Women in India who survived the tsunami will have access to vocational training and counseling.

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Skills Training for 250 Tsunami-Affected Women

Summary

The Centre for Women's Development and Rehabilitation will empower 250 tsunami-affected women by creating livelihood opportunities through vocational skills training and psychosocial counseling. progress report read updates from the field

How Donors Like You Helped

Thanks to donors like you, a total of $49,510 was raised for this project.

More Information About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

More than 3,500 families in the 11 villages in which the Centre works were affected by the tsunami. Few rehabilitation efforts have addressed the long-term economic and psychological consequences of the disaster on women and children. There is no chance to resume fishing for the next 3 to 6 months so the burden of running the family falls on women. The project will provide rehabilitation services to 250 affected women.

Activities

The project will create alternative livelihood opportunities by providing vocational skill training for 250 women. We will also help them get loans to start their own business.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $49,510

Funding Information

This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.

Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $49,510. The original project funding goal was $86,210.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

Resources

Project's External Homepage (http://www.cwdr.org.in)

Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

250 women will earn higher income and children's education and health will improve. The perceptions and positions of women in the society will change. Value-added new economic activities will be introduced in the community.

Project Message

“I know the importance of women’s economic self-sufficiency for women’s development, and children’s health and education. Through this project I can help 250 women to become economically independent.”
- Mrs. K. R. Renuka, director, CWDR

Who is Running This Project

Contact

K. R. Renuka,
Director, C.W.D.R
5/359 Annai Indira Nagar
Okkiyampet, Thuraipakkam
Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600096
India
0091-44-24482821
Email:

Project Sponsor

GlobalGiving

Organization

Center for Women's Development and Research
5/359 Annai Indira Nagar, Okkiyampet, Thuraipakkam
Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600096
India
0091-44-24482821
http://www.cwdr.org.in

Learn more about Center for Women's Development and Research and the project team.

Center for Women's Development and Research's Funded Projects on GlobalGiving

Childcare Services for Tsunami affected Children

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in India and can also be found under Women and Girls.

For more information about India, read the Human Development Report on India or the Wikipedia entry for India.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on August 13, 2007.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on February 07, 2005.

Latest Update from the Field

Observations from a project visit

By Meredith Landis - GlobalGiving Volunteer, August 13, 2007 08:32 PM

Renuka received her undergraduate degree from Ghandi Grameen University and got married soon after. By 1993, Renuka was one of three women activists in Chennai working with women in city slums and the surrounding coastal areas. Only 2% of organizations in India were run by women at the time and Human Rights organizations were very rare.

CWDR the program that Renuka established in Chennai works directly with women through four main programs: Training and loans, Human rights and gender issues, Income generation, and Computer training.

This project 250 tsunami affected women and adolescent girls was created just after the 2004 tsunami. When natural disaster strikes families living in precarious conditions find recovery very difficult. In small fishing villages in India, families survive on as little as 50 rupees per day (roughly $1.05). After the tsunami devastated many coastal regions of India, women in these fishing communities who were already struggling were forced to provide for their families with no income at all. Initially, CWDR tried to collect and distribute food, clothes and medicine to the affected villages. GlobalGiving funds were used to purchase school materials for children, thereby establishing credibility in the area.

When six months had passed and the village men were still not bringing home and income, the women of these villages became income earners of their own. CWDR’s goal is to equip these women with revenue earning skills so that they can feed their families and gain independence from their unreliable husbands. Specific skills include palm frond weaving, shoe making, soap making, silk screening, tailoring and fishing net weaving.
CWDR helped create seven self-help groups with 10 members each in Chennai. There are 20-25 women in each of the 13 groups in tsunami-affected areas and the six groups in other coastal villages. GlobalGiving provided these women with loans to build their own craft shops.

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