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Advancing towards achievement of Millennium Development Goals by training Rural and Tribal women in Solar Food Processing: A Hands-on Experience at Barli Development Institute for Rural Women in Central India
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | McGilligan, Janak Palta |
| Copyright Year | 2009 |
| Abstract | 1. Abstract Barli Development Institute for Rural Women has been working for sustainable community development through training of rural and tribal young women as human resources since 1985. In doing this it attempts to stay aligned with the Millennium Development Goals. Following an initiative by the Ministry of Non-Conventional Energy Sources, New Delhi University of Indore, Solare Brucke, Gadhia Solar, and PLAGE; one of its priorities has been the promotion of solar food processing technologies in villages by training grassroots women in central India. During the past decade, the Institute has successfully trained these women in using devices like SK14 and various types of Scheffler cookers, 10 & 2.7-meter storage cookers, and tunnel dryers; both for income-generating and domestic use. The training empowers the women with knowledge, experience, and skills to build their capacity in the areas of socio-economic development. It is integrated in nature and covers human rights; healthy families and communities, successful management of self help groups; producing and marketing solar processed indigenous food and beverages, identification of locally available nutrients, and inexpensive supplements for food. Technical training for the trainees incorporates assembling SK 14 kits, operating the cookers, their maintenance, as well as enabling them to understand the importance and relevance of these cookers. The Institute has developed training materials and disseminated information especially designed for the users. They are trained in a way not only to benefit themselves but also so that they can make optimum use of these skills in their villages, as the users introduce, demonstrate, and popularise the benefits of solar devices and food among fellow rural women and neighbouring communities. The training of rural and tribal women in these solar devices has been provided to solar cooks for domestic kitchens and community solar kitchens, teachers for various NGOs and interested students and professionals from various universities. The Institute also trains SelfHelp micro credit groups in solar food processing technology; one of the successful examples is SIRDI. This intensive skill training and its direct application leads Barli advancing towards achievement of the Millennium Development Goals such as eradicating extreme poverty and hunger; achieving universal primary education; promoting gender equality and empowering women; reducing child mortality; improving maternal health; ensuring environmental sustainability; developing a global partnership for development; and improving the quality of life of rural women by helping to break down gender barriers and elevate status within their respective communities. |
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