10. XLRI Students "Give" their skills: Training of SHGs launched

As a part of "Jamshedpur JoyFest: Joy of Giving Week", the students of XLRI Jamshedpur, partnered with the NGO Kala Mandir to launch the first round of training to the members of Self Help Group from the villages of Jharkhand on Sept 26th, at Kala Mandir's premises in Bistupur, Jamshedpur.

During the first round of day-long workshop, 250 SHG members will be trained during this week. The training module developed by the students covers:

Importance of savings

Importance of regular meetings

Why loans should be taken internally?

Concept of Interest

Bank loan - Bank-SHG linkage

Basic Book Keeping

This will be an ongoing program through which XLRI students plan to train 1000 SHGs over next two months