Manjari Corner
Successful completion of two-day visit to Dholpur for Churi Chatarpura and Churi Ajeetgarh's Village Development Committee members. ₹ 2.51 crore disbursed in credit to our 67 Sakhi SHGs in Credit Linkage Camp organized by Hanuman Van Vikas Samiti in collaboration with Rajasthan Marudhara Gramin Bank. Chandrajyoti Abhiyan launched in collaboration with Piramal Foundation, to spread awareness about Constitution's preamble and fundamental duties in 50 schools across Dholpur. Mega Bank Credit Linkage camp organized in Kalinagar village, Rudrapur, where ₹1.25 crores were disbursed in loans to 101 SHGs. 12 of our Sakhi members from Debari have successfully started their new journey at BPCL Coco Petrol Pump in Udaipur. Successfully concluded a 4-day camp on Avartansheel Kheti that brought together farmers from Tikamgarh, Lalitpur, Mandla, Datia, Udaipur and Nepal.
Sakhi Project Announcement

Sakhi Project Announcement

Aug 12, 2023

We are very much delighted to announce our partnership with Hindustan Zinc Limited for the Sakhi project. Sakhi, the flagship initiative of Hindustan Zinc Limited and implemented by Manjari Foundation, is one of the unique and largest women empowerment programs across India, started in 2016. Sakhi's focus is on building independent women's institutions to bring in rural women towards a productive front, by uniting them and enhancing their collective potential to be the change makers. It also aims to enhance the quality of life in rural areas through women-led development initiatives by promoting sustainable livelihood through micro-financing & enterprise development. Sakhi is on the date associated with 27000+ rural women through 208 village organizations and 7 registered federations. Grooming on soft skills and creating sensitization on gender awareness, financial and digital literacy, mainstreaming in education etc. are core focus areas while creating self-sustainable institutions. Sakhi Project will be implemented in 5 districts (Ajmer, Bhilwara, Chittorgarh, Rajsamand and Udaipur) of Rajasthan and Udham Singh Nagar of Uttrakhand district. In Debari (Udaipur district) Sakhi project is implemented in partnership with Hanuman Van Vikas Samiti.

Sakhi Project facilitated women for financial inclusion women Cumulative saving is 16.42 Cr. and loan disbursement is 85.43 Cr. Internal credit and bank linkages helped Sakhis to create new micro-enterprises as well as expansion of existing ones.  Sakhi women resulted inclusion of 27000 women in the Banking system. Also, 10 collective microenterprises of textiles, spices, pickles, pulses etc are established. Sakhi Haat is one of the modern marketplaces that started to connect customers directly. This one-stop solution is also providing a platform for other rural and traditional handicrafts.