The goal of this project is to support women from weaker sections of society in setting up micro-enterprises and providing them with the necessary skills in order to do so. The two identified areas are food processing and aquarium systems.
During the first year, intensive surveys, group discussions and initiating training programmes were the focus of activities. In the past year, the focus has been on conducting a large number of training programs imparting the necessary skills and also conducting trial runs of production in the food processing sector. Exposure visits were conducted to various local institutions to assess information available, resource persons were identified and the women were provided with an understanding of the different processes involved. Throughout the year a total of 7 programmes were conducted for a total of 168 number women who were selected from women Self Help Groups facilitated by local NGOs.
Anupama Pai- Rajendran K