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Skills, capital, and market connections that open new economic opportunities.
Economic Freedom
We are helping communities achieve economic stability and better quality of life, focusing on women's leadership for sustainable development.
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Access is only the beginning.
Access
Opening doors to skills, capital, markets, and opportunity for youth and women.
Navigate
UDAAN SARTHIs, embedded within communities, help people move through systems with confidence.
Sustain
Livelihoods and enterprises that communities can strengthen and carry forward over time.
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UDAAN SARTHIs supporting livelihood pathways
Four pathways to economic dignity.
Skills and Employment
Modular vocational training combined with industry exposure, placement support, and post-placement mentorship. Our flagship Project 10K model has placed hundreds of youth in formal employment across healthcare, IT-enabled services, and other growing sectors.
Enterprise Development
Interest-free microcredit linked to self-help groups, business mentorship, and structured pathways from grants to enterprise. We work with women to build businesses that grow with them, strengthening long-term economic resilience and autonomy.
Women's Economic Collectives
Producer groups, federations, and shared enterprises that move women from individual income to collective economic power. Collectives like Green Fem and SkillNest are generating sustainable revenue while expanding opportunities for other women.
Inclusive Livelihood Pathways
Livelihood opportunities designed to reach people facing different barriers to economic participation. Through skills development, enterprise support, and community partnerships, participants build greater economic confidence, resilience, and independence.
Programs shaping UDAAN.
Each initiative is co-designed and implemented with community-rooted organisations that help shape, strengthen, and carry the work forward over time.
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Strengthening Voice, Rebuilding Lives (SVRL)
Livelihood training in basic and advanced tailoring, Aari work, food processing, and livestock rearing for women survivors of domestic violence and HIV. SVRL combines economic empowerment with emotional support and collective organising, helping women rebuild lives with dignity.
Arogya Agam
Theni, Tamil Nadu
352 women trained · 200 women earning through diversified livelihood pathways
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Multi Skill Training Program — Skills & Employment
Youth-focused employment pathway. Training in Tally, DTP, basic computing, and data entry, combined with modular skilling, industry exposure, employer partnerships, and structured placement support to enable stable jobs.
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3,151 individuals trained · 2,213 placed in jobs or supported through enterprise · ₹11+ Cr income generated
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SkillNest - Women’s Enterprise Hub
Skill training in tailoring and handicrafts, supported by mentorship, government scheme connections (MUDRA loans, startup schemes), and structured market linkages. SkillNest is where trainees become trainers, and where individual skills become collective enterprises.
YellowBag Foundation
Madurai, Tamil Nadu
204 women trained · 130 earning · 4 micro-entrepreneurs stabilised · 816 total ecosystem impact including families
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Economic Inclusion Program
A three-year poverty graduation model providing income-generating grants, business mentorship, training in goat rearing and kitchen gardens, social security enrolment (ration cards, Aadhaar, bank accounts), and structured savings support. Designed to move families from extreme poverty into stable, diversified livelihoods.
The/Nudge Institute
Bidar, Karnataka
300 women-led families supported · 10% income increase · 150 families graduated from the programme
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Creation of Livelihood Opportunities through Skill Training
Training in eco-friendly product manufacturing, including jute bags, palm products, millet-based food products, tailoring, and Aari work, alongside the formation of the Green Fem collective for market linkages and value chain development.
Voluntary Association for People’s Service (VAPS)
Madurai, Tamil Nadu
528 women skilled · 350 earning through the collective · Primary producer group registered
We joined the SkillNest Aari Work course as learners in October 2025, unsure of where our skills could take us. Through hands-on training, theory sessions, and continuous mentoring, we didn’t just learn Aari work. We learned how to work together, plan careers, and believe in our abilities. After completing the course, one of our trainers invited us to step into a new role as vocational trainers at a women’s education institution in Madurai. Today, we train over 300 students together. What began as a skill course has become a leadership journey.
Parameshwari, Saranya, Asma Nisha and Sheela Selva Punitha
UDAAN SARTHIs, Madurai
SkillNest, Aari Work pathway
Economic systems communities can carry forward.
UDAAN builds the systems that enable communities to access, navigate, and expand their own economic opportunities.
A young woman who completes a Project 10K placement does more than become an earner. She creates new possibilities for other women in her village. An UDAAN SARTHI who manages a self-help group does more than facilitate meetings. She becomes the institutional memory of how collective economic action works in her community.
This is what economic autonomy looks like. Opportunity that grows into resilience, leadership, and long-term independence.
