Self Help Groups are the key to breaking the cycle of poverty
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Each Self Help Group has about 20 women members. This is where women network, learn to work cooperatively, gain training and prioritise their objectives. Self Help Groups provide the framework that:
- Leads to organisation, resilience and empowerment.
- Offers training in basic health care, literacy, numeracy, budgeting and business management
- Facilitates the flow of information about every person’s rights and entitlements.
- Allows micro credit cooperatives to be established.
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The women of this Self Help Group gather in a new meeting place, built specifically by, and for the Group |
| Another Self Help Group meeting held in a member's home. With credit cooperative passbooks in hand they make plans for the future. |
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Achievements and outcomes
- Our development programs involve and support about 25,000 women in 1,300 Self Help Groups.
- It is estimated that a further 40,000 families members associated with self Help Groups also benefit from the flow-on effects of education and opportunities accessed by Self Help Group members.
- Illiteracy and preventable diseases are declining in communities where we work.
- Self Help Groups manage revolving micro credit loans with a value of R. 9,000,000 ($AUD 300,000).
- Self Help Groups have secured low interest bank loans to the value of R. 8,000,000 ($AUD 280,000)
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