Our Livelihood promotion programmes have been assisting the marginalized communities in exploring new forms of income generation and linking the community with their entitled benefits. Interventions at different levels are explored to help the communities overcome the livelihood challenges. Landless and land owning families are supported depending on their needs and necessities. We have initiated a number of income generation programmes that has benefitted over 800 families directly, till date.
Goat Bank:
The Goat Bank initiative was part of Income Generation support to the Women from marginalized communities. The aim was to provide an initial support by providing goat kids to selected members in the self help group. 200 kids were distributed among the self help group in the first phase of the programme. The group decided the recipients on the basis of the family situations and need of every members in the group. Selected members received the kids with conditions that they will take good care of the kids and when these kids turn into goats and start delivering young ones, one kid will be handed over to the next member in the group who did not receive in the first phase. At a time a goat gives birth to around 3-5 kids. The cycle of sharing a kid from the first delivery of the goat continued until all the members of the group have received atleast a goat.