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Organizing Women to Improve Health in India
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Summary
To help 10,500 poor, marginalized women in 35 rural villages in Bihar, India organize self-help groups, escape money lenders, increase income, manage their savings, improve their health and education.
How Donors Like You Helped
Thanks to donors like you, a total of $550 was raised for this project.
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More Information About this Project
Project Needs and Beneficiaries
In densely populated Bihar, over 70% of the people live in poverty. Most belong to socially marginalized castes. Women are especially disadvantaged. Only 11% of women are literate. Many girls marry before they are 18. Women suffer from lack of maternal health care, unwanted pregnancies, and closely spaced births. They lack vital health knowledge and have a limited role in decision-making. Women do not have a chance meet to discuss how to solve their priority problems.
Activities
Activites include providing high quality community-based reproductive health care services, and training in women's leadership and organization.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $550
Funding Policy: subsidized/guaranteed
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 $550as of Feb 26 2004. The original project funding goal was $16,000.
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
Resources
Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
Reduce unwanted pregnancies and increase average spacing between wanted births; Increase percent of women obtaining pre-natal care and assistance at birth by a trained health professional; Increase credit provided to women's group members
Project Message
We support GPSVS because of their philosophy "Swarajya" self-reliant local governance based on justice and equity. GPSVS is a high performance, low profile agency in this marginalized area of Bihar
- Gopal K. Nakarmi, World Neighbors Program Coordinator
When this Project was Updated
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on June 06, 2003.
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