1. What are the institutional voids/ deficiencies highlighted by The Case?
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• 21 percent of the Indian children under the age of 6 to 14 still did not attend educational institutions, according to the Indian census. Indian census is excluding those children who are engaged in domestic and agricultural sectors. Since ten years percentage of child labor had been increasing 9 percent even if HIH’s has implemented many of their strategies to eliminate child labor in India. Their focus is to provide services to children who had been out of school and also monitored the school.
• India had made notable medicines and health but most of the people who are poorest and in the remote villages do not get the benefits of such things. HIH’s has been …show more content…
This project included household trash collection, segregation, transportation, and processing. Through the solid waste management project, marginalized groups were offered employment opportunities at the same time that the local environment in poor villages was improved and soils were rejuvenate.
• HiH opened multiple Citizens’ Centres across the country to improve access to information for poor and illiterate Indians and to educate them about their rights as citizens. By offering villagers access to computers, computer courses, and the Internet, HiH sought to bridge the prevailing digital divide between rural and urban India. As Indian poor people are uneducated they cannot implement successfully.
• The objective of the microfinance initiative was both to alleviate rural poverty and empower women. HiH’s activities in this area included the formation of SHGs, the provision of microcredit, business training and mentoring for SHG members, and the formation of new businesses. This step is not enough for the poor people as the poverty is very high in …show more content…
For example, HiH established one partnership with a leading garment factory in Chennai called Intimate Fashions. With an initial investment of INR 275,000, HiH set up an industrial power- machine tailoring center to provide jobs for young women in the garment industry.
4- Hand in Hand had successfully assisted 161,000 women in setting up or strengthening family-based micro-enterprises (with roughly a $125 investment per enterprise), it viewed the growth of medium-sized businesses as a key step to helping people leave poverty permanently behind. The organization believed that it was through the bigger enterprises that the women were enabled to secure lasting financial stability, either via employment or via ownership.
4- Is micro finance enough -
Ans-
• 21 percent of the Indian children under the age of 6 to 14 still did not attend educational institutions, according to the Indian census. Indian census is excluding those children who are engaged in domestic and agricultural sectors. Since ten years percentage of child labor had been increasing 9 percent even if HIH’s has implemented many of their strategies to eliminate child labor in India. Their focus is to provide services to children who had been out of school and also monitored the school.
• India had made notable medicines and health but most of the people who are poorest and in the remote villages do not get the benefits of such things. HIH’s has been …show more content…
This project included household trash collection, segregation, transportation, and processing. Through the solid waste management project, marginalized groups were offered employment opportunities at the same time that the local environment in poor villages was improved and soils were rejuvenate.
• HiH opened multiple Citizens’ Centres across the country to improve access to information for poor and illiterate Indians and to educate them about their rights as citizens. By offering villagers access to computers, computer courses, and the Internet, HiH sought to bridge the prevailing digital divide between rural and urban India. As Indian poor people are uneducated they cannot implement successfully.
• The objective of the microfinance initiative was both to alleviate rural poverty and empower women. HiH’s activities in this area included the formation of SHGs, the provision of microcredit, business training and mentoring for SHG members, and the formation of new businesses. This step is not enough for the poor people as the poverty is very high in …show more content…
For example, HiH established one partnership with a leading garment factory in Chennai called Intimate Fashions. With an initial investment of INR 275,000, HiH set up an industrial power- machine tailoring center to provide jobs for young women in the garment industry.
4- Hand in Hand had successfully assisted 161,000 women in setting up or strengthening family-based micro-enterprises (with roughly a $125 investment per enterprise), it viewed the growth of medium-sized businesses as a key step to helping people leave poverty permanently behind. The organization believed that it was through the bigger enterprises that the women were enabled to secure lasting financial stability, either via employment or via ownership.
4- Is micro finance enough -