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SRIJ

AN FOUNDATION

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CL Grant Recipient

Education, 2019

HCL Grant Project Title:

E

ducating the

Women armers for Better Livelihood

Opportunities and Better Income Generation

Srijan oundation engages with marginalized

and socially-excluded communities,

especially women and children, in

Jharkhand. Areas of work encompass

supporting elected women representatives,

safe mobility of women, collectivization

of women, promoting child rights and

preventing child labour, sustainable

agriculture and livelihood promotion, health,

education, food security, and more. e

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aidehi Devi is from Dhipa village, West Singhbhum. Her family was on the verge

of malnutrition, including her pregnant daughter-in-law. Srijan Foundation

under the HCL Grant Project supported Vaidehi Devi with the input of eight

different types of seeds and net for a nutrition garden. Today, she grows a variety of

vegetables including spinach, carrot, radish, okra, sponge gourd and bottle gourd.

She can also feed her daughter-in-law fish, eggs as well as fresh fruits since she is

able to save the money she used to purchase vegetables. Vaidehi has inspired 30 other

women farmers from her village to start nutrition gardens in their backyards.

p

roject has strengthened multiple livelihood

sources by training more than 5,000 women

farmers in sustainable agriculture practices

and livestock management practices

through innovative means including verbal

lessons, demonstrations and video shows.

It has trained 100 Community Resource

Persons for hand-holding support, set

up armers ield Schools for practical

training, promoted community practices

like grain banks, nurseries, machan

technique, mulching, organic pesticides,

nutrition gardens and drudgery reduction at

household level and in the agriculture sector.

Srijan has helped leverage government

schemes and 1,722 women were linked with

the Mukhyamantri Krishi Ashirwad Yojana

and Pradhan Mantri jjwala Gas Yojana.