‘SAHAS’ Making Women Self-Reliant programme works with women living in villages. By forming SHGs and collectives, they are provided knowledge and skills to save money, access micro credit, engage in income generating activities and become agents of change.

Women living in rural areas of Meerut districts of Uttar Pradesh have little control over their lives or in decision making matters. Dependency on male members limits their own agency within the social and familial setting. Dependency on male members of the family was observed in almost every sphere of their lives. In part, women’s low status in the family and lack of decision-making was ascribed to her near total economic and social dependency on men.

The following activites are conducted in the programme:

• Women role in nation- building
• Steps: Ideation to commercialization
• Business Under Rs.50,000/-
• Government scheme for women entrepreneurs
• Contest: Advertisement Making