Strengthening rural women
Building resilient communities
Empowering Rural Women Through Sustainable Livelihoods
At Lovedale, we believe that when a woman is empowered, an entire community is uplifted. Our rural livelihood initiatives are designed to provide women with not just tools, but also dignity, independence, and a pathway to long-term stability.
One of our key programs focuses on economic empowerment through the distribution of vegetable vending carts and sewing machines to women from underprivileged backgrounds. These tools are more than just equipment they are a means to earn, grow, and lead.
Vegetable Vending Carts
Lovedale provides sturdy, mobile vending carts to rural women, enabling them to sell fresh vegetables in nearby markets and neighborhoods. This initiative:
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Helps women generate daily income with minimal investment.
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Encourages local produce marketing and self-reliance.
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Reduces their dependence on exploitative middlemen.
Distribution of sewing machines
A Livelihood program supporting 200 women every year
Need Assessment & Problem Statement:
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Lack of skills training opportunities’ among young women is a common issue. Often, due to socio norms and financial crisis, they are unable to undertake vocational and skill trainings in the expensive training centers.
House wife women depend on the traditional work like housekeeping, collecting fodder and fuel wood to cattle and to earn income. Some of them do casual labor work but it produce poor earning which is not sufficient to arrange meal twice daily. This impact on the health of women. These are the women from Underprivileged community they have not any skill and nor secure their livelihood.
However, due to lack of vocational training facilities and awareness, women never offered these techniques to create their micro enterprises in a profitable manner. Women mainly undertaking local workload to generate daily meal, and they never get the opportunity to explore other skills and markets beyond the existing one due to lack of skill and marketing support. This programme would include directly to vocational and skills development and will be reaching to the poor people with appropriate community mobilization and capacity building.
To enhance the capacity and employability of disadvantaged adolescent girls and woman.
To enhance the ensuring income generation opportunities of sustainable livelihood to disadvantaged adolescent girls and woman through Tailoring, Beauty Parlor and Toys making skill training, in 20 selected villages in North Bangalore.
To ensure ability for generate income to sustainable livelihood to the poor adolescent girls, woman and youth through solar light assembling skill as livelihood.
The mission of the Livelihood program is to support the efforts of agricultural and rural communities to restore the natural ecosystems that are the foundations of their livelihoods, food security and income.
