Safai Mitras: A Facelift to the Rag Pickers and Sweepers
Authors : Manish Maskara and Sonakshi Anand Subodh (name changed), belonged to the Musahar community and took to ragpicking1 when he migrated from his native village to the city around
SWaCH Cooperative – Transforming a Stigmatised Occupation into Decent Work
Authors : Ujwala Samarth and Aparna Susarla This case study tells the story of SWaCH Coop, a wholly-owned workers’ cooperative which not only enabled a marginalised and historically deprived community
From Nowehere to Somewhere
Authors : Shiv Shankar Kumar Araria, Kishanganj and Purnia (also Purnea) are three districts of north Bihar, infamous for the trafficking of young girls and women. Even though not ordinarily
Sanjha Prayas Ajeevika Karyakram Svada Ghevra Resettlement Colony
Authors : Pranav Singh and Siddhartha Pandey Savda Ghevra provides a marginal civic experience. Families that were resettled here were provided with a small plot of land of either twelve
Home Managers – a Step towards Women Empowerment
Authors : Pritha Dutt and Ankita Dhyani According to the 2001 census, about 50% of the 80 million inter-state migrants are domestic workers. Nearly 90% of domestic workers in India
Training to Enable Livelihood and Employment
Authors : Amitabh Rath, Ravi Bhushan, Amresh Deshpande and Ankur Tulsyan With a population of over 1.2 billion people, India is the second most populous country in the world and
Enabling and Empowering the Urban Unskilled
Authors : Gayathri Vasudevan, Kirti Vardhana and Jyothi S. Rao The construction industry has been booming in the Bangalore metropolis for nearly a decade now.To cater to this demand, construction
Fighting Poverty through Fashion – A Case Study
Authors : Ananya Kulkarni and Anita Ahuja The name Bahadurgarh, would in all probability, not ring a bell with most people. It’s just one of those places that happen to
When a Single Path Diverges: Learning from Trickle Up’s Livelihoood Program
Authors : Jo Sanson and Jui Gupta “We’ve started using the river’s water for agriculture. The river has been there forever but we didn’t use it for our fields. Our
Rozgar Dhaba – As the part of Panchayat
Authors : Vinod Pandey “Change is important and in society, it must lead towards empowering communities – to demand their rights, access sustainable sources of livelihoods, acquire knowledge, and provide