Varanasi Welfare Foundation

An NGO run by a multi-faith group of local people to improve the life oportunities of those most in need in their community. The NGO has a Training Centre in the Cantonment area of Varanasi where local women are employed to provide essential skills in sewing, knitting, painting and other handicrafts to young women. There is an up-to-date computer room where young people are able to gain much needed knowledge in a range of IT skills. and for those children and young people who have never been to school there is training in basic numeracy and literacy.