Socio-Economic Development & Husband Workshops
As part of Grameen Koota’s Micro-Credit plus activities, periodic Socio-Economic Development workshops are conducted for members. It covers topics in the areas of health, nutrition, AIDS awareness, insurance, banking, law, entrepreneurship, veterinary services, government schemes, panchayath raj etc. Resource persons at these workshops are experts from government departments, NGOs, hospitals, as well as police, lawyers and corporate managers. Till March-07 Grameen Koota conducted around 258 workshops attended by nearly 10,000 members. Additionally, annual workshops for the member’s husbands were carried out, to seek their support, feedback and to build awareness. Till March-07 100 “Husband’s Workshops” were attended by around 3,000 men.