DESSI International

DESSI International is women-led, women-focused nonprofit civil society organization aims for the women empowerment in a in a safe, clean, healthy, and sustainable environment through applique arts, TVET & advocacy. DESSI International strives to promoting rilli applique arts, skilling youth through TVET, and offering innovative inclusive initiatives for empowerment and dignified well-being of rur

al women, marginalized and vulnerable communities in a in a safe, clean, healthy, and sustainable environment. Vision Statement
Envisions world of empowered women, girls and marginalized communities in a in a safe, clean, healthy, and sustainable environment. Mission Statement
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 in a safe, clean, healthy, and sustainable environment. Aims and Objectives
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 in a in a safe, clean, healthy, and sustainable environment

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

Locations of Presence
Larkana, Sindh, Pakistan


Registration, Affiliation and Collaboration
- Special Consultative Status with the United Nations ECOSOC since 2017
- Nonprofit organization with Federal Board of Revenue
- Societies Registration Act XXI of 1860
- Sindh Charities Commission
- 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