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Funded
Rs.1,34,725
Required
Rs.1,05,274
Ranita And Group
Sega Road Branch, Manipur
Purpose : To pay the school fees, private tuition fee, exam fee and buy study materials for their children
Ranita resides in residing in the Imphal-West district of Manipur. She has a family of 4 members. She has her own business and manages to accumulate an amount of Rs 22,000 per month. She runs a group of 4 members who work hard and wish to continue their children's education. Education is a very vital tool that is used in the contemporary world to succeed. It is important because it is used to mitigate most of the challenges faced in life. The knowledge that is attained through education helps open doors to a lot of opportunities for better prospects in career growth. She realises this significance and wants her child to continue with the education to improve the standard of living of the family and secure the future. She knows that her child will be able to sustain the entire family in the near future and not be dependent on attaining the resources for survival. This would ensure a better life for the entire family and also the community. However, with the growing cost of education, it is very difficult for her to manage the household expenses and continue with the education of her child. All the members of the group face this trouble
Funded
Rs.15,000
Required
Rs.29,84,550
Dolan Santra And Group
Shantipur, West Bengal
Purpose : to buy threads in bulk and make as well as sell more number of sarees
Dolan is a 29-year-old married woman residing in Nadia district of West Bengal. She has a family of 3 members. She assists her husband and manages to accumulate a household income of an amount of INR.9,500 per month. She is the leader of a big group of 65 women.With a better income generation, she can help in the running of the household and also cater to her family better. This will give her a sense of financial interdependence making her a valuable part of the community. with the growing expenses in the market additional earnings will curb her financial constraints improving the living standards of her family. This will also give her the liberty to assist her children's education funding and meet her own needs in day-to-day life. However, her current situation is not allowing her to fulfill her dream of expanding the handloom business. The other members of her group also wish to expand their businesses and earn stability in life.
Funded
Rs.3,97,076
Required
Rs.3,52,923
Rina Das And Group
Karandighi, West Bengal
Purpose : to purchase seeds, fertilisers and other raw materials for the cultivation of paddy and vegetables
Rina is a 40-year-old married woman residing in Uttar Dinajpur district of West Bengal. She has a household of 4 members, which includes 1 school-going girl child. Her family is involved in the business of paddy cultivation and she has a monthly household income of INR 9,000. The monthly household expenses amount to INR 5,000. Rina is the leader of a group of 28 women, all of whom are involved in cultivation of paddy and vegetables.
Funded
Rs.3,18,877
Required
Rs.1,81,122
Arti Rani Mahato And Group
Karandighi, West Bengal
Purpose : to purchase seeds, fertilizers etc. in order to expand the existing farming business.
Arti Rani (sitting at the first row, second from the right-hand side) is a 43-year-old woman from Uttar Dinajpur, West Bengal, with a family of four members and a monthly household income of INR 9,000. She has formed a self-help group, named Sabuj Arti, with 22 other women belonging from her village. These women are extremely hardworking and driven to better their livelihood. They cultivate paddy and a variety of vegetable crops in their fields.
Funded
Rs.20,930
Required
Rs.1,39,070
Tamilselvi And Group
Kulithalai, Tamil Nadu
Purpose : to buy a cow and sell and milk products
Tamilselvi is a 21-year-old married woman residing in Karur district of Tamil Nadu. She has a family of 2 members. She is a working woman and manages to accumulate a household income of an amount of INR.15,000 per month. She leads a group of 8 women who are driven to establish their own lives.She realises that an increase in her income levels and control over income will ensure greater levels of economic independence. It will give her an independent means of generating wealth and becoming self-reliant in a society. This will generate benefits not only for her, as an individual woman but also her family and community as a whole through collective action for development. However, she is unable to meet her desire of expanding a dairy business due to financial constraints. Like her, the other members of her group also wish to expand their respective businesses.
Funded
Rs.19,000
Required
Rs.2,30,900
Thanalakshmi And Group
Nannilam, Tamil Nadu
Purpose : to purchase cow, cow fodder and set up a cow-shed in order to start a dairy business .
Thanalakshmi (second member from left, the lady in a green sari) is a 46-year-old woman from the village of Manthai, in Thiruvarur, situated in the state of Tamil Nadu. She is engaged in agricultural activities. She has a family of 3 members including a young daughter and a monthly household income of INR 28,500.She has founded a JLG group of five women in her village and has named it Meenam Shakthi. These women wish to be independent and contribute to their household income by setting up a dairy business. They want to buy a cow each and sell dairy products like milk, butter, cheese, curd, etc to increase the monthly household income and savings.
Funded
Rs.18,988
Required
Rs.1,01,012
Vasuki And Group
from Nannilam, Tamil Nadu
Purpose : to purchase more cows to expand dairy business
Vasuki is a 43-year-old married woman residing in the Thiruvarur district of Tamil Nadu. She has a family of 5 members and three school-going children. She wants to be a dairy farmer. She has a monthly family income roughly around INR 28,500 per month. She has formed and is leading a group of 4 members who, just like Vasuki, work hard to support their families and save for their secured futures.She realizes that an increase in her and her friend's monthly family incomes and their ability to save from it will ensure greater levels of economic independence. It will give them an alternate means of generating wealth and becoming financially stable in society. This will generate benefits not only for her, as an individual woman, but also her family and community as a whole through collective action for development.However, with the rising cost of living, she and the other women in the group are unable to save anything from their present income. Since she and the other women in the group run the household, a higher standard of living will ensure better governance along with a healthier and more prosperous future for the families and children. She has applied for a loan of INR 1,20,000 from Velicham Finance Private Limited, one of Milaap field partners, for the purchase of cows, so that she and the others can start rearing them and selling their milk, butter, cheese, paneer and so on for a financially stable future.
Funded
Rs.1,04,460
Required
Rs.2,55,540
Sunita And Group
from Kwakeithel Branch, Manipur
Purpose : to be able to pay for their children's primary and secondary education costs for their better future
Sunita is a 40-year-old married woman and a mother of two school-going children. She lives in a small village in Imphal-West district, Manipur. She is engaged in small business and her family monthly income is Rs. 23,000. The income is not enough for all the household expenses along with the education costs of both her children. She wishes to fulfill all the dreams of her children but is worried due to the lack of proper savings. She is a part of a six members group who have similar issues. Due to a lack of proper capital, they are not able to fund their children's education costs.Sunita and the other members understand the importance of education in the present day. They know that it develops a perspective of looking at life. They understand that being educated brings in respect and helps build opinions and points of view on things in life. This would be good not only for the children and their immediate families but also the community and society they live in.
Funded
Rs.1,03,818
Required
Rs.1,96,181
Mangolnganbi And Group
from Kwakeithel Branch, Manipur
Purpose : to pay for their children's higher education costs and help them acheive their dreams
Mangolnganbi is a 53-year-old married woman residing in the Imphal-West district of Manipur. She lives with her husband and three school-going children. She is a homemaker and manages the household income and expenditures. She is part of a 5-member group that, just like her, strives to support their families and save diligently.Women are aware of the importance of education in the present-day world. It will give their children the intellect and confidence to represent themselves to the world. It would lead to a means of becoming self-reliant for them in society. This will also generate benefits, not only for their children as individuals but also for their families and communities as a whole, through collective action for development.
Funded
Rs.99,450
Required
Rs.2,00,550
Ibemcha And Group
from Sega Road Branch, Manipur
Purpose : to purchase school supplies and pay school fees
Ibemcha is a 35-year-old married woman from the Imphal West district of Manipur. She has a family of 5 members and an income of INR 25,000, which barely makes their ends meet. She is a part of a group of mothers of young students who have realized the importance of a good education. But their low family incomes cannot sustain their children's high educational aspirations in life.So she and her friends have formed a group of 5 members to take up an education loan of INR 3,00,000 from Chanura, one of Milaap's field partners. The children are aware of the importance of education in the present world. It will help build their intellect and confidence to represent themselves to the world. It would lead to a means of becoming self-reliant for them in society. This will also generate benefits, not only for the children as individuals but also for their families and communities as a whole, through collective action for development.
