The Self help approach brings hope
This case study belongs to the Shanti self-help group. There are ten SHG members in this group. All women of this group belong to the Kachhi tribe. The CRSA team 2021 initiated to start work in this village named Rano Patel. The women’s self-help group formed in 2021 and they started monthly saving with Rs. 100. The total group saving is Rs. 10,000/= and each member has an individual saving of Rs. 1000. In this group the one lady her name is Hazni w/o Radian, Hazni is a very active and hard worker woman. Her husband works in landlord fields and she also works with him in fields. In monthly income of her family is nominal and difficult for them to fulfill their family needs. In the Hazni family, there are seven members five kids and hazni & her husband.
In March 2022, her elder daughter named Chandani was seriously ill and she was very upset about her daughter’s health. Hazni and her husband want to do her daughter’s medical checkup from a private doctor but due to her limited financial resource, they can’t afford it. Her daughter’s condition is getting worse. One day she discussed her daughter’s health issue with her women’s self-help group members. The SHG members advised her she can take a loan from the SHG group and can take her daughter for a medical checkup. Hazni took an Rs.3000/= loan from the group and took her daughter for a checkup. After a week her daughter’s health is getting improved and now she is much better. Hazni is very thankful to all SHG members, they supported and guided her. She committed to returning back the loan amount within three months because she doing labor during the harvest season.
During the interview, Hazni shared with the team that, before it was difficult for us to fulfill urgent needs. We did not sure if we request to landlord for the loan it will receive or not but by our self-help group it was a really easy way for us to take a loan from our own savings and our group members also understand the situation. She requests to pray for her daughter’s complete healing. Her family is thankful to SHG members & CRSA-KCDA Team for sharing SHG Concept.