Women's entrepreneurship

A Project ‘Improvement of the quality of life of rural women through entrepreneurship development’ was implemented in village Koliyon ki Dhani in Block Jamwaramgarh of district Jaipur in collaboration with Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe in Rajasthan e. V. (HSHR), Germany with support from the Foundation of Development Cooperation of the Federal State of Baden-Wuerttemberg (SEZ).with support from HSHR and SEZ. Following were the major outcomes of the project:

• Fifty women entrepreneurs of backward castes received training in weaving durry (handwoven cotton mats)
• Skill of the women artisans was developed in developing new designs of cotton mats
• Income of the women artisans increased substantially
• Opportunities of jobs increased for entrepreneurial women of the area
• Health problems of the women entrepreneurs and their family members addressed

Looking at the success of the project and scope for training to more rural women SEZ approved another project for training 50 women in embroidery in village Pawata, which was started in January 2017