Statistical reports show that empowering women to achieve the maximum potential in their homes and otherwise is a critical component of any developmental strategy. The unique disadvantages women of most communities face is of poor access to education, high unemployment rate, low societal status, poor access to information, and low sense of identity or accomplishment. However, women have statistically been proven to spend more of their income on their households, and therefore empowering women to earn better incomes would benefit the welfare of the entire family directly.

Realizing this need to empower women in the effort to impact entire societies, Reaching Hand has sought to establish small-scale, low-investment enterprises for the goal of providing women with a means of income for themselves and for their families. These enterprises influence women who are generally uneducated, semi-educated, widowed, or in other ways are of disadvantaged societal status. Through these programs, the women are energized to become economically self-sufficient, emotionally self-confident, thereby providing improved living conditions at home and better prospects for their children and other immediate family.

Under this program, we have put up a tailoring unit in Perandapalli Village of Hosur and have successfully provided training in such skills as tailoring and embroidery to about 48 women so far. This project is currently creating awareness among greater numbers of women in that village and creating a sense of unity and a desire for more among them.

We hope to enable hundreds more of women to become agents of change in their communities, living and modeling lives of dignity.