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Educate and Empower 500 Women & Girls in India
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Summary
Through training we will empower the women with skills to improve their income. We teach life skills and sex education to adolescent girls so they can improve their quality of life.
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Received $14,854 from 112 donations from people like:
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More Information About this Project
Project Needs and Beneficiaries
After the Tsunami the fish catch was reduced and educated women from fishing villages need alternative sources of income generation. This project will address long term sustainable solutions through skill training- entrepreneurship, seaweed cultivation, nursery raising, and soap making for 200 women to strengthen their livelihood sources. We provide life skill, sexuality and vocational training for 300 adolescent girls in 11 fishing villages of Tamilnadu, India.
Activities
The project will provide alternative livelihoods skills training for 200 women to improve their incomes. We also provide life skill, sexuality and vocational training for 300 adolescent girls to improve their education and quality of life.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $14,614
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $41,119
Total Funding Goal: $55,733
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
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Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
500 women and adolescent girls will learn new skills to improve their income and life.
That would solve the unemployment and underemployment problem, it would improve the well being of their families. All this will lead to the equality of women.
Project Message
Economic independence is the first step towards the empowerment of women; it motivates women to claim their rights for equality. It also improves the well being of the family and children.
- Ms.K.R.Renuka, Renuka is the project leader
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on April 29, 2008.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on April 09, 2007.
Latest Update from the Field
Update for project 1702
By K.R.Renuka - Director, April 29, 2008 05:43 PM
Three years have gone after Tsunami and for most of the outside people it is very distant in their memories, moreover people think the rehabilitation work is over; new houses are built, boats and nets are given to people, normal life is returned. But there are hundreds of Devis and Sundaris in Tsunami affected villages, where people think girls are burden on families, so they are stopped from schools after puberty and married off, even to marry most of them take huge loans or sell their assets to give dowry. We just want to change this situation educate the community that girls are not liabilities but assets of the family and community
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