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As part of reaching out to the peripheries Jyoty Marg Trust has initiated many charitable and educational programs with the limited resources that we have in the mission.
Skill Training Programs: Three of our centres have taken the initiative to start tailoring training for the village women. It is a three month intensive tailoring course in which the basic of cutting and stitching will be taught. It is aimed to make the poor self-sufficient. Once they complete the course, with the certificate of our registered Trust they can approach the Odisha Government for the tailoring machine and initial fund for starting up the business.
Non Formal Education Programs: As many of our villages are deep inside the forest, many of the children are deprived of basic education. So we have started non formal education programs in 55 villages of our Mission Centres. Around 1200 children are supported with these programs.
Santhome Education Scholarship: Selected children from the Non Formal Education Programs are sent for better and formal education in the convent schools with hostel facilities. We have 170 such students undergoing their studies in deferent catholic schools of sisters. Other than that we have sent few youth for skill training courses and placed them for better jobs inside and outside Odisha.
Awareness Programs: For a better and bright future of the poor and needy villagers of our missionaries were giving awareness programs on deferent topics like self-sufficiency, health and hygiene, education, savings etc. Six such programs were conducted in these months