Last fall, twenty young women who attended our URI sponsored sewing school in Pakistan completed more than a year of instruction and received course completion certificates.Each graduate also received a sewing machine and sewing supplies to help them get started in their own sewing business.
The female literacy rate in Pakistan is only 45%, that is 24% less than for male Pakistanis.
Poor and uneducated, many young females are forced to work as servants and housekeepers. Often they are paid low wages and some are even abused physically or sexually by their employers.
If these young women are to have hope for a more promising or brighter future, they must become educated and learn a useful trade.
A highly skilled, professional tailor taught these graduates tailoring . Not all will them will excel in their new profession, but URI believes in them and we wanted to give each girl an opportunity to gain financial independence so they could help financially sustain their families.
With your help, we hope to begin another sewing school in another location in Pakistan in 2019.
A little investment from us can transform lives in Pakistan!
UNITED RESPONSE INTERNATIONAL
YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES OF CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES
