Flagship Details
Project Samartha
Purpose
To empower the slum women to be able to earn a livelihood for themselves and become self-reliant.
Objective
We aim to help the women from these specific slums by helping them to set up a business which is run by them. It is run in a community participatory approach by involving youth, family members of these women and the women themselves. This program improves their socio-economic conditions thus increasing their confidence level and encouraging other women from the community to participate and explore other business opportunities, thus generating employment opportunities for the community at large.
Initiative
RSBF mobilised a group of women with leadership and entrepreneurial abilities to come together and create a small business of cold-pressed oil manufacturing. We trained them on the extraction process, quality maintenance, certification, labelling and packaging and in establishing market linkage. We also groom them on their personal hygiene personality development and scalability of business. We procure raw materials and provide them with a cold press oil unit from which the oil of any nuts and seeds can be extracted.
Impact
- The project has already empowered a total of five women, and their family members have also benefited from the seed funding provided to establish the oil unit. It is hoped that this effort will help to uplift the socioeconomically deprived Ramoshi, Wadar, and Nathpanthi populations living in these neglected areas.
- To generate livelihood opportunities for the women of these backward communities.
- Increases their confidence level and respect among their family members and the community at large.
- Knowledge and awareness between traditional healthy organic cold pressed oils vs. inorganic oil available at the market and its long-term health benefits.
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