Empowering women by forming Women Self Help Groups and training them on Leadership Quality Development
Making them aware of their rights as Consumers
Giving them training on specific skills such as Bee keeping, Mushroom Cultivation, Candle making, Herbal medicine cultivation & processing.
Conducting vocational trainings on Tailoring and Computer education.
Micro-credit programme for income generation
Free Legal Aid to women in distress
The Women Self Help Group (WSHG) movement is a successful one. This model helps the people to develop themselves. Considering the conditions of the rural women in the rural areas, CHANARD has adopted the WSHG model and organized WSHGs. It has formulated its own strategies to develop the leadership, managerial and operational qualities in them through perspective and capacity building trainings and by encouraging them to share their experience among themselves. CHANARD has also conducted trainings, in A&R, Skill Development, Leadership Development, Entrepreneurship Development and Vocational Activities to speed up women development in the rural areas. The Women Development Corporation of Tamil Nadu extended its guidance and support and has approved to carryout the Women Development activities in Theni District from 2003 and in Dindigul District from 2006.
The following table shows how CHANARD has marched forward in the WSHG movement
No.of WSHGs organized
:
1416
No of Youth SHGs
:
82
No of WSHG Trainings
:
1289
No of A& R Trainings
:
1089
EDP Conducted to
:
715 - Groups
Leadership skill Trainings
:
612 - Groups
Vocational Trainings
:
210 - Groups
Awareness Generation Seminars
on social issues
:
1334 - Groups
Total No of Groups
:
1416
Total No of members
:
19824
Total Amount of savings
:
Rs. 51,845,132 .00
Total amount of Internal Lending
:
Rs. 34,512,817.00
Total amount of External lending by programme
:
Rs. 21,486,450.00
Credit Assistance with Banks
:
Rs. 43,541,812.00
% of Recovery
:
100%
Towards sustainability
The Women Self Help Group movement is a major force to break the chain of poverty and the broken chain should not be connected in future. CHANARD has facilitated the WSHGs to form federations at Cluster, Panchayat and Block level with representations of all WSHGs in their respective areas.
CHANARD has facilitated to constitute the following federations:
CLF
:
145
PLF
:
80
BLF
:
5
Amutham Self Help Group’s Federation
The WSHGs promoted by CHANARD felt the need for a separate roof for their guidance, support and development. CHANARD facilitated to form one separate federation for WSHGs named as “Amudham WSHG’S Federation” (registered under TN Societies Registration Act 1975) and is now successfully functioning. The major activities of the federation are
Conducting capacity building, training and Documentation training
Conducting meetings to share their experiences
Assisting to get financial assistance from the Banks and provided access to income Generation
