More than 15000 members
Savings of Approx INR 3.5 Crore
Loan Disbursement of Approx INR 20 Crore
324 women were provided financial literacy training by Saath Gramin Trust in the year with the support from Consumer Forum. Through the training women learned about prioritizing savings, understanding debt traps, reducing unnecessary expenses, budgeting, understanding various savings schemes and interest rates, government schemes and services etc.
Scholarships of Rs. 7,500 each was provided to rural girls from the 3 locations of Ankleshwar, Sanand and Bavla to support them to continue their education.
150 RO units were installed in 70+ Aanganwadi’s and 6+ schools of Sanand block of Ahmedabad district. Through this initiative, more than 2,500 children now have access to clean and safe drinking water at their schools. Regular health check-ups will be carried out to monitor the improvement in the health status of children.
Partnership with Unipads reached out to adolescent girls and women from the rural communities to spread awareness on menstrual health and hygiene, safe practices and promoting the use of sanitary pads. Brainstorming sessions were carried out with rural women and adolescent girls to create strategies for increased access and easy availability of sanitary pads in rural areas for the women.
With the aim to mitigate myths related to Covid 19 and precautionary measures a series of awareness activities were carried out with approximately 3,000 women in partnership with Saath Mahila Savings and Credit Cooperative Society. 6,000 masks were distributed in the community with support from Milaap