Sustainable community development by empowering grassroots women as leaders and entrepreneurs.

Government, USAID, Huairou Commission, MISEREOR, Habitat for Humanity, Tata Trust, Godrej, Vodafone.

Prema Gopalan; Adolph Furtado

Beneficiary Spend:

Average: 83.5%

Highest: 98.7%

Lowest: 52.8%

Income:

Average: Rs2 cr

Highest: Rs10 cr

Lowest: Rs1 lac

How much to donate

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Empowerment of women as leaders and entrepreneurs

• Swayam Shikshan Prayog (SSP) aims to promote empowerment of women as leaders and entrepreneurs through self-help groups, social enterprises and community led initiatives. SSP acts as a facilitator of women leaders to manage savings, credit and micro-businesses, address local risk, and build community resilience.
• They serve marginalized communities through a fraternity of self-help groups, a microfinance institution that offers financial services to women-led businesses, rural schools of entrepreneurship for women, and a market aggregator that offers dedicated services to last-mile business women. They offer skills training, clean energy training, livelihood generation, disaster management, microfinance, rural marketing and health-enhancing opportunities to rural women.
• Impact: i) Improved quality of life to over one million low-income households. ii) 7,500+ women trained as entrepreneurs with 33% increase in their annual income. iii) 44,000+ women accessed Rs666 millions of micro-loans. iv) 1,200+ clean energy entrepreneurs. vi) 33% increase in personal hygiene & community sanitation.