Quota Home for Abandoned and Destitute Women and Home for Poor Aged Women

This long-term Quota-run project has grown since its inception in 1978. What began as a shelter for battered women is now, thanks to Club-to-Club donations, a major facility housing a women's shelter, a home for elderly women, a job and literacy training program, and a full elementary school for local slum children.

• Literacy and Job Training

  The job skills program trains dozens of impoverished local women each year in knitting, sewing, embroidery, textile painting, and cosmetology to help them find jobs in local textile factories or to launch cottage industries—and to begin new, independent lives as productive and literate members of society.

• Dignity for Aged Women

  In addition to this extensive ongoing effort, the club now aims to help the elderly through a Home for Poor Aged Women. Old and infirm women are often cast aside among impoverished slum dwellers near the Quota Home. The club hopes to afford these women some dignity in their last years by providing them a nice place to stay, nourishing meals, and medical care.

Club-to-Club donations will pay for food, supplies, clothing, equipment, and transportation for the two facilities.

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