Society for Women's Education Economic Development - Sweed

This program is aimed to support for HIV/TB infected poor people especially for infected women.

The program of Help the malnourished poor children lead a healthy life providing Protein Health Powder - this Health Protein Health powder is supported for malnourished poor and disabled children in Melur taluck covering nearly 500 villages.

Monthly supply of Rice for the family of a person infected with HIV/AIDS and TB.

This Nutrition program is helped for HIV/AIDS and TB affected people. Every month the beneficiaries were invited to organisation and was given counselling on health and hygiene. Continuous supporting of nutrition their weight, Hemoglobin, CD4 counts were increased.

Social Empowerment Self-help Groups improve the equality of status of women as participants, decision-makers and beneficiaries in the social, democratic, economic and cultural spheres of life. And Nutrition program is to improve the health status of infected and affected poor people and malnourished children.

SELF-HELP GROUPS AND ITS ACTIVITIES:
Women empowerment and gender equality have become topics of utmost importance in the recent times, because gender inequality and its socio-economic and cultural dimensions are all pervasive in the third world as well as in the developed world. However, in the third world the problem of gender inequality is more acutely associated with economic disempowerment of women. And therefore, of recent, several initiatives are being taken up in the third world countries for the economic empowerment of women so as to reduce the gender inequality. Among these initiatives, the Self-Help Group (SHG) movement, which is getting wide spread all over the third world, has become the prominent one. Self-help groups enhance the equality of women as participants, decision-makers and beneficiaries in the democratic, economic, social and cultural spheres of life. The SHGs inculcate a great confidence in the minds of rural women to success in their day-today life.

"Economic empowerment" can be defined as the development of the ability of the historically disadvantaged to engage in economic activity that benefits both the individuals in question and the broader society. It is seen as a more productive and less costly way to help those who would otherwise remain dependent on the social welfare system. Welfare has its critics who contend that welfare removes the incentive to find employment while drawing excessively from the treasury. By empowering individuals to become economically or financially self-sufficient, they are removed from welfare payrolls and become more productive members of society.

PROBLEM: As Widows move through their own experience of grief, loss, or trauma after the death of a husband, they may also face economic, insecurity, discrimination, stigmatization, and harmful traditional practices on the basis of their marital status. Most of the women lose their status, livelihood or property when her HUSBAND dies, yet most of the widows in our area face persistent abuse, discrimination. After the deaths of their husbands 75 per cent of widows shown to be lonely. Nobody will come forward to help them and struggling for daily food. Besides they are living extreme poverty without getting food every day. NEED: Supplying of RICE, the poor widows will run their life without hungry.

BENEFICIARY TYPE/CATEGORY OF BENEFICIARY NUMBER OF BENEFICIARY (UNITS) NUTRITIOUS FOOD – PER UNIT
Poor Widows 100 10 Kgs of Rice Rs.600