Varsha will soon be economically self-sufficient

Fourteen-year-old Varsha is considered lucky among her peers because her parents allow her to attend school. Varsha has two brothers and two sisters, all of whom are still living at home with Varsha and her parents in a small tin roof shack in the slums. Thankfully, Varsha’s parents believe in education, and all of her siblings are studying, while Varsha has just started the 10th standard. Varsha’s parents both sell cloth material on the road side, earning about 3,500 rupees per month ($75), and Varsha sees their daily struggle to keep food on the table for all of their children. Although Varsha’s parents have already started talking about arranging her marriage, as she will be finishing up high school (10th standard) this year, Varsha has vowed not to get married yet.

Instead, she has joined the AIC Basic Tailoring class, which provides girls and women from the slums with an opportunity to learn the fundamentals of tailoring so that they can earn supplemental income, or maybe even start their own small businesses. Varsha is a hardworking student, so she is able to balance her 10th standard studies with her daily tailoring class, and she loves spending time with her friends at the class. She has already picked up many valuable skills, and intends to start taking on small tailoring jobs to earn extra income to pay for her higher education.

Your donation, Billy, has enabled AIC to offer the Basic Tailoring Course to Varsha free of cost. Thank you for helping make her economically self-sufficient.