By Jennifer Pope | Communications Associate
Although India has recently received media attention due to the IT boom and job outsourcing, growth and development have been largely confined to the south and west of the country. Trickle Up focuses its work in some of India’s poorest states in the east.
Our field office in Kolkata oversees the work of 19 local partner agencies, which help Trickle Up implement its program. Partners already provide other valuable services to the communities they serve, depending on their area of focus. One partner in Orissa, for example, helps hone the handicraft skills of tribal women, while a partner in Kolkata addresses child labor issues, helping families keep children in school.
In West Bengal, Trickle Up is piloting an exciting project with support from the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor, a division of the World Bank. Working with a local organization, Trickle up will provide business and vocational training and seed capital grants to 300 entrepreneurs. With one-on-one staff support, entrepreneurs will deposit regularly in savings groups. After eighteen months to two years, they will be eligible to graduate to a microlending program to further expand their businesses.
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