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Promoting In Karodiya and Undera villages around Vadodara,

Reliance Foundation supported women’s groups who
women’s were involved in making handmade products, imitation
jewellery and sewing by supporting them with a sale
in the city. A 20-member SHG group in Vadodara
entrepreneurship managed sales of Rs. 38 lakh during the pandemic,
due to these micro-enterprises. Reliance Foundation
is now helping these women leverage digital platforms
and leadership to accelerate their entrepreneurship journey. Women’s
groups in Jamnagar and Vadodara have made 70,000
cloth masks in FY21-22.
Enabling nutrition

In FY21-22, Reliance Foundation worked with 1,315
W-SHGs and 973 SHGs received support and accessed
finance to the tune of Rs. 19 crore. These efforts security for rural
have helped women come together and establish
individual and group microenterprises in fields as
diverse as poultry, dairy, goat-rearing, bangle-making, communities
vermicomposting, vegetable and fruit nurseries,
floriculture, detergent manufacturing, tailoring, food
processing, confectionary and petty shops.
Reliance Nutrition Gardens (RNGs), address are cost-
Providing mentorship, effective backyard kitchen gardens where fruits
and vegetables are grown using multi-tier cropping
training and linkages system. In FY21-22, Reliance Foundation facilitated the
establishment of 10,896 RNGs across 11 states.

In FY21-22, over 11,000 women received information In addition to facilitating RNGs, Reliance Foundation
and capacity-building inputs on leadership, livelihood also joined the nationwide Rashtriya Poshan Maah
options, microenterprises and government schemes. initiative, reaching over 30,900 individuals. It helped
organise mass campaigns connecting rural citizens with
Reliance Foundation also facilitated livelihood & Anganwadis and frontline workers of ICDS –DWCD
mentorship trainings (in collaboration with external department, Gram Panchayats and Krishi Vigyan
agencies) to 5,882 SHG members to bolster economic Kendras amongst other stakeholders.
empowerment of women. Women entrepreneurs
leveraged WhatsApp to get timely solutions on
agricultural and livestock practices. These
interventions delivered vital information on areas like
backyard poultry, organic farm practices and nutrition
garden development.

Supporting

women’s enterprises

Under the Swashray project, Reliance Foundation
helped women groups in Jamnagar prepare healthy
and savoury food for sale at Reliance Greens stores,
local markets and vending machines. The groups
have built up a regular clientele through high-quality,
seasonally changing food, earning Rs. 22 lakh
in FY21-22.

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