Empowerment through Loans

“AmritaSREE gave me a home, lent me money for the marriage of my daughter and now, I am taking another loan for my daughter’s delivery.” — Sunithi “Owning a home is the dream of every Kerala woman, for this means that nobody can tell her to move out. She is a homemaker. To be a […]

Awareness and Training

Health awareness campaigns are conducted throughout the villages. Awareness classes on Health, Sanitation and Menstrual hygiene are conducted, and Saukhyam cloth pads distributed. The people of the village, the children in particular, are taught the importance of properly washing their hands. Awareness on family planning encourages women to plan their families, as a survey showed […]

Adult Literacy Classes

Adult literacy classes were conducted for four months for SHG members in the tribal areas of Kerala, Orissa and Uttarakhand. It is being taken to many other villages across India. With the use of tablets and other teaching aids, the women mastered the alphabet and learnt numbers, addition and subtraction. They were taught to write and […]