Peer leader girls, popularly called Pragati Sathi, are going to spread message on socio-economic themes so that the gullible slum dwellers would keep themselves away from the evil traps of ponzi firms and investing their hard-earned income in fake nonbanking financing companies.
Aiming to empower adolescent girls from slums of Bhubaneswar Town Centre District (BTCD) through life skill training, the third-phase three-day training for Pragati Sathi focused mainly on financial literacy and safe saving options available for people. The training concluded at the Centre for Youth and Social Development (CYSD) on Friday.
The girls were provided information on various form of savings, requirements and benefits of savings, ways to ensure regular savings, safe and secure saving options and schemes, technical issues related to life insurance, health insurance and available Government schemes for formation of self-help groups (SHGs).
The 30-member group of girls from the slums under the has undergone skill training earlier in two phases under the Socially Smart Bhubaneswar Project, which is a joint initiative of Bhubaneswar Smart City limited (BSCl), Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) and UNFPA to strengthen social components of the Bhubaneswar Smart City Proposal. The girls selected from the slums for the training have been identified by project implementation partner, Humara Bachpan.
The other topics included in the training were menstrual management, understanding reasons for child marriage and its consequences besides steps to prevent it.