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for Agricultural Renewal in Maharashtra (AFARM) ,
India
About 35 % of the trained women entrepreneurs have initiated
or expanded their enterprises.
Collective Enterprises are established mainly includes Plant Nursery,
Custom Hiring Center, Poultry Mother Unit, Dashparni Ark Production,
Agri inputs Trading, Dal processing, Organic rice production and
marking etc.
Women Entrepreneurs have been able to access formal Credit from
financial institutions like Banks & Micro Finance Institutions
and expanded their business.
Women Entrepreneurs have able to demand a higher price to their
product resulting in increased participation in household financial
decision making.
Women Entrepreneurs have started regular use of the digital modes
of payments in their business related transactions and making
utility payments.
India
Sponsorship Committee, Lonavala, Maharashtra
Employment
Saksham : Need Based skills such as Sewing, Beauty and Wellness,
photography and professional Mehendi
Masoom
, India
Masoom’s Career Cell provides comprehensive career guidance,
access to skill-building courses, and necessary support for night
school and Evening Learning Center (ELC) alumni to secure meaningful
employment. The initiative focuses on helping students explore
diverse career paths, develop technical and entrepreneurial skills,
and improve their overall standard of living. The Career Cell
offers scholarships, career counseling, and support for both short-term
vocational training and long-term professional education, aiming
to empower students to break free from the cycle of poverty and
secure better opportunities in the organized sector.
Mel Jol
,
India
Financial Skills
GramArth is a comprehensive program aimed at enhancing financial
inclusion and education in communities. The program recognizes
the significant gap in financial knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours,
particularly in economically vulnerable areas. Through a multi-faceted
approach, GramArth seeks to empower children, youth, women and
significant others from communities by enhancing financial knowledge
and skills that will empower them in making informed decisions
about money matters and financial products, ultimately improving
their financial well-being.
NeevJivan
Foundation , India
It offers a platter of vocations to our students and help them
make the right choice - Poultry
Farming, Fish Farming, Goat Rearing, Mushroom Cultivation, Vermi-composting,
Tailoring, Nursery, Patrawali, Kulhad Making, Handicrafts, Catering
/ Dhaba, Bakery, Pani Puri, Food Processing, Sanitary Pad Making,
Rural Tourism, Chiku Processing, Masala Making, Papad Making,
Pickle Making, Bee Keeping & Honey Cultivation, Brick Making,
Agarbathi Making, Sewai Making and many more….
Besides
the technical knowledge on the vocation of choice, we also teach
them. Entrepreneurship skills, facilitate access to funds and
support our students to start their small scale business ventures.
The 30-45
day program is a combination of training workshops, interactive
games & decoding group dynamics and on-line sessions – with
maximum time being spent on practical aspects and the balance
on theory.
UPAY
NGO
Delhi, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra
Online market to poor artisans
sabkasaman.com is an initiative by UPAY NGO(उपाय) to provide an
online market to poor artisans and footpath hawkers. Through sabkasaman
women from slums and villages are getting trained and getting
online market for their products.
UPAY has started
skill development centres to enhance the skills of poor womenfolks.
At present UPAY is giving sewing training to poor women and also
engaged unemployed youth in skill development.
Samarth –
Skill Development Centres
Samarth
is a skill development initiative for women, especially mothers
of our students and young women, with a motive to empower them
through skill-based employability opportunities. The initiative
was launched in the year 2016 to free families to break the shackles
of poverty and provide dignity of labour. A six-month training
course makes the beneficiaries industry-ready followed by order-based
work allocation. The Samarth centres are currently running in
Nagpur, Delhi-NCR, Gadarwara and Bengaluru.
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