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साँझ महिला स्वयं सहायता समूह

Saanjh Mahila Swayam Sahayata Samooh

Saving together since 2019

A self help group of fourteen women in the Kangra valley: we save together, lend to each other, and make pickles and woollen socks.

Bandla, near Palampur

Our savings

Saved a little, together

Every member saves ₹100 a month. From the box we lend to each other, and every loan has come back.

₹26,600 Saved together
₹58,000 Lent to each other
5 Loans given to members

Our story

Fourteen of us began in 2019, a hundred rupees each a month, counted out on a durrie in the panchayat ghar. From the box we lend to each other: for school fees, a calf, a sewing machine. In winter we knit socks; in spring we put up lingad and mango pickle from our own fields. Every rupee is written in the book, and every loan has come back.

Saving together since 2019

What we make

Everything is made by the members, at home, from what grows and grazes around us.

Pickles

Lingad (fiddlehead fern), mango and lemon in mustard oil, put up in small batches from our own fields. No colour, no vinegar.

Woollen socks

Hand-knitted socks and caps in the old Himachali patterns, from local wool, all winter.

Our savings box

Every member saves ₹100 a month. From the box we lend to each other at low interest, and every loan is written in the book.

We meet

Every month, together

On the first Sunday of every month, at the panchayat ghar in Bandla, at 11. We count the savings, decide the loans and write the minutes together.

Members
14
Meetings held
24

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Bandla, near Palampur, Himachal Pradesh

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