Support young changemakers in India

Dear gracious sponsor,

Thank you for your incredible generosity to support Access Agriculture’s campaign ‘Support young changemakers in India,’ on GlobalGiving platform.

Your donation has been truly transformative for five young women changemakers – known as Entrepreneurs for Rural Access (ERAs) – helping them to turn their aspirations into achievements. As leaders or members of their teams, they are tackling complex issues, such as environmental sustainability and women empowerment, while improving farmer livelihoods.

• By facilitating a video show on ‘Village Savings and Loan Associations,’ an ERA team has helped revive a women’s self-help group, which had become inactive after the COVID-19 pandemic. The self-help group members have now started saving money and revitalised their community financial activities.
• After watching a food processing video shown by an ERA team on ‘Making banana flour’, women cooperative members started a successful banana flour enterprise. The enterprise is not only supporting farmers, but is also creating jobs for local women.
• A group of women farmers have adopted natural farming by doing vermicompost and using it in their vegetable gardens after seeing the videos ‘The wonder of earthworms,’ and ‘Making a vermicompost bed’ screened by an ERA team. Their enthusiasm and commitment motivated their NGO partner to provide support for the vermicompost beds.

Your generous gift has made a tremendous impact on the happiness and success of the young women changemakers and their beneficiaries. Thank you for your compassion and understanding.

Sincerely,