Jodhpur Project News

The new batch and older batch are doing wonderful and are working hard on their work every day, the older batch has started to work and concentrate more on their sewing skills as this would be the step towards their self sustainability from June 2009 when they will graduate.

Some of the graduates will be put to get married by their families after some time of their graduating from us. Therefore some days of the week the girls become emotionally down and are low in energy, they are sad to leave the project and then when they will be married (arranged) by their families, they will have to go and live with a man they don’t know.

The Sambhali Trust as a follow up of the Jodhpur Project wants to help them with micro finance which will help them open their sewing centers (one center among 5 - 6 Sambhali graduated girls), where they can stitch clothes on order, this will bring them economical stability and will keep all the girls connected even after they leave the project. This will also give us a chance to keep connected to them, as the Sambhali Trust will keep an eye over the progress of the sewing centers.

Volunteers

Marriage season is nearly over and girls have started to come more regularly, Ms. Elisa from Germany, volunteering with us is doing a great job and recently one of the guest at the guest house Ms. Carolina wished to join the Sambhali Jodhpur Project as volunteer for a month, both the ladies have done interesting world projects and are teaching English to the girls. We are happy with the results, more from them is available on their reports.

One morning one guest arrived at the guest house who wished to stay longer and I got into conversation with her, yes I am talking about Ms. Corinne from UK, for more please read the reports in the main site.

Similarly we received an email from Jaipur from Ms. Pinky from the UK who wished to volunteer with us for two months, without loosing the opportunity we accepted her request and now Ms. Pinky has joined us and will start helping with the reports from today.

Linz Presentation 2009

Doors after doors opening for the Sambhali Trust Presentation in Linz, Austria for June 2009. After speaking with Ms. Ernestine of Soziale Initiative on the Presentation matter as I was unaware of how it shall be put together etc., it sounded easy for me to say but to obtain at least a final draft for the presentation would have been a very difficult job, as I have never done anything like this before.

A 10 minutes documentary on the girls will be shown on the presentation in Austria, therefore we requested our friend Ms. Catherine Vibert from the Cat Vibe Production in the USA to help us with the documentary. Catherine happily accepted our request, we are soo excited about the presentation and our volunteers are working very hard for the purpose.