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Indian women fighting against female infanticide To see more go to www.youtube.com Follow us on Facebook (goo.gl or Twitter (www.twitter.com An Indian proverb says raising a daughter is like watering your neighbour’s garden and the burden of having girls means many are killed at birth. We follow the difficult lives of those who survive the practice. Twenty seven percent of Indians live below the poverty line and as a women, this economic status brings a life of enmity. A bride’s parents must provide a dowry which often bankrupts the family. As a result female infanticide is a widespread tradition: “We accept the first girl, the second should be killed, then the third will be a son.” But now the women are fighting back by forming self-help groups which offer a range of programmes from skills training, to saving and loan schemes. It’s all in the hope that through giving women a more constructive role in society more girls will be saved. March 2012

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India – Faces – Rural women driving their own change 1


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Rural women in their richly coloured saris meeting as members of self-help groups (SHGs).

Within their SHGs, these women now access micro-finance loans, hold their own savings and start successful micro- and small-scale businesses.

Their newfound confidence and authority shows clearly in their faces and the many questions they ask and how they now drive the change agenda in their villages.

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India – Colours of India – Brightly clad SHG marching despite the rain


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Self Help Group women in rural Kanchipuram showing them solidarity, and pride in group saris and braving the heavy rain to raise awareness of women’s rights. Despite the rain, the colour and diversity were amazing.

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Members of Nthambo Murimi Mwaro (Nthambo’s Best Farmer) Self-help Group proudly display information about quality protein maize (QPM) trial plots at a farmer field day on 24 July 2006 in the village of Kathaka Kaome in Embu district, Kenya. As well as seeing mature, healthy QPM in the field, the 180 participating farmers learned from self-help group members about the new QPM varieties, how to grow them, and their nutritional benefits.

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Evening meeting of the Women’s Self Help Group Tambhol, Mahaharashtra, India.


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Evening meeting of the Women’s Self Help Group Tambhol, Mahaharashtra. Angelika Stauder in the back, middle, and the Mayor of Tambhol, Kiran Mane, in the purple sari to her right.

Tambhol, Maharashtra, India.

Photo by Dan Tunstall, World Resources Institute, 2006.

The organic farm of Kibera


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Left to right: Victor Matioli, Al-Amin Ibrahim, Ali Mohamed and Khalid Ramadhan, from the Youth Reform Self Help Group of Makina Kibera at their organic farm in Kibera.

A few nice self help images I found:

India – Faces – rural women from a SHG


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One of the women we work with, enrolled in an Self Help Group.

I tried to enter, but I didn’t know how to open the door.


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(transl. self-help)

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India – Faces – Rural women driving their own change 2


Image by mckaysavage
Rural women in their richly coloured saris meeting as members of self-help groups (SHGs).

Within their SHGs, these women now access micro-finance loans, hold their own savings and start successful micro- and small-scale businesses.

Their newfound confidence and authority shows clearly in their faces and the many questions they ask and how they now drive the change agenda in their villages.

www.hihseed.org/

Good governance and self help groups

SELF HELP GROUP AS AN EFFECTIVE STRATEGY AND DOABLE APPROACH TO EMPOWER WOMEN IN INDIA

Prof. D.Sambangi

Head, Department of Social Work, Kodaikanal Christian College, Tamil Nadu, India 

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THE WOMEN EMPOWERMENT