Innovation

Lok Vikas Sanstha wants women to be self-dependent.

For the same Lok Vikas Sanstha has partnered with not just the government but also corporations like ONGC, Reliance, Essar, L & T for space for training purposes and with Reliance for Medical facilities

Lok Vikas Sanstha also work on AIDS and STD victims. As identifying them is difficult Lok Vikas Sanstha has its own network of people at the ground level to identify them.

Inspiration

The motivation and purpose was to reduce inequality and for that they trained women to become employable. They wanted them to become financially independent so they helped those open bank accounts before any government schemes later under the government scheme of “Jan Dhan Yojana”.

While working on HIV, Lok Vikas Sansthawas approached by UNICEF and was a strong motivation factor.

Overall impact

Lok Vikas Sanstha has impacted a lot of people from women to truckers to tribal people.

Talking about women empowerment, at present they have the economic safety net in form of Self-help groups. They have started depositing money earlier. Earlier, they used to deposit the money with someone they knew. People used to dupe them. There were lot of cases where this money used to get stolen. LVS has put an end to that.

A lot of women who took training are now employed.

Business benefit

Women's labour was available at cheap rates to textile industry; also these women were unemployed or have not worked. So both the women and the industry were benefited in the process.

Social and environmental benefit

There is reduction in STD case as there was increase of awareness. Life of a lot of women improved as they were now financially independent. Sex workers and truckers were made aware of HIV, so preventive measures were taken rather than curative.

Interview

Sonal Shroff, interview on Lok vikas Sanstha