Phases :
1: Foundation Training :✔️
2: Shirt Making Module :✔️
3: Pant & Salwar Module :✔️
4: Blouse & Pico-Fall Module :✔️
5: Bags & Utility Items :✔️
6: Certification & Convocation :✔️
To empower women with certified, industry-ready skills in readymade garment production—enabling them to launch independent micro-enterprises, secure sustainable income sources, and become confident contributors to local economic development.
Founder @ Satyashodhak.org
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Project Beneficiaries:
Foundation Skill Training: Participants learned stitching basics, fabric measurement, threading, pedal control, safety practices, and troubleshooting techniques, ensuring every woman could operate a machine independently.
Shirt Construction Module: Women practiced drafting, cutting, sleeve attachment, collar preparation, and full finishing, enabling them to stitch standard shirts suitable for local market requirements.
Pant & Salwar Training: This stage covered waistbands, pockets, fall alignment, side-seam accuracy, and fitting methods, giving women confidence in bottom-wear production.
Blouse, Pico & Fall Work: Participants were trained in precise blouse tailoring, pico, and fall application—skills with daily demand in tailoring shops and home-based units.
Bags & Utility Product Making: Women learned to stitch handbags, cloth totes, and utility pouches, expanding their earning potential.
Certification & Convocation: All trained women received formal certification, recognizing their proficiency in 20+ employable garment skills, encouraging entrepreneurship and home-based income generation.
This project mattered because it gave women certified skills that directly translated into real income opportunities.
It enabled social upliftment for semi-urban, OBC, SC and ST women who previously had limited access to skill training.
By learning 20+ employable tailoring skills, participants gained confidence to start home-based or independent enterprises.
Most importantly, it created sustainable livelihood pathways, strengthening families and contributing to long-term community development.
Between 1994 and 2000, Satyashodhak Mahila Vikas Mandal implemented one of its most transformative and pioneering initiatives—the Readymade Garments Project, designed to empower semi-urban women through structured, industry-level garment training. This landmark project focused on building practical skills, entrepreneurial confidence, and long-term economic independence among women who previously had limited access to formal livelihood opportunities.
The primary objective of this initiative was simple yet powerful: equip women with comprehensive, employable garment-production skills and enable them to take charge of their own income-generation journey. The training curriculum covered the entire spectrum of garment making—right from fabric measurements, pattern understanding, precise cutting techniques, stitching, expert ironing, finishing, and professional packaging. This holistic skill-building approach ensured women not only learned garment-making as a craft but also gained the confidence to convert their learning into sustainable self-employment.
A total of 45 women, including participants from OBC, SC and ST communities, enrolled in this six-year journey. They progressed through a thoughtfully structured training pathway that strengthened their abilities step by step. The training began with foundation skill-building, where women learned machine handling, measurement, threading, safety practices, and basic sewing lines. This base prepared them for the advanced garment modules that followed.
In the next stage, women were trained in shirt construction, learning drafting, sleeve cutting, collar making, and finishing techniques essential in the local tailoring market. They further advanced to pant and salwar stitching, covering waistbands, pockets, fall alignment, and fitting methods. Precision tailoring formed the next component, where participants mastered blouse stitching, pico, and fall work, skills that are consistently in demand and offer daily livelihood opportunities even in semi-urban settings.
The project also diversified women’s abilities by introducing bag-making and utility-item stitching, enabling them to produce handbags, cloth totes, and small commercial items that could be sold locally or through SHG networks. By the end of the program, each participant had acquired 20+ market-relevant skills that opened pathways to home-based tailoring units and micro-enterprises.
The project concluded with a formal certification and convocation ceremony, recognizing each woman’s achievement and reinforcing their identity as skilled garment professionals.
This six-year initiative stands as a remarkable chapter in Satyashodhak Mahila Vikas Mandal’s history, demonstrating how structured training, compassionate support, and access to skills can create generational change. It remains a powerful example of women’s empowerment, entrepreneurship development, and community progress in Maharashtra.
Established in 1986, Satyashodhak Mahila Vikas Mandal is one of Maharashtra’s oldest and most respected NGOs working for women empowerment, skill development, and rural upliftment. Our mission is to transform lives through training, dignity, and opportunity.
Unlike one-time sewing machine distributions, this project offered holistic, hands-on training that enabled women to build real, sustainable livelihoods. It combined technical skills, market understanding, and confidence building—a complete ecosystem for self-reliance.
Donating machines alone does not create income. Right skills + right guidance + right networks = real livelihood. Satyashodhak ensured all three, enabling women to earn with dignity rather than remain dependent.
The project trained 45 semi-urban women, including those from SC and ST communities, giving them employable skills and the courage to start their own home-based enterprises.
Participants learned 20+ core skills including shirt stitching, pant/salwar making, blouse fitting, pico–fall work, bag making, cutting, measurement, finishing, and professional packaging.
Certification gave women industry credibility, helping them secure tailoring jobs, build customer trust, and confidently start independent micro-enterprises.
Many women established stable home-based tailoring units, improved family income, supported children’s education, and became financially independent for the first time.
For nearly four decades, Satyashodhak has built results-driven projects—not charity-based but capability-building initiatives that promote lifelong progress.
Yes. Along with skills, women received local market connections, SHG support, and guidance on pricing, sourcing, and customer relations, making the project truly transformational.
The initiative directly supports SDG 5 (Gender Equality) and SDG 8 (Decent Work) by creating long-term, dignified livelihood opportunities for women—making it a benchmark project in sustainable community development.
