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Women empowerment by strengthening self help group and micro enterprise development –SAATHI project
In Nov, 2007, initiative on “Empowerment of Rural Women through SHGs and Entrepreneurship Building” was launched with financial assistance from Godfrey Phillips India, New Delhi.
The project aims at developing savings and thrift groups of women and providing them with vocational training and entrepreneurship development support on viable economic activities through training and other support inputs in packaging, marketing etc. to help women become economically self-reliant. The self help group has helped mobilize and organize women collectively for financial and social gains. It has helped in inculcating the habit of saving. The group savings is being used for inter-loaning among members for consumption and productive purposes. This has helped women members to become economically self-reliant in whatever limited sense they can given their complex social realities and situational impediments. Those seeking consumption loans alone have been able to meet their emergent needs and improve their lives.
The project is presently covering four villages of Waliawas, Bandhwari, Old Gawalpahadi and New Gawalpahadi in Gurgaon district of Haryana. Nine SHGs have been promoted and supported in these four villages till 31st March, 2010.
As part of entrepreneurship development among SHG members, three masala and cereal processing units are running in Bandhwari, Waliawas and Old Gawalpahadi villages.
A crèche has been set-up to provide child care support to women members engaged in income generating activities. Literacy classes are being conducted for the SHG women members wherein apart from basic reading, writing and numerical skills, women are imparted health education and social awareness.
 
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