By Debadutta Dash | Executive Board Member, Sukarya USA
A domestic violence victim, Poonam from Lakshmi SHG in (Gwalpahadi, Gurgaon), has a drunkard husband. Her situation was very grave as her family rents their house and she is the sole breadwinner of the family. She is quite smart, proactive and easy to grasp any new learnings at the Sukarya Center. She understands the importance of education and wants her children to attend a regular school, for which she expressed an urge for a full time work. Her main interest areas are Processing, documentation and marketing modules at the Sukarya Institutional Training sessions. She is now working in the Saathi Masala Project for the full day. “We can’t speak our mind and are invisible in the society but it is not difficult to break this barrier", she says proudly, "I am happy and confident now.”
Further to establishing the spice and cereal processing and packaging unit in the village, women group began working in unit with full motivation and enthusiasm. Group members are tirelessly working to meet the requirement of high standard market and norms & regulations set by the FSSAI [Food safety and standard authority of India]. The best news is that team got the good response from the market and connected with the super market retail chain called NEEDS. Orders are coming up on regular basis, now efforts are being made to receive bulk orders in order to raise the net income of women workers.
Total sale during the quarter [June to August 2017] – INR 260,559
No. of Women associated with unit - 05
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