Programs for Women
Co-Creating Economic Progress
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This set of programs is focussed on helping 35 to 65 year old women from underprivileged communities become socially and financially self-reliant and generate income as individual or group entrepreneurs.
Women Entrepreneurship Program

Creating awareness about the possibility of generating
income through self-owned and managed enterprises among house-bound, frequently
illiterate/semiliterate women, motivating them to earn without relying on exploitative
middle-men, helping them to come together as a group of co-owners to decide on a
business for which they have some prior experience, skills, interest or knowledge,
training them in basic life skills, and relevant technical skills, and setting up a production
or retail enterprise are the stages of implementation of this program.
Exposure visits,
confidence building, market awareness, customer handling, quality control, accounting
and negotiating are skills that are inculcated though continuous hand holding and
mentoring to train the women to become successful owners of sustainable enterprises.
Adult Literacy Program

The objective is to provide basic level of empowerment with the ability to sign their names, read sign boards, newspapers and keep simple house hold accounts. CBFL Software developed by TCS, is used to engage the audience and provide basic numeracy skills like counting, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division along with language skills like writing their names and reading basic Hindi words.
SHG Formation

Another level of empowerment for women is focussed on inculcating the saving habit, experiencing the power of collective working as a support group for meeting urgent financial needs of group members, becoming financially literate, keeping accounts, and carring out banking transactions. This intervention covers creating awareness, mobilising women into groups, helping them register as an SHG and develop operating norms, supporting in operations and encouraging them to become entrepreneurs.
Projects Under Implementation In 2022-23

- Women Entrepreneurship Project
- Project Aarambh – in Mangolpuri since 2017 -18. Currently funded through Individual donations
- Project Protsahan – in Prithla Block, Palwal District in Haryana – as part of a Composite Project supported by MSC India
- Project Mazbooti – in Sangam Vihar since 2020-21 – supported by SMS India Pvt Ltd
- Project Himmat – in Dakshinpuri since March 2022 – supported by SMS India Pvt Ltd
- Adult Literacy Program
- Project Protsahan – in Prithla Block, Palwal District in Haryana – as part of a Composite Project supported by MSC India
- Project Spreading Wings – in Patoudi and its neighbouring villages – supported by the BT Group
- SHG Formation
- Project Protsahan – in Prithla Block, Palwal District in Haryana – as part of a Composite Project supported by MSC India
- Project Aarambh – in Mangolpuri. Currently funded through Individual donations