Objectives :

• Allowing women from the village of Seliamedu and the surrounding villages, to have access to professional training 8 months a year (alternatively with the agricultural works).
  
• Competence raising in sewing.
• Increase of revenues of the family.
  
• Introduction to sanitary and social education.
  

Means :

• Training of an Indian teacher financed by PDM.
  
• Acquisition of 13 sewing machines.
  
• A large workshop specifically dedicated to sewing.
  

Results :

Since 2002, 150 women have acquired a diploma.
This allowed the following :

• Recrutement in several production workshops from the surroundings.
  
• Making of clothes for themselves and their families at home.
  
• Sale of some of the products: clothes, medical blouses, medical linen, etc.
• Use of part of the profits from the production to cover the running costs of the sewing institute (acquisition of materials).