Programs

SPEED Trust leads the following programs in the slums:

• The Micro-credit program enables the slums inhabitants to create or develop small-scale activities, so as to increase their income and improve their living standard.
• The Vocational training program’s main objective is to increase the technical skill level of women and school drop-out youngsters, through training courses in various fields: tailoring, embroidery, screen-printing, auto-rickshaw driving, etc.
• The Producers groups gather people who, after their completion of a vocational training, are manufacturing items for external orders (knitted hats, wire baskets, etc).
• The Educational program provides educational facilities for slum children such as an evening tuition center, extra-curricular activities and summer camps.
• The Family follow-up and sponsorship program aims at pulling families out of the deepest poverty, most of them destitute or widowed women with their children.
• The latest project of the organization, the Home for isolated mothers provides a shelter and a training centre to the poorest women and their children, with priority to the families rendered homeless by the 26 th December 2004 tsunami.