Empowering Women in Rural Uttar Pradesh






India is an agrarian country with over 60 percent population belonging to the rural background. Coming from such a humble background rural people are mostly naïve and simple, which makes them more vulnerable to the injustices by the richer, more powerful people, who exploit them to their last limit. They look up to the governing authorities, but because of the red tape, they do not always get much help. To set them free from the shackles of their woes, it becomes imperative to empower them so that they can help themselves and each other. Especially in the backward states, the worst of which is Uttar Pradesh.

RGCT understood this predicament, and started working for this cause with an aim to make the rural population, especially women, stronger and independent. The working method of this NGO is different from all other organisations that are working for rural welfare. Instead of providing direct help for a selected set of problems like education and sanitation etc., RGCT believes in making them efficient to solve all their problems and uplift their status in the rural community. RGCT creates self-help groups in Uttar Pradesh. The women in these self-help groups are called ‘Sakhi’, meaning ‘friend’, which they eventually become, sharing all the economic and social responsibilities together. These self-help groups are made village-wise, and then are combined on the block level and then further integrated on the district level, making them more powerful than ever, carrying out economic activities together, while helping each other with their social status and respect, and even house responsibilities.

In the field of rural development, RGCT is one of the most focussed women's empowerment organizations that have shown exemplary work and prospects to make lives better for rural women populations. And for that, these women need to be confident with their leadership roles, that’s why all these groups have one leader who leads other women in the group, then there is a block leader and district leader.

RGCT has helped the rural women find their potential and using their skills in earning a stable livelihood. They have found their confidence and now-fangled respect, which has been possible because of the power of unity they found when they established this beautiful bond with other women just like them. A lot of organisations have worked at different levels to alleviate the problems of rural women and provide them the means of earning a livelihood, but RGCT has taken up the feat to not just empower them with money but also with their status of living and respect in the society. The bond that these women share has also given them power to take a stand for their rights, for which they are not completely dependent on the male members of their community. It has also helped them to become an integral part of mainstream economy, at the same time, given them exposure to the outside world where they can exhibit their skills, which has made it the most successful NGO working for women empowerment.

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