CRS Work in India

Microfinance:

Self-help groups link women in rural communities to banks for credit services, and promote women's empowerment. They provide a positive, beneficial way to overcome discrimination that, for so long, has restricted women's rights and opportunities for development.

Disaster Management:

CRS partners are working with local governments, self-help groups, and other community groups to improve community response time to natural disasters and reduce vulnerabilities to disasters. CRS responded immediately with life-saving food, medicine, shelter and other resources after the December 26, 2004 tsunami, the August 2005 floods in Mumbai and Gujarat, and the October 8, 2005 earthquake in Kashmir.

Education, Child Labor and Trafficking in Persons:

CRS supports partner organizations to rescue children from labor and trafficking and place them in residential bridge schools. After the completion of these residential bridge school courses, children are mainstreamed into regular schools.

Community Health:

CRS programs help communities improve their basic health systems by training providers, distributing medical supplies, rehabilitating medical facilities, and enhancing sanitary conditions with clean water systems and education.