LAHORE (OUR STAFF REPORTER): Technology Upgradation and Skill Development Company (Tusdec) concluded a course of fashion designing for women belonging to marginalised sects of population. The action has been organised in collaboration with First Women Bank Limited (FWBL) under the implementation of USAID Gender Equity Programme.
National Institute of Design and Analysis (NIDA), a subsidiary training organization of TUSDEC, has been affianced to conduct the courses in Lahore and Karachi where total 40 women have been equipped with the art and sense of fashion design.
Tusdec arranged trainers with an enhanced outlook of fashion arena and its trends. The trainers have edified the candidates with a market driven curricula so that they can opt fashion design as an avocation to earn an independent living for themselves.
Students have been apprised with various fashion forecasts. The course has been specifically launched for the women belonging to meager income backgrounds, who cannot afford to attain quality trainings due to escalated cost rolls attached. TUSDEC has provided the trainees with free of cost tool kits and transportation facility to ensure their convenience and interest in the course.
The course ended with a display of candidates’ work where they flaunted their assignments and tasks completed during the course. This is subsequently the second batch of trainees as TUSDEC has already implemented four vocational courses of fashion design and domestic tailoring in collaboration with First Women Bank Limited at its NIDA Lahore and Karachi centres.