Sheriat

 Services we provide

• Training women in baking.
• Giving women opportunities to work in our baking project, baking rusks and biscuits to earn an income.
• Training women in needlework.
• Giving women opportunities to work in our needlework project, making children’s clothes, blankets and gift bags to earn an income.
• Training women in art and craft skills.
• Giving women opportunities to work in our arts and crafts projects, doing beadwork and knitting products earning an income.
• Doing waitressing training courses with women.
• Networking with restaurants to employ trained waitresses.
• Doing baby care training courses with women.
• Networking with individuals, crèches and schools to employ trained baby care workers.
• Doing hairdressing courses with women.
• Networking with hairdressing shops to employ trained hairdresser’s assistants.
•  In association with Pathways School, training women to become facilitators or care workers for disabled children.
• Networking with individuals and schools to give the women the opportunity to be employed as care workers.
• Networking with shops, other businesses and individuals to employ suitable women.
• Helping women to establish their own small businesses e.g. selling second hand clothing in the community.
• Training women in basic life skills e.g. financial planning, conflict management etc.
• Doing group and individual sessions with the women to guide them through emotional difficulties they might experience.
• Giving spiritual input in the women’s lives.
• Doing training in job searching related skills e.g. CV writing, interview skills etc.
• Helping and supporting the women with other services they might need e.g. getting their eyes tested, applying for bank accounts etc. 

 Needs

We cannot successfully run the project without the help of partners and donations. We always need:

• Donations of training material (e.g. ingredients, beads, material).
• More places and opportunities to sell the products.
• Volunteer trainers or sponsorship of trainers.
• Volunteer workers or sponsorship of workers – people who are prepared to do anything…
• Second hand clothing donations to be used for the Jumble Sale job creation project.
• Donations of anything that we can use in the training and production (e.g. sewing machines, heaters, ovens) or anything that we can help the women with (e.g. food, blankets).
• Monetary donations – once off or monthly by signing a debit order form.
• Support for our fundraising initiatives e.g. buying a raffle ticket or joining us at a Food & Wine Pairing evening.
• Marketing of SHERIAT and our services e.g. by signing up for the news letter or joining us on Facebook and spreading the word!

Although the services and training that Sheriat delivers are established, we are in many ways still developing the program and believe that it will be an exciting road for us, and anybody who decides to partner with us, ahead.