About DESSI International

DESSI International is women-focused non-religious, non-political and non-profit humanitarian civil society organization based at Larkana, Sindh, Pakistan. DESSI International strives to promoting rilli applique arts, skilling youth through TVET, and offering innovative inclusive initiatives for empowerment and dignified well-being of rural women, marginalized and vulnerable communities in a safe, clean, healthy, and sustainable environment.

Envisions world of empowered women, girls and marginalized communities in a safe, clean, healthy, and sustainable environment

Promoting rilli applique arts, skilling youth through TVET, and offering innovative social initiatives for empowerment and dignified well-being of rural women, marginalized and vulnerable communities in a safe, clean, healthy, and sustainable environment.

• To promote handmade rilli applique arts and cultural clothing made by marginalized communities and women
• To provide quality skill development and capacity building training programs to women
• To instant provide platform and market linkages support to women for their sustainable entrepreneurship
• Offer innovative inclusive initiatives for women empowerment
• Envisions world of empowered women, girls, and marginalized communities
• Safe, clean, healthy, and sustainable environment

• Women Empowerment
• Arts and Culture
• Technical and Vocational Education
• Advocacy and Mobilization
• Marginalized Communities
• Climate Change

Larkana and Kamber Shahdadkot districts of Sindh province in Pakistan

• Special Consultative Status with the United Nations ECOSOC since 2017
• Nonprofit organization with Federal Board of Revenue
• Sindh Charities Commission
• Societies Registration Act XXI of 1860
• Sindh Vocational Educational and Training Authority (STEVTA)
• Sindh Trade Testing Board
• Member of NGO Commission on the Status of Women, New York
• Member of Feminist Alliance for Rights (FAR) USA
• Member of GEIDCO, China
• Working with NAVTTC
• Working with BBSHRRDB
• Worked with National Internship Program
• Worked with Sindh Rural Support Organization (SRSO)
• Worked with ECI UNDP Pakistan
• MoUs signed with and collaborating with SUPPORT Foundation, SZABIST ZABTech-iTVE Larkana and many other reputable organizations and like-minded people across the globe

Recent Updates

Ongoing / Recent Projects

• National Vocational and Technical Training Commission (NAVTTC) under Prime Minister's Youth Skills Development Program (Batch-IV) at DESSI International, Larkana in the morning shift for three months duration as allocation of 2 trades (Beautician and Fashion Designing & Tailoring)


• National Vocational and Technical Training Commission (NAVTTC) under Kamyab Jawan Program "Skills for All" (Batch-III) at DESSI International, Larkana in the evening shift for six months duration as allocation of 3 trades (Beautician, Fashion Designing & Tailoring, and Computer Applications and Office Professional


• Benazir Bhutto Shaheed Human Resources, Research and Development Board (BBSHRRDB) under Phase-XIV at Larkana in the morning shift for four months duration:
  Rs.3 million awarded and allocation of trades (Beautician 100, Tailoring 60 and CIT/Computerized Accounting 50


• Benazir Bhutto Shaheed Human Resources, Research and Development Board (BBSHRRDB) under Phase-XIV at Kamber Shahdadkot in the name of Islamabad Applique Learning Center of Arts & Technology in the morning shift for four months duration:
  Rs.3 million awarded and allocation of trades (Electrician 50, Solar Energy Technician 50, Fashion Applique Arts 50 and Hand Embroidery 50)


• Technical and Vocational Institute at Larkana


• Technical and Vocational Institute at Kamber Shahdadkot


• Rilli Applique Arts and Crafts, and Women Clothing online shop


• Beauty Parlor at Larkana


• Primary Education FREE Tuition Center at Kamber Shahdadkot


• Rilli Applique workshop at Qamber Shahdadkot

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