Turning materials into everyday income.
Inspiration Welfare Society's Crafts Making Training brings together persons with disabilities and their mothers to learn a broad range of handicraft skills —moving beyond any single material to build a versatile creative toolkit. Sessions run twice a week, with mother and child training side by side as equal co-creators.
How It Works
Small, mixed-ability groups train under experienced instructors using visual, sensory-friendly demonstration. Mothers work alongside their children as co-creators, not helpers — each session ends with a finished, sellable piece. Techniques are kept simple enough to master and repeat independently at home.
What Participants Learn
Training covers a wide variety of craft categories including Clay items, Jute crafts, Pottery decoration, Paper crafts, Home & lifestyle items which covers a diverse sellable product range and this will strengthen sensory skill, attention skill, motor skills, creative confidence of special needs persons and mother-child partnership through varied, hands-on practice.
Who We Serve
Individuals with autism, Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, intellectual disabilities, and speech or hearing impairments — with mild to moderate support needs — train alongside their mothers throughout the program.
Our Approach
Experienced trainers guide each session using simple, visual, hands-on demonstration suited to different ability levels. By working across multiple craft forms, participants discover which skills suit them best, building a wider base of techniques they can practice and repeat at home.
Building Two Entrepreneurs, Not One
As with IWS's other skill-development initiatives, the goal is to create two entrepreneurs per family — helping both the individual with special needs and their mother move toward self-employment and independence.
From Training to Market
Finished products are sold under the Barnali banner, giving participants a ready market without needing to build sales channels of their own. No new sales channel is needed — finished crafts sell directly through the existing Barnali platform alongside jewelry products, keeping the program lean and self-supporting.
Why This Matters
By training across many craft forms rather than one, this program gives families more than a skill — it gives them options, resilience, and a growing portfolio of things they can make, sell, and be proud of.
Risks, Managed Simply
Short duration → focus on 2–3 easy-to-repeat techniques.
Skill differences → individualized pacing.
Behavioral variability → short, structured sessions with mothers present throughout.