Amrita Self-Reliance, Employment and Empowerment(SREE) Program is inaugurated, providing equal economic opportunity to women. Currently there are more than 6,000 Amrita SREE Self Help Groups with more than 100,000 women participating across India. In the Andaman Islands, we have established an additional 1,000 self-help groups.
Some of the fields in which Amrita SREE has helped create SHGs include: tailoring, handicrafts, electronic-repair, account systems, beauty-parlor management, feminine-hygiene products production, paper products, ready-made garments, leather products, bakery items, hand-looming, coir-making, garment-making, communal farming, food processing, banana culture and rice-flour production.
