Empower 500 remote village women as entrepreneurs

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Summary

Train support & establish 500 marginal rural women as sustainable entrepreneurs thereby improving their fast eroding socio-economic status and making them role models for other women

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

The status of women in villages is fast eroding by migration of spouses to towns. Remote villages of UP & Assam in India will be the focus. Drishtee will scout, train and support (through microcredit) disadvantaged women & make them part of its network of over 4000 to provide the community needed products & services, particularly health. Besides themselves the entire community would benefit by access to health and other needed products. These women would also become role models for other

Activities

Drishtee starts with community sensitization & invokes women, with a burning desire to come up. Then builds capacity of these, simultaneously building backend operations like supply chain for product /service delivery or doctors for health.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $350
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $499,650
Total Funding Goal: $500,000

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This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

The project would serve over 1,000,000 rural people Women entrepreneurs creates a huge social impact, in rural India. They create income for their families, provide needed services to their villages and serve as role models

Project Message

“Being a girl from a small village in India, none could have even imagined me working as an entrepreneur at any point of time in my life."
- Garima Devi, A Drishtee Woman Entrepreneur in UP, India.

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Siddhartha Shankar,
CEO
Drishtee
A-11, Gr Floor, Sector-2,
Noida, UP 201301
India
+91 120 4661000/1077
Email:

Project Sponsor

Acumen Fund

Organization

Drishtee
A-11, Ground Floor
Sector 2
Noida, Uttar Pradesh 201301
India
91-120-4661000
www.drishtee.com

Learn more about Drishtee and the project team.


Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in India and can also be found under Economic Development.

For more information about India, read the Human Development Report on India or the Wikipedia entry for India.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on October 01, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on September 13, 2008.

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