Livelihood Promotion
“If one can create an honorable livelihood, where she or he take own skills and use them and earn a livening from it, it gives the person a sense of freedom and allows to balance life the way one wants to live.”
Livelihood is a set of economic activities, involving self-employment and/or wage-employment by using one’s endowments (human and materials) to generate adequate resources (cash and non-cash) for meeting the requirements of self and the household, usually out repeatedly and as such become a way of life
The primary reason to promote livelihood is the belief in the essential right of all human being to equal opportunity. Poor people do not have life choices nor do they have opportunities. Ensuring that a poor household has a stable livelihood will substantially increase its income and over a period of time, asset ownership, self-esteem and social participation.
The second reason for livelihood promotion is to promote growth. The ‘bottom of the pyramid’ comprising nearly 4 billion out of the 6 billion people in the world, who do not have the purchasing power to by even the bare necessity of life – food, clothing and shelter. But as they get steadier incomes through livelihood promotion, they become customers of many goods and services, which then promote growth.
The third reason for promoting livelihoods is to ensure social and political stability. When people are hungry, they tend to take to violence, crime……
Livelihood Promotion by Bosundhara
Livelihood Promotion has always been our strength. We strongly feel that by forming institutions like SHGs, FIGs FPO/OFPOs at the grass root level and making then=m self-reliant and dynamic, we prepare the scene fir livelihood interventions, carefully cultivated member-specific income enhancement plan. This step-by-step approach has been uniquely designed by Bosundhara.
In planning new development activities, Bosundhara has drawn on the principal factors that affect poor people’s livelihood and the relationship between these factors. It has used these antecedents as basic guidance to address and overcome poverty. Sustainable livelihood is a major component if Bosundhara’s vision of an integrated deice for poverty alleviation. It has placed the vulnerable poor at hecentre and tried to connect or elevate them, through necessary facilitation, to livelihood measures that are in congruence with their capacity.
Supported by the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development-NABARD, Bosundhara advocated Livelihood Promotion through “Livelihood & Enterprise Development Program-LEDP & Micro Enterprise Development Program-MEDP, Skill Development program of Goat Rearing, Vane & Bamboo Craft Making and Pill, Pickle making from Mushroom and Restaurant Item making.
Apart from these to enhance and promote livelihood, Bosundhara continuously organizing leadership development training for SHG members, vocational training on Fishery, Seed Production, Horticulture & Agro-Farming(Mushroom and Honey Bee Keeping), Artificial Jewellery and Flower making, Nylon Bag making, Cutting-Knitting &Tailoring, Paper Bag making and Bamboo Craft making with support from MSME Deptt, Govt. of India.
Bosundhara was founded in 2007 by a group of professional from a diverse experienced field with full of dream.
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