helpwomen

MISSION

CHHASE is a non-profit non-government Organization working within a gender and development framework. It Endeavour’s to keep in touch with the cultural roots of India. CHHASE programmes involve the community with the alternatives towards community-based development. Ultimately, it is envisioned that advocacy towards gender equality is practiced among community. CHHASE dreams for secure and financial aspect of women and girls where women and girls get together to share and learn about cultural life ways and socialization. Social science also affirms that a woman’s place in the society marks the level of civilization.

BACK GROUND

Many are sinking deeper into poverty and needs are growing as crisis spreads: many women, girls in our target area are uneducated and school dropout at young age. Poorest among are struggling to put food on table. Many postpone children education just to keep their families fed. They put off health care needs to pay basic utilities. They postpone dreams or stop saving money because there's nothing extra to save. The secret of training is to empower, restore and regenerate women and girls.

When women are poor, families and communities cannot be strong. Women living in poverty face greater challenges in earning a steady income, educating and feeding their children, and escaping violence.

More than ten lakh people around the world live on less than ten rupees a day— and women makes majority of the world’s poorest citizens. Women face much number of economic barriers in developing countries, such as unequal low wages, bad working conditions, property rights, and lack of access to credit.

Problem   

Women and girls do not obtain a regular salaried employment with welfare benefits like workers in the organized sector. There is an urgent need to organize women and girl workers for gainful employment. Any developmental activity strengthens a woman’s bargaining power and also offers new alternatives. There are still millions of women and girls who remain in poverty and are exploited, despite their long hours of hard labor. It is our social responsibility to bring the deprived and hapless women and girls into the mainstream, so as to enable them to avail the new opportunities that are developing with the ongoing economic reforms in our country.

Our solution

CHHASE looks forward to generate confidence in women and girls by further strengthening their qualities of leadership, their self-confidence, their bargaining power and their representation in policy making.

Poor and illiterate women and girls from rural areas are imparted training in leadership, management, accounting, crafts, textile designing, healthcare and literacy. The literate young women and girls in villages shall be given free computer training through computer centers set up by CHHASE. Their strength of solidarity, which is above caste and creed, helps them support each other in adversity. Through CHHASE, these rural women and girls can experience the joy of success with collective action. Today’s woman and girls needs to step forward and initiate development projects, better village governance, awareness and quality life. With the financial support and entrepreneurship and education, women and girls can get opportunities to break the cycle of poverty.

Our Objectives

• Provision of education facilities for drop out girls, due to economical barrier. 
• After-school programs for girls. 
• Provision of income skills to girls and women.
• Creating awareness among oppressed women and girls about their rights in society.
• Giving self-confidence to these disadvantaged women and girls by providing them with skills which will enable them to avail jobs opportunities in industries or set up their own micro business.
• Empowering poor girls of age between 18-35 years, with stitching,embroidery  training and computer trainings.
• Provision of marketing skills (Survey, production and sales)
• self-help group (SHG)formation and micro loan for girls and women.
• Educating women and girls about the health issues and their healthy life through conducting seminars and workshops.
• Life cover ( insurance)

1. Girls’ education

        The benefits of girl’s education go beyond higher productivity for 50 percent of the population. More educated girl’s also tend to be healthier, participate more in the formal labor market, earn more income, have fewer children, and provide better health care and education to their children, all of which eventually improve the well-being of all individuals and lift households out of poverty. These benefits also transmit across generations, as well as to their communities at large. CHHASE will provide scholarships to 500 under privileged girls to continue their education, who are at risk of drop out due to economical barrier.

 2. After-school programs

After school program will support girls’ education and develop and enhance their chances of progressing to or succeeding in secondary school. They can provide one-on- one mentoring and ensure that after-school hours are dedicated to study and not to part-time jobs or family obligations. The programs can also provide supplementary training beyond the formal curriculum for the development of skills for social and civic participation—in the process teaching basic health, reproductive health, and financial literacy. CHHASE will provide evening tuitions 500 poor and marginal girls to improve their education status.

 3.Provision of income skills

Girl’s in India need to acquire remunerative and marketable skills which are not taught at home, such as facility with computers, fluency in an internationally spoken language, financial skills, and knowledge of social systems. New methods to promote interactive and collaborative learning can help develop critical thinking and decision making skills and instill a habit of lifelong learning—capacities that will equip girls for a rapidly changing world.

• Empowering disadvantaged women and girls through imparting skills of cutting, stitching, needle work, dress making, embroidery and computer training.
• Improving the economic and social status women and girls in local society
• Improving the vocational and professional skills of women and girls, especially the domestic workers living in slum areas.
• Providing computer training to literate girl girl children, for self employment.

Training programmes for rural women and girls comprise the following:

Impact

• Social conditions of women, girls and their families will be improved
• Awareness of their status in the society which will strengthen their confidence
• Improved economic status of oppressed and marginalized women
• Job opportunities for women and girls in garment industries and offices
• Small business opportunities
• Family uplift socially, educationally and financially
• Healthy society
• They can able to send their children to school.

4. self-help group (SHG)formation

A self-help group (SHG) is a village-based financial intermediary usually composed of between 10-20 local girls and women. Members make small regular savings contributions over a few months until there is enough capital in the group to begin lending. Funds may then be lent back to the members or to others in the village for any purpose. In India, many SHGs are 'linked' to banks for the delivery of microcredit.

Self-Help Group (SHG) is a registered or unregistered group of micro finance having homogenous social and economic backgrounds; voluntarily coming together to save regular small sums of money, mutually agreeing to contribute to a common fund and to meet their emergency needs on the basis of mutual help. Also it is a group of people who pool in their resources to become financially stable by taking loans from the money collected by that group and by making everybody of that group self-employed. The group members use collective wisdom and peer pressure to ensure proper end-use of credit and timely repayment. This system eliminates the need for collateral  and is closely related to that of Solidarity lending widely used by microfinance institutions. To make the book-keeping simple enough to be handled by the members, flat interest rate are used for most loan calculations.

5.Life cover (Insurance)

Micro credit coming under severe pressure for a variety of reasons, including the strong-arm tactics employed by micro finance institutions in rural areas, CHHASE decided to encourage SHG members to unique group life insurance scheme against loans. This low-cost loan insurance product would minimize the risk to SHG members.

There have been plenty of deaths of SHG members in a year in the age-group of 18 and 59 years, leaving outstanding loans to the families. Such untimely deaths not only impoverished the families dependent on them, but also destabilized the SHGs by putting unsustainable burden on other members.

100’s of  girls and women seek  education scholarships and training at CHHASE training centers to gain employment and future stability. CHHASE needs your help to provide education and Skills trainings to more women and girls.