Women Empowerment
Examples of Women’s empowerment programs designed by BCT:
- Thrift groups
- Adda leaf stitching
- Nursery raising
- Papad Making
- Screen Printing
- Dairying and animal husbandry
- Tape weaving
- Poultry keeping
- Training of paravets, paramedics, and village animators
- Screen Printing
- Elkoppaka toy making
Catalysts of Change
1980 was a landmark year. This was when BCT started working with the village women realizing that they had the potential to become agents of change.
While there has been a noteworthy upsurge in studies of women in developing countries and attempts to organize development programmes aimed at women at the national level, there is no getting away from the depressing truth that government sponsored developmental activities have done little to benefit the mass of poor women, particularly in rural areas. A U.N. report observes, “while women represent half of the world’s adult population and a third of the official labour force, they toil for nearly two-thirds of all working hours, receive only a tenth of world income and own less than one percent of world property.”
