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The women's self help groups (SHGs) provide both short term and long term improvements to entire communities, as well as to the individual group members. They help to empower women and promote sustainable development initiatives, such as Community Savings Schemes and Small Business Start-ups. Here you can find out more about what a self help group is and read the latest updates about the project.



Community Facilitator Report - One Family's Story Print E-mail
Written by Jill Russell   
Wednesday, 19 November 2008 00:00

Self Help Group Meeting
Here is a recent report from one of the LUCIA funded community facilitators, Dinkenesh, telling the story of how membership of a Self Help Group has affected the life of one woman and her family. Dinkinesh writes about the women:

Tsehay lives in Sebeta Keble 01. She is head of a household with five children. She is a member of ‘Hibret beandinet' Self Help Group (SHG). I organized this group in year 2006. Like other savings groups, this group has 20 members who save one Ethiopian Birr (ETB) each per week. [Editors note: 1 ETB was approximately equivalent to 0.07 GBP (7 pence) at the time of writing]

I want to tell the story of Tsehay before and after she became member of the SHG....

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Last Updated on Thursday, 27 August 2009 19:36
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Women's Self Help Groups Print E-mail
Written by Sylvia Gardiner   
Monday, 30 June 2008 15:43


Self Help Group

The challenges facing women in rural areas of Ethiopia are related to poverty and lack of education. As a woman’s social status is considered to be low, their full potential is not realised and they are left repressed and afraid. One method for addressing these and other problems is the formation of women’s Self Help Groups. LUCIA helps fund the development of such Self Help Groups, thereby empowering women economically, socially and politically. The groups address many problems by enabling women to tap into and mobilise the assets that they already have, no matter how small, rather then depending on external resources such as world aid.

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Last Updated on Tuesday, 22 September 2009 21:00
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