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s a part of its 'HCL Uday' Urban CSR manufacturing skill training, in addition to
project, EDII has collaborated with HCL interaction with Bankers, interaction with
AFoundation under the SATTVA Project, to successful entrepreneurs and awareness
train urban poor women from Bangalore, sessions specifically designed for women. In a
Hyderabad and Madurai. The SATTVA project is training programme organized recently, EDII
aimed at building the power of Community trained 30 urban poor SHG. Post completion, EDII
institutions such as SHGs, Federations of handholds trained women entrepreneurs to
cluster/block/district levels. This programme is establish their enterprise and scale up their
designed to educate and thus provide urban business activities.
disadvantaged women with new opportunities.
WSDP is committed to encouraging women to
The aim is to ensure that women generate
promote change by building careers for
sustainable income generation options.
themselves and many others. Women have shown
Participants are trained in a skill which has the that they are better entrepreneurial leaders, and
scope of being developed into an enterprise, with such training and counselling interventions,
locally. This ensures sustainable sources of many more women can become entrepreneurs.
income for the participants in their own locality.
WSDP at Jigani, Bangalore
The project aims at training 450 urban poor women
from Jigani in Bangalore, Keerathurai in Madurai In Bangalore, the SATTVA Project is being initiated
and Asif Nagar in Hyderabad through 15 Women in Jigani industrial area under Integrated
Skillpreneurship Development Programmes Community Development Approach of HCL
(WSDP), over a period of 12 to 15 months. Foundation. 153 Women have been trained under
WSDP for making cloth bags, paper bags, toiletry
Women Skillpreneurship Development
products and jute products.
Programme (WSDP)
EDII trained women entrepreneurs started their
WSDP is a four-week training with a blend of
group enterprise named WE Ojas Consumer
entrepreneurship development sessions, product

Women Entrepreneurs showcasing Jute and Toiletry products during an exhibition.

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