Aiming for Sweet Success
The Salem District of Tamil Nadu, south India is rich with hills. The area is known by surrounding communities for it’s mangoes, steel and a large dam called the Mettur Dam. (Pictured left.)
The area is familiar to us, Right Sharing of World Resources (RSWR), because we have partnered with a women’s self-help group there called Rural People’s Development Society, to encourage micro-enterprise development.
If you follow the sound of bees buzzing, you may happen upon the honey-saturated boxes of twenty-five women who have benefitted from RSWR microcredit to begin their new ventures. Bee-keeping was one of the entrepreneurial activities these women chose to create better economic resources for themselves and their families.
The women were trained by area Beekeeper, Mr. Vijayan, who instructed them about proper care of the bees while maintaining safety for themselves. (See below.)
The group has already identified 15 more women to whom they would like to revolve their loan, to keep empowerment aflight.
To learn about this and other RSWR projects, visit our website.
