SIFE and "Women Empowerment"
Thats what Project Asha is all about...
Objective:
"Empower women from deprived sections by providing embroidery design skills and basic infrastructure and ensure a business process to market their products."
Our aim would be to help achieve the following things:
Help develop specific skill sets
Help them understand the business process and how markets work
Eventually, help them gain confidence to earn on their own and face the world with confidence.
Service and Methodology:
High end embroidery training to be given to women. The women will be selected from the SHG which is in the process of being formed through SAHAS(Somaiya Action for HIV/AIDS Support). We have identified the trainer, Mrs Kumud Kapadia who has agreed to train the women for a period of two months. Initially a group of 5 will be trained at the trainers house , 2 days per week.
Depending on the skillset achieved, the trainer herself will provide part of her work to them.On successful completion of the initial work, we plan to rope in bulk orders from the market.Side by side, we plan to provide training classes in financial literacy ,marketing skills and help them understand how markets work.
TimeLine:
Training will commence on January 4th,2007.
Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
PRAGATI: SIFE and Safe Drinking Water...
Vision:
“Providing underprivileged families, access to clean drinking water by promoting Women based entrepreneurial initiatives”The Problem:The Behrampada, Mumbai community, comprising of approximately 1,70,000 households suffer from the problem of contaminated drinking water. The problem here could mainly be attributed to the fact that the water supply pipes intersect the open sewer lines at many points, which, given the porous condition of the pipes lead to contamination by inward seepage. This is not an isolated incident. The underlying objective is to come up with a customised solution which can be safey and effectivels adapted to other needy areas as well.
The Approach :
Pragati has been implemented in colaboration with Engineers for a sustainable world (ESW), Berkeley chapter. Pragati ollows a two-pronged strategy of solving the core issue of clean drinking water by introducing point of use filter (named “Haath mein Sehad” filters), while at the same time empowering local populace (with an emphasis on women) by continued training and entrepreneurial initiatives.
Current phase:
This program has moved through an awareness creation phase, as the first step to any solution is the realization. Water filters have been designed, prototyped and tested with help from ESW Berkeley. Eight filters have been sold to the community at a subsidised price of Rs 250/- and these filters have been monitored on a monthly baisis. (For latest information check dsd.lbl.gov/BWC/mumbai )
Pragati holds a lot of hope in a world where clean drinking water is fast becoming a luxury. This project is a bold step as it envisions not only an economic solution to a critical problem, but also an equitable world, through self-action. Changing the world, the SIFE way!
“Providing underprivileged families, access to clean drinking water by promoting Women based entrepreneurial initiatives”The Problem:The Behrampada, Mumbai community, comprising of approximately 1,70,000 households suffer from the problem of contaminated drinking water. The problem here could mainly be attributed to the fact that the water supply pipes intersect the open sewer lines at many points, which, given the porous condition of the pipes lead to contamination by inward seepage. This is not an isolated incident. The underlying objective is to come up with a customised solution which can be safey and effectivels adapted to other needy areas as well.
The Approach :
Pragati has been implemented in colaboration with Engineers for a sustainable world (ESW), Berkeley chapter. Pragati ollows a two-pronged strategy of solving the core issue of clean drinking water by introducing point of use filter (named “Haath mein Sehad” filters), while at the same time empowering local populace (with an emphasis on women) by continued training and entrepreneurial initiatives.
Current phase:
This program has moved through an awareness creation phase, as the first step to any solution is the realization. Water filters have been designed, prototyped and tested with help from ESW Berkeley. Eight filters have been sold to the community at a subsidised price of Rs 250/- and these filters have been monitored on a monthly baisis. (For latest information check dsd.lbl.gov/BWC/mumbai )
Pragati holds a lot of hope in a world where clean drinking water is fast becoming a luxury. This project is a bold step as it envisions not only an economic solution to a critical problem, but also an equitable world, through self-action. Changing the world, the SIFE way!
PRAGATI: SIFE and Safe Drinking Water...
Vision:“Providing underprivileged families, access to clean drinking water by promoting Women based entrepreneurial initiatives”The Problem:The Behrampada, Mumbai community, comprising of approximately 1,70,000 households suffer from the problem of contaminated drinking water. The problem here could mainly be attributed to the fact that the water supply pipes intersect the open sewer lines at many points, which, given the porous condition of the pipes lead to contamination by inward seepage. This is not an isolated incident. The underlying objective is to come up with a customised solution which can be safey and effectivels adapted to other needy areas as well.The Approach :Pragati has been implemented in colaboration with Engineers for a sustainable world (ESW), Berkeley chapter. Pragati ollows a two-pronged strategy of solving the core issue of clean drinking water by introducing point of use filter (named “Haath mein Sehad” filters), while at the same time empowering local populace (with an emphasis on women) by continued training and entrepreneurial initiatives.
Current phase:This program has moved through an awareness creation phase, as the first step to any solution is the realization. Water filters have been designed, prototyped and tested with help from ESW Berkeley. Eight filters have been sold to the community at a subsidised price of Rs 250/- and these filters have been monitored on a monthly baisis. (For latest information check dsd.lbl.gov/BWC/mumbai )
Pragati holds a lot of hope in a world where clean drinking water is fast becoming a luxury. This project is a bold step as it envisions not only an economic solution to a critical problem, but also an equitable world, through self-action. Changing the world, the SIFE way!
Current phase:This program has moved through an awareness creation phase, as the first step to any solution is the realization. Water filters have been designed, prototyped and tested with help from ESW Berkeley. Eight filters have been sold to the community at a subsidised price of Rs 250/- and these filters have been monitored on a monthly baisis. (For latest information check dsd.lbl.gov/BWC/mumbai )
Pragati holds a lot of hope in a world where clean drinking water is fast becoming a luxury. This project is a bold step as it envisions not only an economic solution to a critical problem, but also an equitable world, through self-action. Changing the world, the SIFE way!
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