Business School for Rural Women in Maharashtra
Business school in India for women
Summary
The Business School provides technical skills to rural women without formal education and to girls forced to drop out of school, enabling them to start and/or improve their own micro enterprises.
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Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Many rural women in Maharashtra are either uneducated or are pulled from school at a young age. To address this situation, the Business School offers a variety of technical classes at our rural branch offices to enable women to start new businesses or expand existing ones. As such, the business school creates entrepreneurial opportunities for women, allowing them to enter the rural job market and strengthen economically-weak communities through micro and small enterprises.
Activities
We offer classes ranging from tailoring and embroidery to financial literacy and computer skills. Each course aims to enable the women to begin a new business or expand upon an existing one, allowing our students to gain financial independence.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $72,612
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $27,388
Total Funding Goal: $100,000
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
Our School aims to improve the long-run economic status of women and their families through new business opportunities enhanced through entrepreneurial skills. We expect to graduate approximately 200 students in the School's 2nd year of operation.
Project Message
“All my life I have dug wells in the sun to earn my wages. For the first time in my life I am sitting in shelter and making cotton bags and selling them after taking the course in the business school.
- Shaila Mane, A student from the bag making course, Vaduj.
Who is Running This Project
Contact
Chetna Sinha Sinha
President
Mann Deshi Mahila Sahakari Bank Ltd. Mhaswad
Tal. Mann Dist.- Satara
Mhaswad, Maharashtra Postal Code 415509
India
+91-02373-270660
Email:
Project Sponsor
Organization
Mann Deshi Foundation
Mann Deshi Mahila Sahakari Bank Ltd. Mhaswad Tal. Mann Dist.- Satara
Mhaswad,
Maharashtra
415509
India
+91-02373-270660
http://www.manndeshi.org
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Where this Project is Located
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India
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Education.
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 November 6, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 31, 2007
Latest Update from the Field
Expansion and Financial Inclusion
By Chetna Sinha - Founder and Chair of the Mann Deshi Fo, May 25, 2009 11:50 AM
Thank you for your continued support of the Business School. The past few years have shown tremendous growth as we have opened branches in three locations – Mhaswad, Vaduj, and Dahiwadi. We have also begun to launch our Mobile Business School, which will provide a mobile classroom to reach women in rural villages who are unable to attend courses due to social and economic barriers.
Enrollment in our financial literacy course increased from 5,304 students in December 2008 to 5,701 students in March 2009. Other popular courses include computer literacy, English speaking, and basic tailoring. A veterinary camp to vaccinate and immunize the farm animals of our clients was very successful as over 850 students participated.
Our future plans include expansion of our course offering and further financial inclusion of women through the expansion of their micro-enterprises. This includes exposure visits for idea generation, a marketing center to connect suppliers and consumers, and the launch of SmartCard technology to streamline processes and increase efficiencies between the Bank and the Business School. The Business School plans to open two more branches in the near future in Satara and Solapur where demand has been expressed by the Bank’s clients.
We greatly appreciate all the support you have given us so far and hope that you will be able to help us in for our future projects.
Affectionately,
Chetna
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