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SELF HELP GROUPS :
SELF HELP PROJECT – EMPOWERING COMMUNITY THROUGH EMPWORING WOMEN
PROJECT GOAL
The Project seeks to empower women so as to equip them with skills required to bring about a positive change in the quality of their life as well as that of their families and the community.
PROJECT OBJECTIVES
- Encouraging women to cultivate the habit of thrift and savings and to take up income generation exercises.
- Capacity building on education, health and other issues of relevance.
- Sensitizing women about their constitutional, property and other legal rights.
- Promoting Literacy and bookkeeping training.
- Capacity building of women to enable them to advocate for their cause at the micro level.
TARGET BENEFICIARIES
250 women organized in the form of 18 Self Help Groups in the Jahangirpuri resettlement colony
ACTIVITIES
- Literacy Programme for the women: All the illiterate women out of these 250 are promoted for adult literacy classes and orientation is provided to all of them on the importance of education, social awareness, issues of welfare for women and children.
- Self Help Groups: The first year saw formation of 18 self help groups, opening of bank accounts and initiation of thrift and credit activities. Training of basic aspect of self help groups were also organized. This is the second phase of the project wherein, efforts are being directed to take the groups formed towards norming and performing. In this period group stabilization would take place and groups would begin to lend from its own savings for undertaking various income generating activities. The group will ensure proper scrutiny of the loan application of each member (critical peer voting of loans). Strong credit discipline will be maintained by the group by ensuring weekly repayment and quick peer pressure on individual defaulting members and norm violation. During this period members of the SHGs will receive training to develop their confidence attitude and skills to manage not only savings, and credit but would be linked to institutions and markets outside their villages.
During this phase the members will be trained on specific issues relevant for the women and their role in the society and these trained members would be used for larger awareness generation in the community. Focus would be on making education and health services and esp. natal care more accessible to the women. The areas of income generation activity would also be expanded further.
- Health Care Services: The state of mother and child health is appalling in the area. Awareness and treatment camps are organized on monthly basis in liasoning with the govt and pvt hospitals for promoting safe motherhood and child hood. Apart from that, orientation talks are also conducted with the women on health issues.
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