Pickles
Lingad (fiddlehead fern), mango and lemon in mustard oil, put up in small batches from our own fields. No colour, no vinegar.
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.
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
News from the group
From the field
This spring's lingad pickle is ready
The first jars are packed.
Our first bank loan is repaid
Fourteen women, two years, every instalment on time.
A look around
In pictures
Find us
Bandla, near Palampur, Himachal Pradesh
Contact
Write to us
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