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FAITH
- INDIA ART AND CRAFTS CENTRE
BASELINE INFORMATION
A collaborative and joint effort by FAITH-INDIA
training and rehabilitation services division could identify and
observe about three hundred vocations which are appropriate and
suitable for persons belonging to different disability group up
to moderate level including completely blind persons. These vocations
include those impartable on single category disability basis and
those impartable on multi category disability basis with different
inter disability combinations. Training in production of handicraft
has been found as one of the best among such vocations. Therefore
a separate training programme for production of handicraft items
was set up by FAITH-INDIA experimentally in the year 1998-99 and
continued to function during the report year also.
DURATION AND FACULTY
Duration of Handicraft production training has
been fixed as six months, after making careful observations of process
involved. However in case of persons with disabilities training
process involved longer duration and it has taken up to one year.
Being a work requiring full skill, dexterity of hand, artistic sense
and sensitivity to consumer aesthetics and utility, one year work
experience needed to be added as an integral component to the course
in the attached demonstration production shop.
The faculty is drawn from amongst skilled and experienced master
craftsmen and artisans from the list prepared by the office of Handicraft
Development commissioner. A supervisor and two skilled assistant
cum trainers are manning the faculty requirements of production
cum training centre.
LINKAGE WITH OTHER PROJECTS OF FAITH - INDIA
Academic part of the training is administered
by the institute of advanced training for the disabled and vocational
training programme under FAITH - INDIA crisis intervention services
projects for the Handicapped. The stipend to trainees with disabilities
is covered under the vocational training , FAITH - INDIA Crisis
Intervention Services . This project has developed linkages with
Vadavukode CD block and from Consumer Channels.
PRODUCTS
Our handicraft production training centre did
not only impart just training but also is making hard efforts to
design and develop the appropriate handicraft products. By now a
range of 48 products have already been identified, designed ,developed
and trail produced. A variety of woods, coconut shells and fibres
are used as base material for production.
WORKSHOP
Necessary technical infrastructure with machines
equipments and tools have been set up with a small assistance from
district administration Ernakulam and using funds raised by the
organization.
CONCLUSION
With proper market linkage and management
a network of these production units are planned to set up for the
disabled in different rural areas around, which can be a good income
generating programme to them as well as an economic empowerment
measure.
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