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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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