Case 1
Name: Ikbal Jahan
Age: 45
Place of residence: Rajiv Nagar
Ikbal Jahan hails from Rampur district of Utter Pradesh. She was the third daughter amongst five children. Her father owned some fields, and he also worked as a tailor wherein his income was supplemented by his wife who contributed in the task of stitching by working from home. Like most of the girls of her religion living in the rural areas, Ikbal Jahan was mainly confined to the four walls of the house and was not given any education.
Ikbal Jahan moved to Delhi after her marriage more than twenty years back. She now resides with her husband, her 6 children and wife of her eldest son. Both her husband and her eldest son are construction workers.
Ikbal Jahan is a member of one such family where most of the members have benefited from one or the other programme of SEWA. With the help of SEWA, her son was registered with the Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board, that has been formed by the Indian government to provide social and economic security benefits to these workers. One of her daughters and her daughter-in-law are associated with SEWA’s cooperative bank wherein they save a fixed amount regularly on a monthly basis. Further more, 2 of her daughters do ari work under SEWA and she herself does hand embroidery and manages to earn upto Rs. 3000. Besides this, her daughters have also undertaken training in cutting and tailoring and mehandi application from SEWA’s vocational training centre.
Ikbal Jahan is an eager learner and ambitious woman. She learnt the skill of embroidery from one of her daughters who had in turn learnt from a neighbour. Before joining SEWA, she use to take work from contractors, and she experiences a marked increase in her profits after joining the former. Under the contractors, she barely managed to get 1000 rupees, but same amount of work when brought directly to her from export houses by SEWA fetches her upto Rs. 3000.
Ikbal Jahan has been taking embroidery work from SEWA for more than three years now. She feels that becoming a member of SEWA has changed her entire outlook. She has become more articulate, and unlike her own exclusion from the outside world in her childhood, she has begun to send her daughters where ever possible. It was a moment of immense pride for her when her daughter went all the way to Sundernagri to impart two days training in bangle making to the women.
Case 2
Name: Nuri
Age: 18
Place of residence: Rajiv Nagar
Nuri is an 18 year old girl who is the second amongst her siblings of four sisters and three brothers. Her mother is a housewife and her father manages to earn around 5000 rupees in a month.
Nuri has studied upto class 7, and has been associated with SEWA ever since the establishment of the embroidery centre in Rajiv Nagar in the year 2005. living in a community that is mainly inhabited by traditional embroidery workers, Nuri picked up this intricate skill from the people of her area in her childhood itself. Since SEWA centre was located very close to her house, she first went there out of curiosity, and immediately saw a promising opportunity for herself even though she was barely 15 at that time. She taught embroidery to her elder sister also, and now both of them take work of ari as well as hand embroidery from the centre and earn upto Rs. 3000 in a month.
Some time, when there is scarcity of work from the exporters, Nuri also takes work from the contractors. But she admits that working for 15 days for SEWA is equivalent to a month’s labour for the contractors. She sees SEWA as her extended family, and thoroughly enjoys the cultural celebrations which are organized by SEWA on occasions like Eid and Ramzaan, or the excursions in and outside Delhi. She particularly recalls a trip to Ajmer organized the previous year, and says that it was a first opportunity of its kind that allowed her to go outside Delhi for the first time.
Besides this, she is proud of the fact that she is able to contribute to the family income and thereby has earned the respect of her entire family. She wholeheartedly thanks SEWA and urges more girls like her to join and benefit from its various programmes.
Name: Ikbal Jahan
Age: 45
Place of residence: Rajiv Nagar
Ikbal Jahan hails from Rampur district of Utter Pradesh. She was the third daughter amongst five children. Her father owned some fields, and he also worked as a tailor wherein his income was supplemented by his wife who contributed in the task of stitching by working from home. Like most of the girls of her religion living in the rural areas, Ikbal Jahan was mainly confined to the four walls of the house and was not given any education.
Ikbal Jahan moved to Delhi after her marriage more than twenty years back. She now resides with her husband, her 6 children and wife of her eldest son. Both her husband and her eldest son are construction workers.
Ikbal Jahan is a member of one such family where most of the members have benefited from one or the other programme of SEWA. With the help of SEWA, her son was registered with the Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board, that has been formed by the Indian government to provide social and economic security benefits to these workers. One of her daughters and her daughter-in-law are associated with SEWA’s cooperative bank wherein they save a fixed amount regularly on a monthly basis. Further more, 2 of her daughters do ari work under SEWA and she herself does hand embroidery and manages to earn upto Rs. 3000. Besides this, her daughters have also undertaken training in cutting and tailoring and mehandi application from SEWA’s vocational training centre.
Ikbal Jahan is an eager learner and ambitious woman. She learnt the skill of embroidery from one of her daughters who had in turn learnt from a neighbour. Before joining SEWA, she use to take work from contractors, and she experiences a marked increase in her profits after joining the former. Under the contractors, she barely managed to get 1000 rupees, but same amount of work when brought directly to her from export houses by SEWA fetches her upto Rs. 3000.
Ikbal Jahan has been taking embroidery work from SEWA for more than three years now. She feels that becoming a member of SEWA has changed her entire outlook. She has become more articulate, and unlike her own exclusion from the outside world in her childhood, she has begun to send her daughters where ever possible. It was a moment of immense pride for her when her daughter went all the way to Sundernagri to impart two days training in bangle making to the women.
Case 2
Name: Nuri
Age: 18
Place of residence: Rajiv Nagar
Nuri is an 18 year old girl who is the second amongst her siblings of four sisters and three brothers. Her mother is a housewife and her father manages to earn around 5000 rupees in a month.
Nuri has studied upto class 7, and has been associated with SEWA ever since the establishment of the embroidery centre in Rajiv Nagar in the year 2005. living in a community that is mainly inhabited by traditional embroidery workers, Nuri picked up this intricate skill from the people of her area in her childhood itself. Since SEWA centre was located very close to her house, she first went there out of curiosity, and immediately saw a promising opportunity for herself even though she was barely 15 at that time. She taught embroidery to her elder sister also, and now both of them take work of ari as well as hand embroidery from the centre and earn upto Rs. 3000 in a month.
Some time, when there is scarcity of work from the exporters, Nuri also takes work from the contractors. But she admits that working for 15 days for SEWA is equivalent to a month’s labour for the contractors. She sees SEWA as her extended family, and thoroughly enjoys the cultural celebrations which are organized by SEWA on occasions like Eid and Ramzaan, or the excursions in and outside Delhi. She particularly recalls a trip to Ajmer organized the previous year, and says that it was a first opportunity of its kind that allowed her to go outside Delhi for the first time.
Besides this, she is proud of the fact that she is able to contribute to the family income and thereby has earned the respect of her entire family. She wholeheartedly thanks SEWA and urges more girls like her to join and benefit from its various programmes.
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