| Address |
10, Navnit Apartments, 3rd Floor 125 Ram Maruti Road, Dadar (W) Mumbai 400 028, Maharashtra |
Status |
Registered in 1975, Annapurna is the Goddess of food. It represents a woman who is organised, socially aware, economically independent and self-reliant. Registrations: Society; Trust.
|
Programmes |
Offers distressed, homeless women, girl children, unwed mothers and daughters of commercial sex workers a temporary shelter, medical and legal aid, counselling, rehabilitation and self-employment; single mothers are selected and helped in their child's upbringing. Liaisons with other women's organisations to fight against dowry, child marriage, rape, alcoholism, polygamy and domestic violence;
Navneet, situated in Dadar, Mumbai, is the head offfice of AMM and Annapurna Mahila Cooperative Credit Society provides micro finance; acts as a mediator between banks/ financial institutions and women and helps via pensions and insurance schemes; has distributed Rs35 crore in loans reaching 1,50,000 needy women entrepreneurs; distributed loans of Rs35 lakh to over 6,000 women in Belgaum, Kolhapur and Pune; organised 4,000 self-employed women into small groups; disbursed loans of Rs27 lakh to help them pursue and increase the scope of their business; loaned Rs5 lakh to 1,000 women in Marathwada to improve their living conditions. Has a training centre and marketing platform in Purananna for consumer goods and homemade food products.
Annapurna Nagar, a home for distressed women and their children provides catering to corporate bodies like NOICL, TFIL and
individual clients - has at its disposal a hi-tech I kitchen equipment increases job opportunities; I and a working woman's hostel that can accommodate about 100 women. Dada PuraoTantra Niketan provides training in motor winding, mushroom farming, poultry farming, goat rearing, bakery, knitting, sewing, catering and catering management. Is currently building a medical research institute.
|