AIM :- To promote economic empowerment of Amphan affected families in Sundarbans, WB, India by providing them necessary chick support to generate livelihood for the families who were badly impacted by the pandemic

The Context

Sundarbans, has been one of the remotely based locations in the world map covering 19 blocks from South and North 24 Pgs. The region has been worldwide known for the flora and fauna and wide diversity in the population. Even today, people here are mostly dependent on forest and river for their livelihood which barely meets their daily ends. Poverty has been the major driving force in giving birth to the various social injustices and adversities here.

As a result, the women are the most vulnerable becoming victims of domestic violence, trafficking, early marriages, girl child mortality, etc. in everyday context. The region is culturally enriched and yet backward where girls and women are still not considered to be active decision makers and occupy the lowest place in the family pyramid owing to low / no income, being one of the main push factors. This increases the vulnerability of the women and is required to be immediately acted upon so that women and girl children can live with grace and dignity.

To provide a sustainable means of livelihood to the deprived women, MUKTI extended their helping hand through Chick Support program which was aimed to address the mentioned issues through identifying potential women leaders who can act as an entrepreneur and can support their family’s livelihood in long run. The intervened project area was in the Southern parts of the Indian subcontinent. Here mostly 70% of the people are either agriculture dependent or work as an agriculture laborer. Due to frequent floods and cyclones the community people faced several strains and constraints in their daily lives. The rigours cyclones had led to decrease in the productivity of the agricultural land.

Location: Keshiary block, Datan-1 block, Datan-2 block of the Paschim Medinipur district and Egra-1 block of Purba Medinipur district.

The project promoted economic empowerment of Covid-19 affected families in Purba and Paschim Medinipur district of the WB, India by providing them necessary chick support to generate livelihood for the families to make them Aatm Nirbhar.

• To create an alternate livelihood source among the impoverished women who lost their livelihood in Covid-19, thus eradicate poverty and hunger among them and their children.

• To Enrich knowledge of participants on enterprise management, business dynamics and rural markets.

• Economic empowerment and Entrepreneurship development of women thus making the target women as self-dependent.

• Economic security by creating income opportunities and income generating activities for livelihood and social security.

• Targeting SDGs 1 i.e No Poverty and SDGs 8 i.e Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all