Volunteer in India for microcredit, microfinance and micro enterprise projects

Name of the Project: Urban livelihood and microcredit

Highlights of the project:

This opportunity provides you the scope to work closely with microcredit groups on livelihood issues resulting from acute poverty and vulnerability among women.  You will work on issues of self-employment and skills development to increase self-employment options. You can also contribute your abilities to a series of sustainability measures such as: capacity building, human resource development, networking and linkage building and promoting local development committees.

The main focus areas of this project are:

-          To improve livelihood support systems through awareness building

-          To increase community empowerment and mobilisation

-          To increase participation in the local governance/development process.

Project Location

City / Village: Saboli and Harsh Vihar, North-East Delhi

Language Preference: Hindi & English

Experience required: Experience in the field of micro-credit, Microfinance, or community based work is desirable.

Attribute/Qualities Required:

-          Should have an understanding of urban credit issue.

-          Ability to understand urban governance and vulnerability and livelihood opportunities.

Period of volunteering opportunity: Minimum one month

Age Range: 25 and above

For more information contact: volunteer@responsenet.org