Chetna Vriddhjan Samiti
We are living in exciting times, indeed. What started out as an initiative in early 1980s towards savings and borrowings with small affinity groups of underprivileged women of neighbourhood is now taking shape of Community-based Organizations.
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Shramik Bharti was set-up in 1986 as relief voluntary agency in the wake of closure of mills and factories was now involved in economic upliftment with the consistent investment in community capacity building and guiding them in managing their affairs has played a crucial role and created leaders and empowered women. They are now moving beyond thrift & credit to other interventions for development in their communities.
Shramik Bharti has over the course of three decades promoted 1323 Self-Help Groups that comprises of over 21,858 members. These Self-Help Groups have organised themselves into 7 self-managed and self-sustained federations. They represent the immense potential of the community besides creating social capital that creates financial stability and sense of ownership and participation in community work.
Contemporary world values strength and youth which marginalizes the elderly people in their twilight years. With this insight, Shramik Bharti with the support of HelpAge India organized the elderly in Akabarpur block of Kanpur Dehat in 2014 into the umbrella development federation Chetna Vridhjana. The federation supports the income-generation projects of the members along with creating solidarity in their vulnerable social condition.