Empowered by Craft: Pulwama Women Find Joy, Skill & Independence at Sozni Training Centre These patterns are created for the Handicrafts and Handloom Department, said a man at the Training Centre in Pulwama. We have been working here for one year we come to the centre at 10 am and leave by 3.30 pm, said a girl leaarning Sozni embroidery at the centre. Madam comes to teach us. We have to work at home too to help our kids get through their tough days, said a woman learning at the centre. A woman gets more respect when she earns. We feel nice when we earn our own money and spend it on ourself. When we buy something for someone, he/she feels happy and we also feel happy. We cannot get our every need fulfilled by our husband, another woman stated her viewpoint. Sitting idle at home creates a lot of tension, it is better to come here, learn something and also enjoy. Whatever schemes the government has, they are for our benefit only, voiced another woman. We have 20 girls in the Elementary Centre and 20 girls in the Training Centre, said the Training Centre person. Whether more or less, one should earn oneself. When you earn your own money, you get a strange sense of happiness. Be it a boy or a girl, earning one’s own income gives equal happiness to both, a woman explained at the Training Centre in Pulwama, Jammu & Kashmir