Asha and Income Generation Activities

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Asha and Income Generation Activities

• Sundar Kumar Iyer on behalf of Kadirvelu Sundaram
• sskiyer_at_yahoo.com
• Asha 12 Year Conference
• May 24-26, 2003
• New York, NY

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Asha
Income generation activities.
When Education is coupled with Income generation
activities, the potential for accelerated
socio-economic change is realized
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Examples of Income generation activities
. 1. IOI / Anawim Trust Micro credit
2. Kaithi/ Bee keeping seed money 3.
Kuvempu / vocational training seed money
4. CMS / dairy cows/proposal ( review) 5.
Irula project/microcredit/ proposal
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IOI (INDIA)/ANAWIM Trust
Linking micro credit to education For us the
breakthrough came with the Idea of Linking
Micro-credit to women with the running of the
Asha Centre
Excerpt from Status report by Dr. R.Rajagopalan,
IOI (India)
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Kuvempu project / Detroit
1. Funding for vocational training 2. Income
Generation 3. Leading to self sufficiency
oflearning centers.
Funding for production of Bag making
Agarbhatthi Chalk piece Soap
Candle Making
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Self Help Group proposal by Irula Project Asha
Stars
Stimulating economic activity in
Irula community 1. Honey
Gathering. 2. Fishing net rentals
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Extending Micro Credit for socio-economic change
An increase in income of a poor family
Is an increase in the childs
motivation to learn