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1,500 Sakhis, 300 Villages: How Maharashtra’s Manisha Ghule is Redefining Rural Women’s Work

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1,500 Sakhis, 300 Villages: How Maharashtra’s Manisha Ghule is Redefining Rural Women’s Work
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In drought-prone Beed, Maharashtra, social worker Manisha Ghule has developed the Sakhi model to turn rural women from informal, undervalued workers into trained frontline development professionals.



Selected by their communities and trained in agriculture, livelihoods, education and social protection, Sakhis are paid for services that address local needs. Earlier programme data recorded 1,200 Sakhis across 300 villages, while recent updates put the network at around 1,500 Sakhis across the s

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