Ruksar is committed to helping her family

Thank you for ensuring that Ruksar is able to undergo a tailoring course which will make her financially independent.

Ruksar is a 14-year old girl who has lived with her grandmother since she was a small child.  Her father, mother and three siblings live in a village outside of the city and her father, who used to be a tempo (vehicle) driver, is now unemployed. Although Chandni had started the 8th grade this year in school, her father recently forced her to drop out of school so that she could earn money to help her family out.

Ruksar’s grandmother is also quite weak and in poor health, which has added to the pressure on Ruksar to leave school and find a job. To develop her skill set, Ruksar joined the AIC Basic Tailoring course. Every day, she and a dozen other women attend the class and learn the fundamentals of basic tailoring in the hopes of one day being able to support their families and themselves.

Ruksar is a bright and talented tailoring student, and she is committed to helping her family by learning to sew. Through the class, she and the other women are also able to eat lunch at the AIC Health and Community Outreach Centre before class begins, and stay for an extra hour of literacy teaching after the tailoring component of the class ends. Although most of the women are illiterate and are just learning to read and write, Chandni is using the time to study independently so that she does not fall behind in her schoolwork. The AIC teacher has encouraged her to enroll in a distance learning program so that she is able to complete her education while also helping her family, and Chandni is excited about this idea.

Thank you so much, Shreeya, Dawn, and Haris (4 months), for coming together to provide an entire six month tailoring course to Ruksar, thereby allowing her to learn a marketable skill!