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Case Study for G20 Disaster Risk Reduction Working Group (CARE India & UNICEF)
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Case Study for G20 Disaster Risk Reduction Working Group (CARE India & UNICEF)

Strengthening Resilience of Vulnerable Households against Shocks: Indo-German Experience with MGNREGS The Enhancing Rural Resilience through Appropriate Development Actions (ERADA) project is implemented... Read More

A Story of Change: How a Specially-Abled Woman Entrepreneur Turned it All Around
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A Story of Change: How a Specially-Abled Woman Entrepreneur Turned it All Around

This story is of a brave individual who chose to display sheer resilience in the face of discrimination, social stigma, and countless obstacles that life threw her way. Born as a dwarf due to a genetic condition, Ms. Anitha is a 23-year-old who earns her bread by working for four hours every day at a local canteen. With her father passing away, Anitha shouldered the r... Read More

Breaking the Shackles of Patriarchy Through Self-Employment
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Breaking the Shackles of Patriarchy Through Self-Employment

Women from rural populations of India are subject to harsh patriarchal practices, barring them from seeking employment opportunities and attaining financial freedom. The life of Rizvana Ben had been no different for a long time. Belonging to the Dabha village from Gujarat, Rizvana is from an orthodox Muslim household. She resides with her husband and two sons. Up unti... Read More

Empowering waste pickers
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Empowering waste pickers

Swatcha Self Help Group and Sri. Chowdeshwari Self Help Group have been formed in Dry Waste Collection Centre, Bellandur, consisting of 9 and 10 members each. Initially formation of those groups was a bit challenging as the Community Resource Persons (CRP) immediately did not get cooperation from the operator of the DWCC for group formation. The CRPs made the opera... Read More

Farmers saviour community seed bank
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Farmers saviour community seed bank

An initiative to provide sustainable livelihoods to Indian farmers Nearly 58% of the Indian population are dependent on agriculture and farming for their livelihood. There are farmers who farm less than 2 hectares of land , and therefore cannot maintain adequate yield and quality of the crop.1 Around 80% of work in agriculture is carried out by women.2 Being... Read More

Every cloud has a silver lining
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Every cloud has a silver lining

With a small piece of land that did not produce enough to feed the family of seven, Tapaswini Manjhi and her husband, Rohit Manjhi, were forced to work as a daily wage laborers in one of the most socially and economically backward districts of Odisha. For them, life was dependent on the daily wage that they would get to sustain the family. The hardships compelled the ... Read More

Self Reliance Successful Lives
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Self Reliance Successful Lives

"It pained me to note that I could not let my children do the things they wanted to do. I could not provide for the tuition fee for my younger son or arrange money so that my elder son could go abroad for work. My financial situation was holding my family back." said Manju Kashyap. 38-year-old Manju lives in Pahanda village, Patan block, Durg district of C... Read More

Sharing hope happiness
COVID - 19 Response

Sharing hope happiness

The COVID – 19 pandemic has had a massive impact not only on the physical and psychological health of people but also on the economic and social well-being as well. Among them, the poor and the marginalized, especially the women and girls, had to face the brunt of the lockdown. 50-year-old Savitri Devi lost her livelihood, and her little savings, staring at hunger i... Read More

A new outlook towards life
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A new outlook towards life

The right support and push at the most opportune moment can change people’s lives. The story of Bela Ben corroborates this belief. Bela Ben (name changed), aged 35 years, lives in Dabha village, Jambusar Block in Bharuch district of Gujarat with her husband and three children. They were landless labourers and faced difficulties on a daily basis to get employment.... Read More

Women lead switch organic cultivation cotton production
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Women lead switch organic cultivation cotton production

The region of Maharashtra, in western India, which relies on its cotton-based agricultural economy, is fraught with several challenges, such as water stress and climate variability. Maklibai is a 35-year-old farmer living with her husband Dinesh and their three children in the village of Bandapipal, located in the Maharashtra region of India. She and her husband ha... Read More

Sustenance through Milk Collection Centre
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Sustenance through Milk Collection Centre

In a bid to build leadership of women in the community, we facilitated the formation of a women’s Self-Help Group (SHG) in Salepur Sangadi village of Jambusar, Gujarat called Jai Swaminarayan Group. The members of this SHG belong to an erstwhile tribal community that migrated from the Sardar Sarovar Dam submergence area of Madhya Pradesh and rehabilitated here. W... Read More

Silage helped increasing income of SHG
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Silage helped increasing income of SHG

Jai Bhatuji is one of the Self-Help Groups (SHG) of Dabha village, located in Jambusar, Gujarat, which has been developed and facilitated by CARE India. After an exposure visit to Zarola in Anand district, Gujarat, Jai Bhathuji SHG members decided to set up a demonstration of silage, until then an unknown term in that area. Silage, usually made from grass or other gre... Read More

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