The tribal community where we work is located in the District of Birbhum, West Bengal that is well known for high quality rural Handicrafts. We helped a group of village women organize a Self-Help Group (SGH) where they are being trained to develop, produce, locate the high quality products made by the local master artisans …
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Small loans no more than Rs.15,000 ($220.00) are borrowed by villagers at a very small interest to start or expand family business. On Sundarban site we started with 4 families and now more than 130 families are participating in the program. The default rate is remarkably low, about 3 to 4%.
Many secondary schools in West Bengal particularly in the rural, small town and suburban areas are not equipped to provide hands-on active learning of the Science subjects. We want to offer our program called “BUILD A SCIENCE CLUB IN YOUR SCHOOL” to such schools that are committed to give high priority to the study of …
GRABUU supports a number of educational projects of Nayantara’s Supportive Educational program (SEP). More than 350 children of class I to X are enrolled in this program. These children who come from the local tribal community regularly attend the government run schools. But the quality of education imparted in these schools is extremely poor. In …
In the year 2011, GRABUU, along with Bharat Sevashram Sangha (BSS), jointly identified, planned and organized several Livestock projects for the villagers so that they can earn or add to their earning of livelihood by raising domestic animals. GRABUU – BSS volunteers bought and distributed the following animals among the villagers through their SHGs (Self-Help …
GRABUU funded the Text Book Library and the Science Laboratory of Mahendragunj High School. We visited the school and found that books and the equipment have already been bought and the Library and the Laboratory would start functioning shortly. GRABUU also offered merit scholarships to 36 top performing students (equal number of boys and girls) …
