Projects

Women's Empowerment

Women's Empowerment

With the object of empowering the rural women GBS has been implementing many activities including raising awareness, providing them with legal literacy, protecting their human rights, prevention of domestic violence and other kinds of atrocities against women and girls etc.

During past 5 years our focus has been on mobilizing these poor rural women to form Self Help Groups (SHG) and motivating them to make small savings and depositing in the Bank accounts opened in the name of their groups and getting support from the banks as soft loans for their petty household needs.

During a period of 4 years 440 SHG have been formed involving over 4,000 rural women. The one year saving of these SHGs was INR 15, 00, 000 (equivalent to US $ 27,000) and they got a soft loan worth Rs. 1 crore ($ 250,000) in 2006 which is a record in the area. This way the poor women were emancipated from exploitation of local money lenders.

Now attempts are being made to provide these rural women with non formal education and vocational training and involve them in various kinds of income generating activities in order to make them economically self reliant and upgrade their status in family and society as well.