Tailoring school · 24 machines · Indore
Twenty-four machines in one rented hall in Chhawni, two batches a day, a six-month course from hemming to full salwar sets — free to every woman enrolled. When a woman graduates, a machine goes home with her, because a certificate without a machine is a memory. This page costs all of it openly.
The enrolment book and the machine ledger are on the office table: who is in which batch, which machines went home with which graduates. Both change monthly, and both are the only numbers this page speaks in.
For Donors who want a machine to leave with a graduate · Master tailors with a spare weekday morning · Companies whose CSR wants a stitching room, not a stage
These four are promises this page makes on your behalf. Keep them or change them — they are not decoration.
Ways to give or join
Every figure is this year's actual cost at Indore rates: a sturdy straight-stitch machine at showroom price, cloth and thread by the bale, the trainer's honest monthly honorarium, the hall's rent split across forty-eight seats. Nothing is rounded up to look generous, and when a supplier's rate changes, the card changes.
One-time
A new straight-stitch machine with cover and oil can, bought at the showroom rate on the card, entered by serial number, and handed to a graduating woman with her certificate.
Monthly
Her share of the hall rent, the trainer's honorarium, machine servicing and electricity — the unglamorous sum a free course actually runs on.
Monthly
Practice cloth by the bale, thread, needles, chalk, bobbins — what forty-eight learning hands go through in a month. Bought wholesale at Cloth Market rates.
Volunteer
You have cut ladies' suits for twenty years; our trainer has two hundred questions a week she could share. One fixed morning a week, teaching cutting on the big table.
In kind
A sound machine your family no longer uses, or surplus cloth from your shop — brought to the hall, tested or measured there, entered in the ledger while you watch.
Pick the way you want to help and it lands in the form below. Picking another replaces it — this page records one intention at a time, not a basket. NO MONEY MOVES ON THIS PAGE: nothing is charged, deducted or collected here, and how giving actually happens is written under the form.
On the ground
No staged gratitude and no poverty framing. These frames are placeholders for your own hall at work — hands at machines, the cutting table mid-lesson, the ledger being kept. Faces only with each woman's consent.
How giving actually happens
Paste the trust's bank account name, number and IFSC here, and the UPI ID if you use one — exactly as the bank has them. State plainly that no one collects fees or cash from the women who study here.
Words you have permission to print
A graduate on what the machine changed, in her own words, with her name — collected with written permission, and only if she wants her story public.
Your honest record
Last quarter's numbers, dated: women enrolled, women completing, machines handed over by ledger count, money in and what it bought. The audited annual figures go here exactly as the auditor wrote them.
The frames above are placeholder photographs of the kind of work this page is about — not this organisation's own record, and never a person whose face buys sympathy. The slots below are deliberately blank: this is a template, and an invented beneficiary count, an invented donor or an invented 80G number would be a lie on a page asking people to give — and inventing the tax registration is an offence. Fill each slot with something real and checkable, then delete this line.
How it works
Three steps, and money moves only to the trust's account, only against a receipt.
The form records what you picked and how to reach you. Nothing is charged here — this page cannot take money, by design.
Within the week, with the account details and receipt mechanics — or, for a machine pledge, the showroom quotation so you can see the exact model and price before you give.
The quarterly sheet lists enrolments, completions and machines handed over. Visit any working morning; the batches are used to visitors who sit quietly and let the needles win.
Before you give
Because a production unit makes the school the employer, and this school's whole point is the opposite: the skill and the machine both leave with her. Some graduates stitch from home, some join units, some sew only for their families — all three are success, and none of them is ours to claim.
The quarterly sheet says who enrolled and who completed, and the ledger says how many machines went home — those numbers a visitor can check against paper. A big lifetime total would be easy to print and impossible for you to verify, so we do not print one.
No, and be wary of any training charity that does. We teach to a standard a working tailor respects, hand over a machine, and share the market-day stall contacts we have. Order books are built by the women themselves, and their earnings are their business — literally.
Only if the trust's 80G cell at the top of this page carries a current number, checkable on the income-tax portal. The office shares the certificate itself before any transfer; if the cell is empty, ask before assuming.
You can sponsor a seat or a graduation machine, and the office will tell you when your machine is handed over. What we do not do is give donors a woman's name, circumstances or photograph as a return on money — the course is free, but it is not a subscription to someone's life.
The one thing this page asks
One form, one intention. The office replies within the week — nothing is charged or collected here.
You want to help with
Nothing yet — pick a way to give above, or say it in the form.
Three required fields: a name, a way to reply, a channel. Deliberately absent: any amount field (the cards carry the honest costs), any PAN (that belongs with the 80G receipt at donation time, not in a web form), and any payment field at all — this page records intentions and takes nothing. Also absent on purpose: any field asking about the women who study here; they are students, not content.
Your details go to the trust's office for this one reply and are not added to any appeal list. Never sold, no fundraiser calls.