The woman, who is a mother, a sister, a daughter, a wife, a friend is mentally as strong as any male. She is as capable as any man of exercising will, controlling desires and taking decisions and contributing to the family income. .She has adequate abilities to be financially self reliant. Women lack the proper training, as opportunities are not available for them to learn a skill to contribute to the family income. Restriction on mobility, complete child care responsibility, vulnerability to abuse, low access to Information and confinement to largely manual untrained tasks leads to women's poor access to income.
Prodigee Foundation works towards development of women, by training them to be self reliant, through vocational skills enabling her to facilitate to achieve meaningful income levels by initiating micro enterprises. The foundation works towards nurturing their skills and developing the same through training sessions and transforming the skills learning into an entrepreneurial activity and contributing to the house hold.
Take the case of an auto rickshaw driver in Mumbai. His daily income stands at Rs.300 per day. Upon working for 26 days he earns Rs.7800 per month. If his expense for fuel and maintenance is deducted at Rs.3000 per month, he is left with Rs.4800 to pay for rent, children’s education, food for the family, medical expenses, and any investment he has to make. Can he manage the home with this meagre income?
The family thus can make their ends meet only when the spouse also earns. But she is unskilled, has low self esteem and lacks exposure in external exigencies.
Prodigee Foundation bridges the gap in her skill needs by training her in vocational skills and apropos the training ensures that she becomes an entrepreneur or is able to be placed in a job.
When she is trained in Beauty treatment, she can treat 5 clients per month in her area and easily earn Rs.2500 per month. This will be almost 50% of her husband’s earning. She need not travel much as the clients may be developed in the neighbourhood, leaving her time to manage her home too. In addition, the Foundation strives to bring about a change in the women through improving her communication skills in areas of Literacy Development through learning to Read and Write in vernacular, Train the woman to speak, write and read in English enabling her to effectively communicate with external exigencies, Infuse self confidence through cues and internal realization of self worth.