The Golden Weavers' Project by Grameen Sahara: A Hope to Provide Livelihood for the Poor Rural Female Weavers of Assam

Abstract

 Grameen Sahara is an institution in support of sustainable livelihoods, basically for the women. The main branch of this NGO is in Kulshi Road, Chaygaon of Kamrup district of Assam. Sericulture or Eri Silk production which evolved the ‘Golden Weavers Project', with people working as spinners. They have more than 5000 women spinners. The ‘golden weavers' have come as a producers company after 5 years of its initiation. Through this paper, I want to study how the NGO Grameen Sahara improves the standard of living of the eri weavers through "Golden Weavers Project”.

For this paper basically I used primary information. The data are collected through simple random sample method from the village Borduar.