UK charity LifeBuilder today officially launches an innovative partnership with Indian social enterprise Macro Dairy, giving women from poor rural communities in India an opportunity to pull themselves out of poverty by enabling them to earn a decent income through dairy entrepreneurship.

 

LifeBuilder and Macro Dairy’s Women Dairy Entrepreneur Scheme provides the women with micro-finance solutions that enable them to purchase their own cows. The women receive training in animal husbandry and access to a state of the art dairy to house and milk their cows while giving them a good price for the milk the cows produce due to Macro Dairy’s direct access to market. Before taking part in the Women Dairy Entrepreneur Scheme the women lived below the poverty line, often having little or no education, no access to land and no viable employment. The women also have the additional opportunity of participating in other programmes such as education and family welfare.

 

This unique partnership of a charity working with an established business is giving these women an effective way to lift them and their family out of severe poverty without having to rely on hand-outs. 

 

Jaswinder Kaur, one of the beneficiaries of the LifeBuilder and Macro Dairy Women Dairy Entrepreneur Scheme says: “Before becoming a Women Dairy Entrepreneur I was struggling to make ends meet, with no...