Women Empowerment

Skills, savings groups and income for women in tribal and nomadic families.

Umred, Bhivapur, Hingna and Kalmeshwar talukas, and Besa

Since 2006 NiViM has worked with women's self-help groups (small savings groups) in Umred and nearby talukas. Women learn skills that earn money, like making products from cow dung and eco-friendly diyas, and they lead village work on health, food and farming.

What we do

Train self-help groups in skills and small business (with NABARD support, 2006 to 2008).
A skill centre at NETRAVAN where women and farmers learn to make cow-dung products (opened 11 October 2020).
Workshops on eco-friendly Ganesh idols and diyas, and fairs to sell what the groups make.
Health, hygiene and anti-tobacco camps for women and families.
Work with Pardhi nomadic women on new ways to earn a living, since 2011.

For CSR teams: fits Schedule VII (iii) empowering women of the Companies Act, 2013.

A training session for village women, December 2024.

On the ground

150women trained, 12 of them started their own businessFY 2023-24
23tribal women started a farmers' company togetherFY 2023-24
98village women made 16 products from cow dungFY 2020-21
2006self-help group work beganSince

Figures from NiViM's annual activity reports. See the reports.

From the field

**Fig. 2**Training in cow-dung products at NETRAVAN.

**Fig. 3**Self-help group women at a product fair.

**Fig. 4**Eco-friendly diyas made by group members.

**Fig. 5**A village women's meeting in Umred.

Fund women empowerment work around Umred.

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