The word ‘Women Empowerment’ itself implies that women are not powerful enough – they need to be empowered. This painful truth has been in existence for a long time now. It is in the recent years that noticeable work started beginning to lift the women out of the abyss of insignificance and powerlessness. We too at SWOTT have started a campaign related to empowering women. We have initiated various programs and forum for the betterment of women, so that they could live their life independently and successfully.
We as a team visited Sri Lankan Refugee camp, and met women for “empowering woman” event, wherein lecture was given on ways of self-employment. Secondly, in another event, especially targeting widow and orphans women, we provided a session on making household items and tailoring. So that they could make household items and sell them independently (mark of self-employment) and stitching machine was also supplied to the needy women who learnt about tailoring during their sessions. In addition, SWOTT have conducted several programs on women safety guidance, pension, awareness on governmental schemes, etc.
Our journey began with a 17-year selfless commitment to the community from a social
activist who is also the founder of the Social Work Team Trust (SWOTT).