Despite pandemic NCUI Feld Projects helping the handicraft business of Self Help Groups under NCUI Cooperative Education Field Project in Ahmedabad is gaining momentum, and lives of SHGs members are returning to normal.
After the 2nd wave of Covid pandemic, the handicraft business of Self Help Groups under NCUI Cooperative Education Field Project in Ahmedabad is gaining momentum, and lives of SHGs members are returning to normal.
The SHG women weave torana, in accordance with Gujarati tradition, which is used to decorate the home entrances. Though the earnings of women are less compared to pre-Covid days, there is a sense of optimism that good days will come, says a press release mailed by NCUI.
The women have high hopes that their products will find a good market with the inauguration of NCUI Craft Centre soon at the NCUI premises. The objective of the Craft Centre is to display the products of cooperative societies/SHGs for exhibition and sale as well as uploading the same on the website of NCUI so as to build up e-Haat.
This initiative is based on a strong feeling that there is a need to showcase the products of lesser-known coops/SHGs at the national level through a year-round exhibition, which can offer good markets for such products.
The women members of SHGs under NCUI Coop Education Field Project, Ahmedabad look forward to the organization of more field level skill development programs so that they can learn varied skills, and come up with diverse products which can find good markets at the NCUI Craft centre, and other places.
Despite covid, the dairy business work of SHG women is going smoothly, without any disruption, as they get the right price of the milk they sell to village dairy cooperative societies under AMUL.
There are 63 SHGs, and 20 adopted PACS under NCUI Cooperative Education Field Project, Ahmedabad, covering talukas Daskroi and Bavla. The project however faces a challenge to diversify the business of PACS, which was affected during Covid pandemic.