Beauty Therapy Training would be a brand new program idea for Open Hands Trust. Since the beginning of our Sewing Training program at Open Hands Trust, it has come to our awareness that some young women are not interested in sewing, but could become very excited about learning the skills involved in Beauty Therapy. This would include beauty styling, henna design work, and hair styling for weddings, parties, and the all-important Indian wedding.

In the future - when a fully trained teacher is available to teach these skills, we would like to add it to the options of vocational training for women at Open Hands Education Trust.

TESTIMONIAL
Celia Fuller - WOW Australia

"After attending my first Indian wedding I became aware of many secret hopes and dreams of the local young women. One girl who looked after all the hair needs of the special guests for the wedding mentioned her hopes of to one day do Beauty Therapy training. By her age, I knew it would not be long before she would be married off and have to leave her village behind and the reputation she had with hair and henna. Any chance to do further study would be short lived as there was a high likelihood her future husband's home would not have power or training facilities nearby due to coming from rural backgrounds. Rural women of the lower castes sadly are still not encouraged to this day, to have aspirations of any type of advanced education. I grieved for her loss of opportunity along with the many other girls, so have sought a remedy for the problem. We really need your support to make these opportunities possible."