Self Help Groups
From fields to skies: Rural women soar with drone training
Over 1000 women farmers have been trained in operating drones at the Drone Destination, enabling them to improve their farming skills and increase their income.
A tailor-made solution for women to stop brewing alcohol
Sheela Devi, who became an entrepreneur as a married teen, thanks to her tailoring skills, trains other women in her Jharkhand village so that they can quit brewing liquor and migrating for work.
‘Only my husband had faith that I could empower women’
Nitu Nagpure’s efforts to form a Self Help Group in her village in Balaghat district of Madhya Pradesh has brought about a change in women’s lives, besides improving farm output, family income and quality of life.
“Instead of succumbing to miseries, I took charge of my life and SHGs helped me”
Born in a poor farmer household and having had to bear the burden of losing loved ones early in life, Sukari Nag of Neganar village in Chhattisgarh was emotionally and financially drained. Joining a self-help group not only improves her income but helps her guide others as the group’s leader.