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    Rural Research Projcet: Sewa
    (MICA, 2018) Dhillon, Daksh Singh; Smit Shah
    Supportive services like savings and credit, health care, child care, insurance, legal aid, capacity building and communication services are important needs of poor women. If women are to achieve their goals of full employment and self-reliance, these services are essential. Recognising the need for supportive services, SEWA has helped women take a number of initiatives in organising these services for themselves and their SEWA sisters. Many important lessons have been learnt in the process of organising supportive services for and by poor women. They provide these services in a decentralised and affordable manner, at the doorsteps of workers. Further, supportive services can be and are themselves a source of self-employment. For example, midwives charge for their services and creche workers collect fees for taking care of young children. Sewa has often sought to promote skill development and self sustaining practices amongst it’s members. To this effect it worked on various schemes like group savings and promoted digital literacy as well. However to date only 22% of members actively participate in Group savings schemes. Hence Sewa sought to promote financial literacy amongst it’s members via a pilot programme that would be launched in Gujarat in the year 2019 and if successful would be then shifted to various other states. The project that we were given was to supplement the efforts of the same. Our project was creating digital content to promote and facilitate financial literacy trainings. The