Women are the strongest pillar of our country, our family and every home. However unfortunately the burden of poverty weighs down heavier on girls and women in India than it does on the opposite sex. Girl children from the lower tiers of society are lucky to see a classroom at all and girls from families in the bottom 20% get none at all. Even those who make it to school are often pulled out or have to drop out because of the financial condition of the family. Also, girls drop out of school mostly because of a lack of toilets in school declining the proper menstrual hygiene management facilities.

Since India has a society where the male-dominance is normally present in most of the homes, the social norms in the country are to subject women to domesticity, they often have to stay home and look after the young and the elderly. 

Women in India spend around five hours a day on unpaid care work while men devote a mere half an hour on average. This disproportionate burden of unpaid care work by women means they lose out on opportunities to participate in paid labour. Moreover, there are safety and security issues these women have to contend with reducing their chances of being independent as they have to be dependent on their men. These women accept the situation as their fate and carry on.

Seva Social Service Society works for the cause of these women facing problems like Illiteracy, Child Marriage, and Death of a Spouse and Marital violence/Domestic violence. Seva is planning to provide a better life for these women by creating opportunities for self-employment to these women. The NGO is planning to provide a sewing machine to those women who know how to operate them and can earn some money for them as well as their family survival. Also, those women not knowing sewing will be provided training so that they can earn for their livelihood.

The Project Objectives are:

Make the women self -reliant and independent & improve their overall condition.

Increase the employability of women belonging to the rural, lower-income group 

Improving the overall social-economic and welfare conditions of women as a whole

The proposed project will be implemented in different villages in Khopoli of Khalapur Taluka of Raigad District, in the state of Maharashtra,  having 1,650 households and a population of 7,733 persons. The area is agrarian and the majority of the population are engaged in agriculture and allied activities for their daily bread. Agriculture is a loss-making activity for many of these small and marginal farmers. Sizable numbers of people are working as daily labourers in the farms and plantations owned by rich people. Villages which are situated interior are landlocked and transportation facilities are quite less. Families who are living close to the forest are facing the attack of wild animals on their cultivation and houses. It is a fact that major percentages of the population are lending a hand to mouth existence. However, the people living in this area are very hardworking and Godly.

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Requesting all the individuals and Well established individuals to come forward and to donate to the NGO so that we can help poor, helpless and needy women and children. A small effort and contribution from your side can bring a smile and confidence on their face.

The SEVA Social Service Society Khadki – Pune is very keen and serious in its social activities ever since its establishment in 2015. SEVA Social Service Society is a registered national NGO.SEVA is actively participating in volunteer work for rehabilitating poor people and marginalized people in society. The NGO is doing their service in the state of Maharashtra for the last five years. It is involved in community development working in 5 slums in Pune and 15 tribal villages in Raigad district in the state of Maharashtra. SEVA Social Service Society has a secularist approach, and so does not bother about the religious status of the partner population, apart from their socio-economic background.

“No one has ever become poor by giving.”

 ― Anne Frank.