Cause 02 · Women empowerment
Maitri मैत्री
Skill training, self-help groups, rights awareness and a women-led stitching collective — so every woman we meet can earn in her own name.
600+Women trained
14Active SHGs
₹4,800Avg. first-month income
₹18L+Disbursed to SHG members
Programme
What we do
Six-month skill courses in tailoring, beauty, and food processing. Rights-awareness workshops on domestic violence, succession, and the Maternity Benefit Act. A roster of lawyers for pro-bono support.
Where it runs
SHGs we partner with
Jagriti, Roshni, Saheli, Sanjh, Asha, Ekta, Disha, Kiran, Mehak, Naya Savera, Aaghaz, Tarang, Pragati, Seher — fourteen collectives; member-led, profit-sharing.
From the field
Photographs from Maitri.
In their words
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The people Maitri has reached.
“The stitching unit gave me ₹4,800 in my first month. My husband started respecting me differently. So did I.”
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Sunita, 34
Tailoring SHG · Sagarpur
“I opened a parlour in my own room. Three ladies from the gully are my first customers.”
F
Farzana, 28
Beauty course graduate
“We run our meetings, our books, our loans. The NGO just opened the door — we walked through.”
R
Rekha, 41
SHG president · Najafgarh
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