 An apprentice learning the weaving trade at the Canning centre. Centres at Canning and Tamuldah
Impoverished young people and former patients are offered training at the Calcutta Rescue spinning and weaving workshops situated around 50 km outside town. The young apprentices are given bed and board.
They learn how to make clothes for the most destitute patients as well as the spun fabrics that are sold at market; other articles make their way over to the West where they are sold by the different support groups in Europe. The objective is to make these young people financially independent and to give them a chance to enter the job market.
A group of 50 young people is formed every 9 months. The standards are set high so that they become good craftsmen. In addition to their wages they get healthcare, clothing and are ably assisted in their quest for work once they have passed their exam.
Other small training programmes are offered to pupils leaving school or to former patients such as taxi driving, becoming office workers, dressmakers or mobile phone repairers. These small jobs can make all the difference and can integrate a person coming from a poor background into Indian society.
 Spinning. |
