Reaching Out of School Children Project – Phase II
Implemented by: Self Development Initiative (SDI)
Specialized Technical Agency : Save the Children in Bangladesh

Pre-training status:

Tumpa is the youngest of the six children of Zafar Alam and Hajera Khatun. As her father is not able to earn due to aging, the whole family depends on the small income of her mother. The two elder brothers got married and separated long time ago. Even though she was the youngest member of the family but due to financial constraints she had to keep herself away from hobbies and desires. Continuing to study also became very difficult for her. She said, “I wanted to buy clothes of different designs and colors, but I could not because It was difficult to meet my own expenses then. Later, one day I heard about ROSC’s Pre-vocational Training program through SDI’s miking. There I got the opportunity to train myself in Industrial Sewing Machine Operation and Tailoring”.

Post-training status:

I learned to work for 3 months in Industrial Sewing Machine Operation and Tailoring. Hard and complex tasks were well taught by our madam, with care. She wouldn’t teach another thing as long as we hadn’t learned one task well. After finishing the training program, I bought a sewing machine with the money received from the course and made some clothes for myself and the children of my area, which were liked by people. Since then, many people from my neighborhood came and asked me to make clothes for them. As a result now, I have some income of my own. Besides, I can also provide some assistance to my family. I can also buy something for my nieces and nephews which is a great pleasure for me. My parents are very happy.

Future plans:

I also want to teach Industrial Sewing Machine Operation and Tailoring to those who want to learn it in my area exactly the way I learned the work through ROSC-II project. At the same time, I would like to raise a small amount of capital and set up a tailoring shop of my own. Finally, I hope the government will come up with such projects in the future too, Insha’Allah.

N.B: The picture has been blurred at the request of the beneficiary.