The "Women Empowering Program Kirtipur (WEP)"
Support of deprived women by qualified jobs

Concept:

Behind the name "Women Empowering Program" lies the establishment of a professional tailoring and textile factory. This project is tailor-made for a total of 30 jobs for disadvantaged women who have no income but whose families are largely dependent on them financially. The jobs will not only be of a manual nature, as the professional operation naturally also includes administrative, sales and accounting tasks.

If possible, we will select 3 women from each of the 10 districts of Kirtipur (Wards). If necessary, men will also be selected for a few key technical positions (e.g. professionally trained master tailor/cutting master).

My helpers in the PEP Committee, under the leadership of Mr. Vijaya Kumar Maharjan, Nanda Kumari Maharjan and Lalita Maharjan (see picture on the right), gave the project a detailed plan of all the necessary investments for a modern tailoring shop - from the normal sewing machine to special machines, workshop furniture to tools (iron, scissors, measuring tapes, etc.). For a start-up of the company, all other costs such as rent, wages, basic stock of materials (fabrics, etc.) were compiled for the first 2 months of operation.

Nepalhilfe Kirtipur sees the project as an ideal way of helping disadvantaged women to help themselves and has therefore committed itself to promoting start-up financing for 2 months including all start-up investments.

The initiators are optimistic that the manufactory will be able to work largely independently and profitably after 2 months. In anticipation of the opening, my helpers asked the headmasters of all schools in Kirtipur to point out to their students that they could buy their school clothes cheaply from the factory and that the particularly disadvantaged families of the women working there would also be helped when they made a purchase.

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