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w vocational training centers at rowta and toiling at farms were acknowledged as farmers
Trustees Update 2018-19 chubwa, where we have taken a leap of faith, with ownership of the farm produce and right
trained 150 women and recorded 80% and 85%
to market it. this was realized by making them
employment of women trainees respectively. part of the Farmer Producer groups. It is their
w digital literacy centers to encourage girls representation and active participation which has
Over the years: aPPl Foundation has completed 8 as we reflect on the experiences that we have to participate in the advance courses of digital returned as profitability by marketing their farm
years of its journey in 2019. aligning with the core assembled across the years, our learning is that literacy produce. over 5000 women now proudly call
values of working with communities in the assam change is constant, it is a deliberate attempt to w a dedicated programme in dooars, to educate themselves cultivators of turmeric and pepper.
valley and terai, we at the Foundation have charted evolve into the new. change for betterment, change girls and women on menstrual hygiene and use of
our course of action by identifying key gaps in for growth and change for sustainability stands out sanitary napkins expanding the opportunities for women to grow
leads to the growth of the community. the Women
healthcare, skills and education, and sought to as our ethos which we translate into action. w community Friendly education initiative for
supplement them by partnering with communities. Prosper Programme engages with women to
A new Women & Child centric approach: We seek educating girl children at nahartoli in dibrugarh help them be leaders in educating and training
In 2011 we started with a holistic vision of to constantly learn, change and improve with the district their communities to become entrepreneurs,
transforming the industrial backbone of tea in the help of communities. over the years, women have w accredited medical services for pregnant be it through digital literacy, solar technology
assam valley and north Bengal: a flawed model taken a leading role in helping us identify the most women and newly born infants or beekeeping, Women and young girls across
from the start, which left behind significant gaps urgently needed interventions. as the backbone w Healthcare programmes ensuring adoption of communities are stepping up to the occasion to
in skills, healthcare and environmental health. of communities, women were our focus this year, nutritious practices for a better tomorrow lead their sisters towards interdependence.
We sought to build its natural resources and along with children – our future change-makers. w Fungal Free Frock Programme to protect women
create thriving local economies that empowered Facilitating communities with innovation and from fungal infections, increasing the working as a part of our effort to encourage women to hold
local communities with better lifestyles. to usher technology to be the leaders and change makers potential of over 1500 working women the baton of cultural heritage of tea tribes high,
in change, we invested in creating better jobs, through initiatives owned by them is our way of this year a band of women from north Bengal
better opportunities and better access to essential nourishing the present and nurturing the future. generating livelihood opportunities for women participated at the samvaad Festival performing
social mobility assets for communities. With thus our initiatives for the four verticals of skill & appropriate to the ecosystem remains one of the Jhumoor. It has been our pleasure to have
sustainability as one of our key goals, we focused education, Healthcare, environment & livelihood foremost initiatives of the Foundation. Women provided over 1000 women tribal artists with a
on enabling the indigenous people to preserve and culture in the last year have been women and labour at farms without being recognized as platform to perform, preserve and promote their
their immediate environment and the rich cultural child centric, reaching over 100,000 women and farmers. It was through our small Farm Integration traditional dance forms as a part of the rich tribal
fabric of the region. children through: and sustainable agriculture Project that women art fabric of north east India at sirish 2019.

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