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Help Women in India Start Small Businesses
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Summary
Trickle Up’s program in West Bengal, India is helping extremely poor women start or expand small businesses. They are breaking the cycle of migrant labor and building stronger communities.
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Received $7,203 from 73 donations from people like:
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More Information About this Project
Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Impoverished women in West Bengal, India have little choice but to become migrant agricultural laborers in order to feed their children. Moving from job to job with children in tow is a harsh way of life that undermines family stability and disrupts the children’s schooling. Trickle Up partners with a local community agency to offer these poor women the opportunity to start their own small family businesses. Help us to help them break the cycle of transitory work.
Activities
Trickle Up provides seed capital of $100, business development training and support services to help women in West Bengal, one of India's poorest districts, to start small businesses. The women learn basic business skills and join savings groups.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $7,203
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $34,797
Total Funding Goal: $42,000
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
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Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
This project helps these extremely poor women become self-sufficient. They are able to use their business income and savings to provide for their families' basic needs and improve their lives while remaining in their own homes and community.
Project Message
Our program in West Bengal is enabling poor women to expand or launch a business and start savings funds.They are able to provide better nutrition for their children and stabilize their family's lives
- Janet Heisey, Program Officer for Asia
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on March 06, 2007.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 07, 2006.
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