1- Empowerment through Bandhej work

Ms.Firdosh kasima is the resident of Madina colony in Jodhpur district of Rajasthan. She is old aged lady. She is an aanganwari karyakerta since from 1984.She has four children and her spouse is a meter inspector in electricity department. Under her guidance total 44 SHGs are formed. She convinces other ladies of her village by door to door to form SHGs and earn money by developing own enterprise, instead of wasting your time. Earlier her economic condition was not good, only by Rs.4000/month. She had to manage her big families. Then she thought to start a bandhej work, lahenga, etc. She started earning from this work.
  She convinced other nearby ladies to do work together. Then one SHGs name Adarsh formed in 2001. Slowly 4-5 SHGs formed and they are engaged for the same work. They made Bandhej cloth in stock, sell them in Exhibition and earn money. Exhibition occurs 3 times in a year. In Jodhpur exhibition occur on 1st January and in Jaipur it is on 1st March. They sold their homemade products only in exhibition and their neighborhoods according to order.

THE JOURNEY OF A MICRO ENTERPRENEUR

Lela and Kamala are the resident of Bedla village in Udaipur district of Rajasthan. Both the ladies are middle aged belong to backward class &economically are also in BPL category. The spouse of both the ladies were illiterate, unemployed and without any assets. Evidently both of them came from extremely poor households who hardly had any means of reasonable subsistence. Ironically both the ladies were introduced to the concept of self help group (SHG) by Ms. Mamta Chauhan, Sathin of DWCD (Department of women and child development). They were totally dazed when they came to know the concepts and utility of a SHG.

They immediately decided to become a member of Janki Mata SHG in their village. The SHG is 9 month old, had 10 number of members, all contributing Rs. 50.00 amount of saving per month.
One of the immediate benefits accrued to Lela and Kamala was by way of their skill development. They got unique opportunity to learn the skill of tailoring, making of artificial jewellary and other entrepreneur skills. Their membership in the group and the inputs from DWCD imbibed in them the traits of self confidence, motivation and entrepreneurship instinct.
Hence they decided to connectively open a tea stall/restaurant in their village because they felt this could be remunerative business. In order to open the tea stall they received a capital of about Rs. 6000.00. They borrowed this amount from their SHGs which was extended by the group at the rate of 1.25% per month to be repaid in 12th this month. They hired shop at Rs.500 per month.

3-Dona making: A successful Microenterprise
Dona Making leads to Socio-economic empowerment

Suraj a middle aged lady of Bijanwas village in Udaipur district of Rajasthan has a family of four children, mother-in-law and her spouse Mr. Karan Singh. Karan Singh was a labour contractor earning his livelihood from the booming business of construction taking place in the district. Albeit due to his ill fit he got struck with a serious ailment. Due to his indisposition he could not undertake his job and was soon jobless without any sustainable income. This lead to precarious condition of his family wherein it became difficult for them to survive.  Suraj Kuwar is lady with multidimensional personality. She was not only dynamic responsive but also innovative, she had the talent to make various consumer items like carry bag made up of clothes, earthen stoves, stitching and tailoring etc.

She was able to earn responsible amount of income from her multiferous activity. It was only her entrepreneurial instinct which decided for taking up the business of Dona making.

Dona is made out of a paper. The special paper is moulded with the help of an electrically operated machine to give a shape of bowl which is used for various activities.  For this enterprise she uses to collect the raw material from a local vendor Keemat Ram. She  goes 2 times in one month for bringing raw material for dona making. She expense her own money Rs.15 on transportation, labour charge is Rs.45/- .  After making the Dona she is paid a sum of Rs. 49.00 for every 1000 Dona made by the same vendor who supplies the raw material. She belongs to Durga SHG was form in 25 june 2008. Till date she has made total 10,000 dona and her saving is Rs. 350/- . This way Suraj is able to earn.