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PROGRAMS:
SOCIO-ECONOMIC UPLIFTMENT FOR
URBAN WOMEN
When this program was launched in 2002, it was with the
overall objective to strengthen processes to promote
economic development of women and to create an environment
for social change to improve their quality of life and this
way promote their empowerment. The identification and
selection phases targeted the destitute and vulnerable that
didn’t receive any fair treatment like prostitutes and
unmarried mothers.
To achieve this goal 40 Self Helped Groups (SHGs) were
formed in 18 local villages, thus covering an area with
11,500 inhabitants. PRAYAS identified based on needs,
interest capacity, skills and availability, key women within
the villages to form small committees of affinity groups.
The frequent interaction with these groups of volunteers
enabled the organisation to build up a good relationship and
training and introduction of various topics such as
leadership, saving and credit and long-term benefits of
self-help groups were given to the members with a global
goal to strengthen and stabilize the structure of the
groups.
Through training on issues including income-generating
activities, awareness about health and responsibility within
the group the program gained strength. A particular effort
was made to support the income-generating activities by
promoting the production as well as the distribution by
linking the groups with different agencies for marketing and
other development issues. Today the program has move into a
stage where the income-generating activities has provided
the SHGs with savings and the possibility to provide it
members with micro credit loans.
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