Asha Bhavan Centre is now trying to sell the products made by the members of the Asha Bhavan family. Asha Bhavan rightly recognizes the need for Vocational Training to rehabilitate the children in the mainstream of the society. They trained to make handmade paper products and embroidered clothes after determining the market needs.
Hand made Paper products:
Hand made paper products a craftwork by recycling the various waste materials. The products are eco friendly keeping the environment clean and specially designed to meet the taste of the clients. The aesthetics of those products are unparallel. There are lot of variations in the paper quality, starting from the newspaper to art paper and cracked paper. The quality is the best according to the market standard. There are variations in the products also. Asha Bhavan has developed its own exclusive product ranges that categorized as below:
Office Stationeries including Files, Folders, Envelope, Letter head, Pen stand and Visiting cards.
Gift items including Flower vase, Lamp Shades, Decorative masks, Ladies purse, Photo stand, Albums, Jewelry Boxes, Greeting cards etc.
Bags of different types varying in the quality of the paper as well as in the size and shape.
Embroidered Products:
ABC is providing embroidery training to the inmates and to those who are been discharged from ABC, trying to rehabilitate them in the mainstream of the society. Their creative streaks are been used in making Table Cloth, Bed Sheet, Pillow Covers, Handkerchiefs and Side Bags. The products are as per market needs and are been marketed to make them self-dependent.
Done by ABC inmates and also those who discharge from ABC doing at their family
Products: Tablecloth, Bed Sheet, Pillow Cover, Handkerchiefs (Ladies/Gents), Side Bags.
Prataya Deep:
Old wine in a new bottle concept is bring here with full aware about the major draw backs of the vocational training that few persons are to be engaged in the training workshop with stipend or without stipend to complete a course for the schedule, say three months, six months or over the year but nobody should be under follow up programme. As a result the participants those who attained the said programme were totally forgot about their training and go back to their earlier business; and the objectives of training were all in vain.
So we have placed the concept, which includes a production unit; would be run by the trained staff of the vocational unit and in extend of that there would be another team to support them on marketing research and marketing of products.
Already we are running two units under Vocational Training and in the month of January of 2009 we have started one more unit named as Prataya Deep where deaf and dumb, mentally retarded and physically challenged children make candles and sell in the market. It is an initiative to make challenged children self independent in future. There is no such risk in making candles because wax melts at 40 C. So if it falls in our hand then we do not face such danger. The project started with four children and we hope that in future they will become self-dependent and do the work professionally. At present three more children are undergoing this training. We hope that in future the unit will increase and we will be able to make more and more products to sell in the market.
