Along with formal education and vocational training in the Polytechnic, all girls learn sewing, embroidery, knitting, crochet for which regular classes are conducted. Regular exhibitions – cum-sales of handwork are arranged at regular intervals and sold in the handicraft section.
The girls are paid a stipend for the work they produce in order to encourage them and give them some pocket money. Handwork by girls has earned appreciation from visitors including those from abroad.
There is a strictly enforced daily regimen for the girls. In order to prepare them for post marital life and to inculcate in them a sense of family and community living, they participate in daily chores including helping in the kitchen.
Anjuman-I-Islam is a secular institution. The orphanage as per the wishes of the Peermohamed brothers is a home to approximately a hundred and fifty orphan girls belonging exclusively to the financially weaker sections of the Muslim society; consequently bringing up these girls in keeping with the tenets of Islam, is the responsibility of the institution.
Hence two trained ‘Muallema’ have been appointed to teach the girls Islamic studies, including the recitation of the “Quran”. The girls have been divided into batches – above and below teens – for the convenience of the ‘Muallema”.
When a group of girls finishes learning to read the ‘Glorious Quran’ the ‘Hadiyah’ ceremony takes place. Salaah (Namaz) is offered five times a day – Fajr, Magrib and Isha are offered in congregation while Zuhr and Asr are offered individually at the dedicated prayer hall.
The girls observe fasts during the month of Ramadan. ‘Eid-ul-Fitr’, ‘Eid-ul-Zuha’ and Eid-e-Miladun Nabi’ are celebrated with great fervour.
