The Nursing Training Project is a part of an adolescent girls’ empowerment project undertaken by KNUC. The project aims at training adolescent girls in the area of nursing. The main objectives of this project are:

• To train adolescent girls in Nursing with special focus on issues important in the local context so that they can act as Health Workers/Advisors in the community
• To make these trainees a bridge between home and hospitals
• To use their skills in remote regions where doctors are not available, dhais need help or training and adolescents need health advice.
• To make the program sustainable with help of key trainees.
• To spread health awareness and education among other adolescents through the trainees.

Training Session Conducted by Dr.Mitra, a resident doctor at the training center

Most of the girls selected for training have completed high school and in some cases Bachelors degree. The program involves a 6 month theoretical component followed by a 6 month practical training component.

Some pictures from a visit by Sonia Sarkar, an AID San Diego volunteer in March 2007 are shown above. At the time of her visit, the first batch of girls had finished the theoretical component and were working on their practical training at the nursing home on the KNUC campus.  Some of them were already in a position to help the doctors in routine tasks during surgery in the operation theatre.