Last year has been great for Nirmaan with the addition of Entrepreneur Development Center to the existing Vocational Training Center in the Livelihood Operations of Nirmaan Hyderabad.
Past year has all been about exposure, integration, collaboration, creative ideas and decisiveness. Our efforts are always directed towards the bigger goals that we try to achieve, but lets not ignore the small stories of change that we build up periodically throughout our journey.
Document detailing last years activities and achievements
A 3 month training program is carried out for women from financially constrained families. The selected women beneficiaries can choose to be trained in vocations like Tailoring, Embroidery, Bag Making and Mehendi.

Milestones
The training for first batch started on 23-May-2010.
The training for the 8th batch was started on December 3rd 2012 and is underway currently.
No. of Vocational Training batches conducted : 7
No. of women certified in either of the 4 vocations : 238

Entrepreneur Development Center for Micro Entrepreneur Development
Entrepreneur Development Centre is established for interns to work on delivering products/services demanded & utilized in market. The project focuses on incubating 20-25 interns over a period of 6-8 months with a variety of skill set. Nirmaan encourages the budding entrepreneurs by supporting them to have access to various facilities in the value chain.
Economic Impact achieved through EDC
Interns at EDC are able to earn on an average Rs 2100 per month and the team is trying to increase this amount up to RS 4000 per month. The interns started by earning Rs 800 per month and they have gradually increased their income levels up to the current amount. The interns are able to invest this extra income in studies of their children, health and other necessities.

Stories of Change
One of the interns from EDC, Kushbu after working for 2 months in EDC went ahead and has setup her own tailoring and ladies convince store. She is able to generate a profit of Rs 9000 per month from her venture.
The interns were able to successfully manufacture and deliver the go green cloth carry bags for the well known sweet outlet Almond House. The interns were also very excited as this task required them to attain and apply new skill of Screen printing.
Social Return on Investment:
The financial investment made on a woman is Rs.800 per month for three months. On the completion of the training, each woman is able to earn on an average Rs.1500 per month. Such families are now able to spend more on health and education of their children. The Social and Economic Impact created by this small amount of investment indicates that this project model is a potentially scalable and replicable model.
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