Reducing Underlying Risk Factors
India
In India, some Self Help Groups have been provided with livestock such as goats and
cows for micro credit. Where necessary, the women are provided with extra skills in
livestock management and then the profits that are generated from the sale of milk
and other products are placed back in the general savings fund. The women then
communally decide whether to distribute the profits or put them back into
maintaining or expanding the herd. They also decide whether to loan some of the
fund to members for personal use. In Bhadrak, Orissa SHGs have collectively saved
Rs 20,614 and subsequently have attracted a Rs 20,000 loan from the State Bank of
India under a Government scheme.
“The happiest part of DC working with us is the women coming out of their homes
and forming a group to help themselves” Head of Judiya Village, Rajasthan.