Women’s Skills Development Organization
Spinning cotton into balls at Womens Skills Development Project in Pokhara, Nepal. The WSDP was set up in 1975 as a non-profit, fair trade organization to help disadvantaged women in Nepal. (Craig Ferguson)
Providing opportunities to the most disadvantaged members of a society is one of the key goals for a lot of NGO’s globally. One of the more successful organizations working in this area is the Women’s Skills Development Organization (WSDO) based in Pokhara, Nepal. In operation since 1975, the organization which is also referred to as the Women’s Skills Development project has helped thousands of disabled, economically disadvantaged, abused, widowed, divorced and outcast women in rural Nepal. By providing them with free vocational skills training, and a job facility, the women are able to become self supportive.
