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Thanks to our wonderful donors, we were able to fully-fund the SRW program in Tamil Nadu, India. The program, which will help intensify program offerings promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women in 30 villages, was seeking $7,940 in funding to help offset the costs of initiatives such as human trafficking prevention, violence against women training, and supporting women-owned small businesses.
The funds will allow St. Joseph’s Social Service Center to:
“Our mission is to empower the poor and the marginalized with a view to restoring to them their human dignity,” said Sister Lucia Sebastian. “The Self Help Groups provide a platform for the poor women to understand their situation, support one another and to collectively take action to better their life situation and reclaim their human dignity.”
Although India is making strategic gains, the poor and especially women are left behind and statistics show the utter poverty in the Madurai District of Tamil India.
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