"Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time." - Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Empowering Young Girls & Women Through Education & Skill-Based Training

Project Shiksha, spearheaded by the Sheisdevi Foundation, is committed to transforming the lives of girls and women in India through education — both in the classroom and beyond it. The initiative sponsors the educational journey of bright young girls from primary school through college, while also equipping women with real, income-generating skills through vocational training, mentorship, and community support. Its current project, in partnership with JPM Society, supports a cluster of banana fibre artisans in Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh, in acquiring and learning to operate a mobile banana fibre extraction machine — training the women in fibre extraction, grading, drying, and processing so the cluster can produce its own raw material instead of depending on costly outside vendors, whose prices swing between Rs. 150 and 250 per kg for the 700–1,000 kg of fibre the cluster needs every month. This is what "shiksha" means in practice: not just literacy, but the practical, technical know-how that lets a woman build and control her own livelihood — turning banana waste into a stable, self-reliant enterprise for one life, one skill, and one cluster at a time.