A team of 5 from Nagaland consisting of 3 NEN staff & 2 Weavers from Chizami traveled to Uttarakhand as part of the exposure learning to strengthen livelihood opportunities for communities.
The team visited Mahila Umang Producers Company Ltd, a collective of self-help groups and producers – engaged in promoting sustainable livelihoods through establishment of micro enterprises. The team spent two days interacting with the board members, members, management team, who shared their first-hand experience in organising, formulating and running a producers company. Umang has a working experience of over a decade.
The team also visited some of the collectives near Ranikhet, and exchanged knowledge on women collectivizing strategy and engagements.
The team also visited the food processing unit and knitting unit at the Mahila Umang workshop. During the weeklong exposure trip, the team travelled to SEWA Almora , where an interactive session was conducted with Sarthak SEWA team, a brief overview was shared on the different livelihood initiative taken up by the Sarthak team; SEWA Bank Sathi – under which they have the Customer Service Promoter (CSP) which started as a collaboration with SBI and expanded to FINO Payment Bank. The team also visited Sewa Atithi Junyali Homestays where there were interactions with the SEWA team and a SEWA unit meeting at Almora.
