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Sneha finished her tailoring course last week — she has three orders already.

Women holding handmade flowers at the end of a craft and livelihood workshop in Vadagaon Budruk, Pune

Programme 01 of 04

Women's Empowerment

A woman with a skill, a bank account and a group behind her does not need to be rescued.

20+

Skill courses running

SHG

Groups formed & mentored

Pune

Wards & villages served

Krantijyot Mahila Pratishthan works with women across Pune's wadis, chawls and peri-urban villages — first through self-help groups, then through leadership, financial and legal literacy, and finally through enterprise. The order matters: confidence and paperwork come before capital.

Large group of women holding the artificial flowers they made during the workshop
End of the artificial flower-making workshop — every participant leaves with a saleable sample

Alongside this runs our vocational wing. Every course is chosen because women in the neighbourhood asked for it and because it can realistically be turned into monthly earnings from home or from a small shop.

Trainer demonstrating flower making to women seated on the floor of the training hall
Demonstration first, then everyone works along — Dangat Patil Nagar centre

Empowerment programmes

  • Women leadership development
  • Self-Help Group (SHG) formation
  • Financial literacy programmes
  • Entrepreneurship development
  • Legal awareness sessions
  • Digital literacy training
  • Personality development
  • Career guidance
  • Confidence building workshops
Women seated in a circle assembling flowers with a glue gun and craft tools

Skill development courses

  • Tailoring & fashion designing
  • Navari saree draping workshop
  • Rakhi making workshop
  • Mehendi classes
  • Artificial jewellery making
  • Handicraft workshops
  • Candle making
  • Soap making
  • Agarbatti making
  • Paper bag making
  • Fabric painting
  • Embroidery classes
  • Beauty parlour training
  • Spoken English classes
  • Computer literacy courses
  • Digital marketing basics
  • Mobile repairing awareness
  • Home-based business training
  • Food processing & bakery workshops
  • Soft skills development
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On film

Inside a flower-making and enterprise workshop

A few minutes from the training hall — demonstration, practice and the first samples made.

In the training hall

Skills, taught in the room next door

Photographs from flower-making, tailoring, business development and digital literacy batches at our Vadagaon Budruk centre in Pune.

Large group of women holding the artificial flowers they made during the workshop
End of the artificial flower-making workshop — every participant leaves with a saleable sample
Trainer demonstrating flower making to women seated on the floor of the training hall
Demonstration first, then everyone works along — Dangat Patil Nagar centre
Women seated in a circle assembling flowers with a glue gun and craft tools
Working in circles so the slower learners are never left behind
Women seated in the tailoring hall during a session, sewing machines along the walls
Tailoring hall, Vadagaon Budruk — the same room runs skill sessions through the week
Women at desktop computers during a digital literacy class
Computer literacy batch — basics of the desktop, files and design tools
Digital literacy class in progress at the Pune centre, geotagged Vadagaon Budruk
54/2/a, Dangat Patil Nagar, Vadagaon Budruk, Pune — computer training in session
Set of photographs from a digital literacy session with the trainer and participants
Trainers and participants across a full digital literacy session
Wide group photograph of workshop participants with their finished flowers
Workshop supported under CSR — group record at the close of the day
Workshop participants posing with handmade flowers beside sewing machines
Craft and tailoring wings share the same hall and the same women
Women seated on the floor making flowers beneath a business development training banner
Business development training — Udyogini business school module for the batch
Trainer standing at the front of a full hall of seated women
A full hall — the batch listens through the method before touching material
View from the back of the hall of women attending a training session
From the back of the room: forty-odd women, one afternoon, one skill
Women working on flowers in a wide circle in the tailoring hall
Material laid out on the floor — glue guns, tape and pipe cleaners shared around
Long row of women assembling flowers beside sewing machine tables
Rows form along the sewing machines when the batch runs large
Close view of women working with a glue gun and yellow flower petals
The finishing step — petals set with a glue gun, one flower at a time
Group of women smiling while holding the yellow flowers they have just made
First finished flower of the day
Training session held under the CSR initiative of IndianOil FY 2025-26
Held under the CSR initiative of IndianOil, FY 2025–26
Poster announcing open admissions for Nrutyangan Kathak Academy with Krantijyot Mahila Pratishthan
Nrutyangan Kathak Academy (est. 1983) — admissions open at our Vadgaon Khurd centre; branches in Dhayari, Vadgaon, Ambegaon, Wonder City and Dhankawadi
Speaker addressing hundreds of schoolgirls seated in a school hall
Confidence and health session with schoolgirls — the first step of the same pipeline
Schoolgirl receiving a sanitary napkin pack from women organisers
Sanitary napkin distribution alongside the awareness talk
Women receiving free sanitary napkin kits at a village camp
Free pad kits handed over to women at a Gram Panchayat camp
Women gathered at a mahila niwas kaksh tent collecting sanitary napkin kits
Mahila niwas kaksh — a women-only counter at the village camp
Sanitary napkin packs handed to a schoolgirl inside a primary classroom
Distribution inside a Zilla Parishad primary classroom
Schoolgirls receiving sanitary napkin packs at a school programme
School programme with the Maharashtra State Women's Commission
Village awareness session with women seated on the floor and officials on the dais
Women's awareness session — a full classroom, officials on the dais
Group photograph of women and officials outside a Zilla Parishad school in Haveli, Pune
Anganwadi sevikas, teachers and our team after a school visit in Haveli
Group of women in sarees talking during a field visit
Field visit — the conversation that decides the next batch

Other programmes

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Health & Wellness

Camps, screenings and the awareness that keeps women out of them.

03

Sports & Fitness

Kabaddi, athletics and self-defence — for women and for youth.

04

Education & Child Development

School kits, counselling and life skills for the next generation.