AIWEFA successfully completed a joint venture project with the Sat Krishna Trust in 2002. AIWEFA provided the expertise and facilitated the teaching in a programme for empowerment of women in village Narsinghpur, Gurgaon. The project involved capacity building through education in legal awareness, health and nutrition and included elements of income generation. The women were taught to knit mufflers and make blanket patches. Fifteen sewing machines were installed for the women to learn sewing under the guidance of a specialist teacher who visited the village twice a week. Many crafts were also taught to the participants.

Computer Literacy in Schools

AIWEFA’s project – “Computers For Schools” was launched by Smt. Sheila Dikshit, Hon’ble Chief Minister of Delhi on Women’s Day i.e. 8th March, 2002. The project aimed at creating computer awareness and imparting basic computer training to Government MCD /NDMC Primary Schools. Between 2002-2005 AIWEFA imparted basic computer awareness to nearly 1500 primary school children.

The “Computers for Schools” project was quite successful in creating computer awareness in 10-12 year old, young minds, introducing them to the world of Information Technology.