Help 5000 Poor Village Women avoid exploitation.

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Rahibai - goats through a loan from her Self Help Rahibai Sasane is in a women’s self-help savings group. She has received training in bookkeeping, government schemes, and gained confidence to participate in the male/high-caste dominated village council. She used to earn her living by migrating to harvest sugar-cane. However, by taking small loans from the group she has been able to purchase a herd of goats, which her husband tends the goats during the day, whilst she also makes brooms and baskets to sell	Rahibai with the other members of her Self Help Gr Rahibai has also banded together with friends in the self-help group and persuaded the local government to allow them to cultivate some government-owned wasteland outside the village. ‘I would never have dared to try to do that alone!’ she says.
Women's empowerment meeting Through empowerment and training meetings Rahibai has also become more aware about the importance of education. She sent her two sons to school, but her daughter didn’t get an education as Rahibai kept her at home, which she says she now regrets. “But”, she says, her face brightening, “at least I know that my granddaughter is receiving a good education and so can live a good life”.