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₹1,000 feeds a family of five for a month

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Zakat-eligible

Widow Support & Livelihood

The measure of this programme is how quickly a household stops needing us

A woman works a treadle sewing machine in a small tailoring workshop.
A woman works a treadle sewing machine in a small tailoring workshop.

Income, not aid

A widow with a skill and no capital is not a case for permanent charity. She is a business waiting for its first ₹11,000.

We provide the equipment, a month of stock and the training, then step back.

What it funds

What your ₹11,000 really does

1 Equipment
1 month Initial stock
1 course Skills training
6 months Follow-up visits

How you can help

What each amount does

Where it goes

Districts we deliver this in

  • West Bengal — Murshidabad
  • Telangana — Hyderabad

Giving with amanah

Your donation is an amanah — a trust held on your behalf, and on behalf of the household that receives it. We treat it as money that is not ours, because it is not.

That means buying at market rates and keeping the quotes, signing every handover against a register, and publishing accounts that an auditor has seen before you have.

Our promise to you

We will tell you what your donation funded, including when it did not go to plan. We will not publish a figure we cannot evidence — you will find outstanding markers on this site rather than estimates.

And we will never use a photograph of someone in distress to raise money from you.

Questions

Before you give

We follow up for six months and will re-train or re-equip once. Beyond that we would be sustaining a business that is not working, at the expense of a household that could start one.

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