Sambhali in the beginning of 2013

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2013!!

Some January & February 2013 News and what we have been up to at Sambhali Trust:

Friends of Sambhali:

 Our generous friends Natalie and Rahel from Switzerland helped two girls Guddi and Suman of the Sambhali Setrawa Empowerment center by gifting two sewing machines. Dhau devi of group no-8, Sambhali Sheerni SHG project lost her husband, our Swiss friends helped her open a grocerry store.

 They connected six of the participants of Sambhali Jodhpur Empowerment Center with Livelihood program by donating sewing machines to them to work from home.

Publicity:

Invitation by the Times of India, we attended Swabhiman-raise your voice (a workshop on the safety and security of our city's woman) in Jodhpur.
The participants of Sambhali Literacy project and Sambhali Jodhpur empowerment center went to Jaipur to perform theater. There were two different occasions they displayed theater. We were there by the invitation by the Department of women and child development.

Projects & Students:

Please allow us to introduce yourselves to our new collection available at the Durag Niwas Guest House, Jodhpur, India.
The basic idea for the students shop came up at a meeting in December 2012. We discussed that quite a lot of the Sambhali Jodhpur Empowerment Project students had already been on a very high level in sewing and doing embroideries and the nice little embroideries etc that they had already done just disappeared in their files. So why not turn the small room at the entrance of the guesthouse into a little store called "Stories & Dreams" Sambhali students shop. You can see the first results on the photos!

People out there we try to help:

The other day we received a phone call from a young woman from the train station's waiting room. She said she has come to Jodhpur and has been alone and knew nobody. She found Sambhali Trust's address on the search engine. She came to take justice from a man who broke her trust and betrayed her after staying in relationship for two years and now have agreed to his parents for an arranged marriage. Our heart goes out for her. We think she is a wonderful person. We helped her by counseling and arranging her two days table talk with the family of the man. It took us 18 hours of counseling in 48 hours. It was successful. A lawyer friend said, what legal facilities would have done in months you managed in two days.
We also arranged to go with her to drop her home safe.
God bless her...!!

We need your help to facilitate this family of four children and a single widowed mother Kamla nat. A dalit woman begging on the streets of Delhi and we have been approached by her well wishers to rehabilitate her back in her community and family in a slum of Jodhpur. Without your help this would not be possible. We need a simple room with bathroom, schooling for the four children, setting up of a little shop selling grocery items, giving some start-up money for six months, facilitating the house with basic amenities and food. The budget is about 1800USD which is about 1 lakh. Help us help this family have a second chance in life...

On 8th of February, we visited shelter for boys in Gangani village by an organization funded by our partner organization called SAMPARC and we were invited at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Jodhpur for Discussing Women Empowerment and gender equality.

NEW PROJECT:

 Dear Friends of Sambhali, we are very proud to announce our newest project (Brothers for sisters) in a very poor area of Jodhpur. We have very overwhelming response from the community. We had 110 women and girls approach us for participation but unfortunately we can only accept 30 applicants.

Thanks for your support!