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

What began as a shelter for battered women in 1978 is now, thanks to Club-to-Club donations and an outside grant, a major facility with two buildings that house a women's shelter, a home for elderly women, a job and literacy training program, and a full elementary school for children of the Faridibad slums.

• 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 helps 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 in 2005 will provide free cancer screenings for all of the women involved in the project and will finance cancer treatment for up to four patients diagnosed with the disease.

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