Yesterday, 14 girls and women from Sarlahi District, south Nepal, completed their six months’ training in basic tailoring, organised by Lily’s Leaves. All graduates will leave the course with their own sewing machine as a gift and we will support them with start-up grants and loans towards setting up in business, if they so wish.

One of our deaf girls from the Lily’s Leaves centre in Kathmandu, Muskan, went to Sarlahi to distribute certificates and congratulate them. Muskan was one of our previous trainees who is now on the staff of the Lily’s Leaves production centre, where she specialises in making silver jewellery.

This course was funded through our Big Give fundraising in the 2023 Christmas Challenge and we are already collecting pledges towards this year’s appeal. Please let me know if you would like to help us out with an early pledge.