Objective

• Provide Business skill training to women to enable them to start micro-enterprises.
• Promote self-employment and entrepreneurship as viable livelihood options.
• Enhance financial literacy to help women make informed financial decisions.
• Bridge the gap between government schemes and women in need.

Project Overview

Through this project, we actively promote and support women from villages and urban slums in starting their own micro enterprises / small businesses within their communities, enabling them to earn a sustainable livelihood and gain the respect they deserve in society. We accomplish this by identifying deserving women, offering seed funding, providing comprehensive business training, mentoring, facilitating market linkages, conducting research, assisting with product selection, providing up-skilling training, organizing exposure visits, and offering other relevant support. Our aim is to empower these selected women / youth to become successful entrepreneurs in their respective villages.

Impact

• Culture of Self-employment or Entrepreneurship would be developed in the region
• More number of women would become self-reliant
• Women would get financial independence & respect in the society
• Most villages would have active women change leaders to help local people
• Better Education, Health & Future of families in the villages

Target Beneficiaries

For Entrepreneurship development, we identify women from villages or semi urban areas, who are interested to start their own businesses. Following are some of the parameters we consider during selection of beneficiaries:

• Families whose annual income less than 1.5 Lakh
• Women having some disability and willing to be self employed
• Women who are widows/divorcee or single mother but not engaged in livelihood activities
• Women from BPL, Antyodaya or other low-income group
• Women, who are skilled and have interest to start a business
• Villages where selected business has opportunity to grow and earn livelihood
• Applicants who have the family support & enough space to run a business full time

Activity Date: On going

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