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Manjari wins the 'Excellence in CSR and sustainability award for women empowerment, at the 10th National CSR Leadership Congress & Awards. कृषि विज्ञान केंद्र नौगांव जिला छतरपुर में उद्यमियों के सशक्तिकरण और उद्यमिता विकास कार्यक्रम का हुआ आयोजन. Discussion with Sakhi Members and CSR Team to take up joint livelihood activity. जावर में रखा गया बकरी पालन प्रशिक्षण हेतु जागरूकता कार्यक्रम, 50 महिलाओं ने भाग लेकर प्रशिक्षण के बारे में ली जानकारी. Chittaurgarh: Two-day training program for 'Digital Sakhi' under the WCCI project marks successful completion. बाल-विवाह को लेकर महिलाओं के साथ सखी चौपाल का आयोजन, कैलाश सत्यार्थी चिल्ड्रंस फाउंडेशन और मंजरी फाउंडेशन के सहयोग से - हिंदुस्तान एक्सप्रेस. ललितपुर के मढ़ाबरा ब्लॉक में वितरित किया गया बांस हेंडीक्राफ्ट टूल किट. Manjari's efforts to build farm ponds bearing results in Bundelkhand. धौलपुर मंजरी फाउंडेशन के सोने का गुर्जा रोड, सरमथुरा स्थित जीआरसी (Goat Resource Center) में बकरी किसान बिना किसी बिचौलिये के कभी भी बकरी बेच और खरीद सकते है, यही नहीं गोट रिसोर्स सेंटर में आप अपनी बीमार बकरी के लिए चिकित्सक की सलाह और जरूरी टीकाकरण भी करवा सकते हैं. दरीबा लोकेशन के नारी एकता ग्राम संग़ठन की मासिक बैठक की गई जिसमें ग्राम संग़ठन के सदस्यों के द्वारा समूहों को सेफ्टी ट्रेनिंग दी गई.

Indo-Mali

An Indo-Mali Partnership

The Indo-Mali project has enabled us to successfully replicate the Dholpur model of institution-building for livelihoods advancement in Logo Kayes, Mali.

In 2016, cross-organizational stakeholders from Camide and Virtue Ventures visited Manjari Foundation in India to study our model of women’s empowerment and rural economic development. Impressed by the on-ground impact they witnessed, Camide invited Manjari Foundation to partner with them to execute Yeredme - a groundbreaking pilot for women's empowerment.

The objective was to see how Manjari's model for social transformation could be applied to solve challenges in the West African context.

During the visit, the Mali team experienced India’s powerful, peer-driven, Self-Help Group (SHG) ecosystem and witnessed how the Manjari team integrated the SHG functionality into its livelihood development agenda, thereby creating its own unique SHG model.

The Camide team shared its willingness to replicate the same model in the Kayes region of Mali. A team from Manjari Foundation, it was decided, would visit Mali to understand the context and explore the opportunity for partnership.

A year later, the Manjari team, comprising technical staff and SHG members, arrived in rural Mali.

Thus, 2017 marked the beginning of a true south-south collaboration, whereby the Indian women’s SHG model was being adapted to the Malian context and implemented through a powerful, experiential, peer-learning, and peer role-modeling methodology.

To our knowledge, this is a unique initiative, and no similar program had ever been executed in West Africa.

1800 women were organized in 160 SHGs, 12 VOs, and one federation. An interactive map of the current groups and villages is available at: http://go.camide.org/cartegydlogo

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'Manjari’ literally translates to “seed of Tulsi”, a sacred Indian plant. When women mobilise themselves to form institutions, they are empowered to sow their own ‘seeds of change’.