Empowered and equipped
Graduation day of 12 students of the “EmpowHER” course at Chikkamagaluru.
With hope for a better future they go out to face interviews and showcase their confidence.
Capacity Building of Cluster Federations at Kadur.
Capacity building of the Cluster federations is crucial for the sustainable empowerment of the federation. The women representatives from the self- help groups are trained on the goals and, objectives of the women empowerment program. Leadership skills are developed in the women to be strong leaders in their own SHGs
Business opportunity guidelines
As per the strategy of CMSSS, the objective to create to promote livelihood and income generation programs among the beneficiaries is initiated.
As a part of this, Training on different IGPs (Income Generation Program) was organized at Balehonnur.
65 participants got the initial knowledge on different IGPs such as Mushroom cultivation, Poultry farming, Animal husbandry, Vermi-composting, Candle making etc
Skill development at Sakleshpur
Batch of 20 girls and women was started with the support of Jeevan Jyothi Federation
During the 4 month long course the trainees will be trained on Garment making skills and other entrepreneurial skills that are necessary to find employment or to be self-employed.
This is the second batch supported by the women’ federation to create livelihood to unemployed women.
Career Advancement Program
Integrated Child development program of CMSSS provided educational support to children through Child sponsorship and skills building activities.
Career advancem ent and personality building workshop was conducted for students in above 10th std to guide them in choosing a path for their future.
Mrs. Bharathi Singh, Founder, SA-MUDRA Foundation, Bangalore was the resource person on the topics of employment oriented soft skills, confidence building, resume writing, and selection process and interview skills.
Fr. Marcel Pinto, Director, spoke on the topics of life skill development.
37 children were benefited from this program
Employment to 20 women of Kadur through Garments Units
Support us to create guaranteed employment to 20 women of the drought stricken villages of Kadur, Chikmagalur district.
Support us to set up a training cum production unit.
Empowerment through Self-help groups, story of Yashoda
Yashodha is a beautician trainee from Birur and a member of a SHG of CMSSS, who completed the 4 month beautician course. She shares her experience and appreciation for CMSSS’ through the project of “Providing entrepreneurial life skills for school dropout” supported by FVTRS, Bengaluru during the valedictory program.
She shares how the self-help group has helped her to gain confidence, come of the four walls and find a way for her sustenance through the beautician course conducted by CMSSS.
She says ” i will begin my own beauty parlor from home in the beginning and slowly scale up”. Once the direction is set, moving towards it becomes easier.
A ray of hope
Mr.Poonuswamy and Mrs.Neelamma were residents of Galipooje in the border of Tarikere and Chikmagalur. They are blessed with 4 children and among them Mrs. Anjali was the second child. Her parents were very poor and due to poverty Anjali was married at the age of 19 to Mr. Narayana. She has two children a boy and a girl. At the age of 25 her husband abandoned her and the children and got into a second marriage at Tamilnadu. This was a critical moment in her life with two children of age 4 and 3 and no shelter on her head. She sheltered herself in the neighbors house for a couple of months and then rented a thatched hut for Rs.50/-.
The animators came to know about the plight of Anjali through the women of the neighboring village. They encouraged her to join the self help groups of CMSSS. She joined the SHG in the year 2010 but she could not afford to pay her weekly savings of Rs.10/-. The women in the SHG helped her to get employment in the coffee estate. She worked for 20 days in a month @Rs.100/- per day. She participated in the weekly meetings and cluster federation meetings regularly. In the year 2015-16 through the project on Good Governance she attended trainings on self help group concepts, documentation, formation of ward development committees, leadership and awareness on governmental schemes, ward sabha, grama sabha and social audit, civic fora etc. These training helped her to gain confidence and knowledge and understanding of various government schemes and entitlements.
Soon she applied for Government site (Kale Neeveshana) from the Thogarihankal grama panchayath. She started participating in ward sabha and grama sabha meetings. She borrowed a loan of Rs.20, 000/- from the SHG and built a small hut for her stay. In the year 2017 she applied for Ashraya Housing scheme and an amount of Rs.1, 20,000/- is sanctioned from the Thogarihankal Grama Panchayath. The SHG women sanctioned a loan of Rs.35, 000/- for the construction of house. The work of the house is in progress. Besides all her sorrows and pains she has educated her two children. Her son has completed ITI and her daughter is in class XI. She lives happily with her children and is satisfied with her work. She says that she remains grateful to all the women in her village who stood by her during her difficult times and the support of CMSSS and its team.
Towards Self-reliance
Theresa Lasrado is a resident of Mallenahalli Gram panchayath of Tarikere Tq Chikkamagaluru. She lives in a small house with her husband Leo Lasrado and two children Sujith studying in class X and Saniya studying in class IX.Theresa and her husband are daily wage laborers. Their income is meager and there was a perennial challenge of making ends meet for the family. At this juncture in the year 2010 the animator of CMSSS visited her house and introduced the concept of self-help groups. Theresa’s initial reaction was “how do I make time for this, when we are already struggling to earn our daily bread.” Constant visits and motivation helped her to join Sumathi SHG and started with a weekly savings of Rs.25/-. Almost after one unconvinced year and reluctant participation in SHG meets she was in dire need of Rs 2000 for her children’s education. Though her savings in the group was only 1300/- at that time, she was given a loan of Rs.2000/- by her group. This changed the way she looked at her SHG which was till now just a ‘group’ but now she saw the ‘self-help’ aspect of it. She put in her 100% efforts to actively participate in meetings and training of the SHG and was keen in learning things. She started asking questions to the resource person in the training. By 2015 she was elected as the president of the SHG.
In the year 2015-16 a project for Good Governance was implemented in Tarikere supported by Manos Unidas was a great experience for all the women of Tarikere Taluk such as attending grama sabha and ward sabha meetings besides visiting the panchayath and government departments. Theresa participated in all the activities and programs conducted by CMSSS and she was able to avail governmental facilities. The confidence of Theresa saw new direction and she decided to be self-reliant. Through Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) she constructed a cowshed. She has borrowed a loan of Rs.50,000/- from bank and purchased a cow to support her family. This not only adds extra income to the family but also helps in other ways. Besides selling milk, she prepares curds and ghee for her household. She has repaid a loan of Rs.26, 000/- and is confident to repay the remaining loan. She has a small kitchen garden where she grows vegetables for her household requirements and uses the manure from her cowshed for her kitchen garden. She and her family members have not only found source of income, but a means to cut their expenses and the path to self-reliance.
Responsibility and women
Very hard working Jayamma from Mudbagilu gave her two daughters in marriage and got them settled in their life. Just when every parent thinks her responsibilities were over, Jayamma’s responsibility was not over yet. Now her 70 year old husband depended on her. Independent and hardworking as she had always been she took this responsibility. She was ageing and knew that very soon she would not be able work as in her younger days. She was looking for options for livelihood to sustain her family. 15 years back she had joined Kaveri SHG and started a meager saving of Rs 10 per week. She was attending the trainings in the SHG on income generation activities. The savings and this knowledge came to her aid. She invested Rs. 10,000 from her savings in 2015 into an Areca nut nursery. She invested her time in her new kids and very soon she started earning some profit. In two years with a loan of Rs. 25,000 in from Jeevan Jyothi federation and she planted pepper nursery along with Areca nut. Today she earns a steady profit of Rs. 35,000 in a year which is carefully saved for their future.
Today, Jayamma guides and motivates other members in her SHG to plan for their future and also helps many to take initiative in self employment. Though she is advancing in her age she is very young and inspiration for others.