving the local village Panchayat and University experts.
The final list was formally approved by a Committee consisting of the Chancellor of the University (Governor), a representative of the University and SAF India.
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Example of school opened by SAF Vocational Training Scholarship program. |
The scholarship amount per awardee provided for free accommodation, laboratory expenses and field training, teaching material, remuneration to faculty and miscellaneous expenses at the discretion of the course Director. One of the intentions of this educational initiative was to generate individuals who were both educators and entrepreneurs, and would introduce high grade self-sustaining education into rural Kashmir.
A Memorandum of Understanding between the South Asia Foundation and the University was signed in 2003. Three years later 86 girls from different regions (Ladakh, Uri,Gurez, Qazigund, Banifal, Karnah, Doda) were trained and started their own “Phoolban Schools” with school equipment, toys and teaching aids provided by the SAF.
So far 112 women have been trained. This project completely transformed the shy village girls into bold personalities, ready to take the challenge and become women entrepreneurs in education.
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SAF IT Coordinators Training in Reading (UK)
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SAF-Madanjeet Singh Scholarship Programme
Cheque Distribution Ceremony / Regional Cooperation Seminar
25th April 2007, Kashmir University
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