WOMEN EMPOWERMENT 

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Aim

This project focused on empowering underprivilege and marginalize women through systematic training in skill that will provide them with a livelihood.

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Women are benefitted

Opportunity

Statistical reports show that empowering women to achieve the maximum potential in their homes and otherwise is a critical component of any developmental strategy. The unique disadvantages women of most communities’ face are of poor access to education, high unemployment rate, low societal status, poor access to information, and low sense of identity or accomplishment. They are often called “the silent sufferers”. However, women have statistically been proven to spend more of their income on their households, and therefore empowering women to earn better incomes would benefit the welfare of the entire family directly.
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Filling the gap: Realizing this need to empower women in the effort to impact entire societies, Reaching Hand has sought to establish small-scale, low investment enterprises for the goal of providing women with a means of income for themselves and for their families. These enterprises influence women who are generally uneducated, semi-educated, widowed, or in other ways are of disadvantaged societal status.

Programs: Through these programs, the women are energized to become economically self-sufficient, emotionally self-confident, thereby providing improved living conditions at home and better prospects for their children and other immediate family. Under this program, we have successfully provided training in tailoring skills and embroidery to about 90 women in Perandapalli Village of Hosur and Kaggalipura in Bengaluru. Raw materials and sewing machines are also provided by Reaching Hand to help these women stand on their own feet.

We have also opened self-help women groups by instilling in them skills like candle making, chocolate making, bag making etc.

Outcomes: This project is currently creating awareness among greater numbers of women in that village and creating a sense of unity and a desire for more among them. We hope to enable hundreds more of women to become agents of change in their communities, living and modeling lives of dignity.

At Reaching Hand, we strongly believe that empowering women is the way forward for the benefit of the family unit as well as society in general.

Future plans: We also have plans to begin a Computer training course for rural women wherein they can be equipped to boldly face the challenges of the modern world. Our aim is to see these women become economically self-sufficient and be the agents of change in their respective spheres of influence, living and modeling lives of dignity.

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