ChildFund India provided nearly 500 tribal women skills training in the key areas of leadership, community entrepreneurship, financial planning and poultry management under the project –“P2P - Poverty to Prosperity” supported by the Citi Foundation’s ‘India Innovation Grant Program’ (IIGP).
These trained tribal women aged between 18 to 24 years and from low income communities located in 20 villages across Jhabua, Dhar and Alirajpur districts in Madhya Pradesh were handed out poultry as well as the support to build poultry sheds on completion of their 6 month programme.
The event attended by distinguished dignitaries- MP Kantilal Bhuria, MlA Shantilal Bilwal, Jhabua Collector Ashish Saxena, CEO Anurag Choudhri, Superintendent of Police Mahesh Chandra Jain, District Panchayat president Kawalawati Bhuria, Public Affairs Officer Debasis Ghosh, Citi India and Neelam Makhijani, Country Director & CEO, ChildFund India had almost allthe1000 project beneficiaries and technical partner organisations in full attendance.
The highlight of the event was the personal account by two of the latest beneficiaries who shared their experiences as well as future plans for managing and expanding their poultry farming, post the completion of the program.
A recipient of the Citi Foundation’s ‘2016 India Innovation Grant Program’, Project –‘P2P - Poverty to Prosperity aims at addressing economic livelihood opportunities among low income women, by addressing the local economic livelihood problem of the area.
low fertility of land and soil erosion, coupled with scarcity of rainfall, forces the ‘Bhils’ (a Tribal Community), to migrate out of the region in search of alternate livelihoods, where they mostly end up working as low paid laborers.