Bag Making training and enterpreurnership Establishment

COMMIT Nepal had organized 6 months bag making training for 4 vulnerable Badi Girls in 2018. They have completed 6 months training successfully. Now, they are able to handle the machine properly, they can cut materials as per design, sewing bag and making different types of bags. As there sharing, they are encouraged and happy to be involving in bag making training. As per our planning and strategy to develop bag making enterpreurnership that COMMIT Nepal has established Bag factory named Karuna Bag factory and just registered in local Government as governmental rule and regulation of local Government. Now, this Karuna Bag factory is legally established as bag making enterpreurnership. Now, they produce different types of school/college bags and ladies bags. Similarly, COMIT Nepal is trying to mange local fund for required raw and sewing materials to continue produce and selling the bags for its continue work and sustainability with their self reliance.

Beneficiary Badi girls are working in the bag factory.

Sewing and cutting Training

Five14 with Mission team visited and distributed the water filter on last October 2016. When they visited our beneficiary of GFG in Badi community, they met and talked a Badi girl named Sudha Nepali (Badi) who was very vulnerable and living in difficult situation. She shared her interest to take sewing and cutting training with team. Then they talked with five14 team and decided to support her for 6 months training. She has taken and completed sewing and cutting training by the support of Five14. She got sewing machine, sewing set, clothes and monthly training fee from Five14 through COMMIT Nepal. As her sharing, she is happy and makes different types of ladies suits and dresses. When we meet her, she shares about her future planning to establish the tailoring shop in the local market to be self reliance in her community. She also requested us for praying about her plan. We have also felt if we support her to establish tailoring shop, she will be self dependent and it would be a model work among the Badi community.

                   Beneficiary Badi girl is making clothes for client

Follow up the Tailoring shop and Bag making Enterpreurnership

4 Badi girls had taken sewing and cutting training then opened the tailoring shop in 2017 by the support of COM Switzerland. They have been holding the tailoring shop in local market and doing well in the shop. It showed that they were becoming self reliance through by this sewing and cutting profession but unfortunately, Lock down was stated on 24th March then closed the tailoring shop. Now we have encouraged them to restart the tailoring shop and they are thinking to reopen the tailoring shop.
Similarly, COMMIT Nepal organized 6 months bag making training for 6 vulnerable Badi Girls in 2018 then they had established bag making enterpreurnership as Bag factory. It was been registered the bag making factory named Karuna Bag Factory. 4 vulnerable Badi girls have been working in the bag factory until March 23rd 2020. They made different type of bag and sold in local Market and getting income but unfortunately Lock down was started because of COVID-19 global crisis then closed the enterpreurnership. Beneficiary girls are in their home and some of them are their relative’s home. We are encouraging them to work though raw materials are scarcity in the market. They are thinking to reopen the Bag making Enterpreurnership.

 Beneficiary girls of Bag making Enterpreurnership              Beneficiary of tailoring shop

Goats support
As our Planning, we provided 2 goats including 1 male and 1 female each beneficiary in the first quarter. Then we have provided 1 female goat for each beneficiary girl in every quarter. Similarly In total we have provide 5 goats including 4 female and 1 male for each girls during reporting period. Now, they have 6 to 9 goats whether we supported 5 goats each beneficiary. 2-4 baby goats were born from our supported goat. Almost goats are pregnant. It shows that it might be big herd in each beneficiary girl soon.

                                        Beneficiary women have goats and growing their flocks

Goat Shelter
The GFG project has felt to make goat shelter for each beneficiary girl before supporting goats. Therefore, we made 6 goats for our 6 beneficiaries. A goat shelter was already built by Colorado USA YWAM team on last February 2016 before launching the Project. In First quarter, we made 5 goats and handed over to our each beneficiary girl. When we gave the shelter, they were very happy and encouraged to raising goat properly because they might have access to keep their goats in the well built shelter and also felling safe in the shelter.

      This goad was built by Colorado USA group                                         This was built by FIVE14 support

Goat Keeping Training
During Reporting period, we held a 3 days goat raising training and 2 days refresher training for beneficiary women, girls with Volunteers in the coordination with local governmental vetenary office. A vetenary technician facilitator came from that office and taught them about different types of topics such as goat’s species, parasite prevention and control, sign and symptoms of local and seasonal diseases and treatment, facilities for treatment provided by Government different types of grasses and nutritional food for goat, Goat shelter’s hygiene sanitation, domestic food making process and Immunization. Discuss and conversation method was applied in the training. As their sharing, they have learnt more about goat rising skills and committed to implement whatever they learnt in the both training.

               Goat raising training’s participants with their girls and volunteers