Women Empowerment · Creation Welfare Society
Economic independence is not one step. It is an ecosystem.
Five distinct programmes connect confidence, practical skills, collective strength, livelihood opportunity, and entrepreneurship—so women can shape more independent futures on their own terms.
- Skills with application
- Collective growth
- Enterprise handholding
One portfolio · many entry points
Follow what women are building—not a fixed funnel.
A participant may enter through a skill, a group, a financial question, or an enterprise need. Explore how the programmes overlap around five forms of capability.
01 · Confidence
Knowledge becomes everyday agency.
Gender dialogue, life skills, digital literacy, and financial understanding help women make informed choices in households, groups, and enterprises.
01Self-reliance
Swawalamban
A broad foundation for confident, self-directed futures.
Running in Sultanpuri since 2021, Swawalamban brings women and adolescent girls into a connected programme of gender awareness, vocational learning, digital and financial literacy, leadership, employability, and enterprise support.
- Who it supports
- Women and adolescent girls in Sultanpuri and surrounding communities of Northwest Delhi.
- Distinct contribution
- Swawalamban creates the portfolio's widest capability base: knowledge, technical confidence, leadership, and practical linkages that can support work or enterprise.
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Vocational capability
Training includes sewing, embroidery, beauty and wellness, food preparation, and other locally relevant skills.
Current published programme description
- Since 2021
- Programme activityReported by CWS for the Sultanpuri centre
- Northwest Delhi
- Published locationSultanpuri and surrounding communities
- Skills + agency
- Connected supportVocational, financial, leadership, and linkage activities
02Prosperity through capability
Samriddhi
Training, financial inclusion, and sustained enterprise support.
Samriddhi combines technical and soft skills with financial literacy, self-help groups, business development, and ongoing handholding so women can strengthen livelihoods and build more secure enterprises.
- Who it supports
- Women from lower-income households in Mangolpuri, Sultanpuri, and surrounding Northwest Delhi communities.
- Distinct contribution
- Samriddhi links individual learning with group structures and longer-term enterprise development, helping women move from training into savings, financial services, and income-generating activity.
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Financial inclusion
Training covers saving, credit, insurance, remittance, digital payments, government schemes, and protection from digital fraud.
Reported by CWS as of February 2024
- 3,067
- women reachedTotal outreach reported by CWS
- 162
- self-help groups formedAcross Mangolpuri and Sultanpuri resettlement colonies
- 1,244
- women trained in entrepreneurshipReported through the Samriddhi project
03Collective strength
SHG — Self-Help Groups
Women save, learn, lead, and solve problems together.
CWS-supported self-help groups bring people into small, community-rooted collectives. Financial intermediation is an entry point, while leadership, mutual support, access to services, and shared decision-making broaden the value of the group.
- Who it supports
- Community members—primarily women—who benefit from collective saving, credit access, leadership, and peer support.
- Distinct contribution
- SHGs are both a distinct initiative and a delivery structure used across the wider portfolio, turning individual participation into durable community networks.
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Regular saving
Members build the habit and shared discipline of contributing to a group-managed pool.
Current published initiative description
- 10–20
- typical group membersGeneral SHG structure described on the published initiative page
- Savings
- an entry pointConnected to broader leadership and community goals
- Shared agency
- the wider purposePeer support, participation, and collective problem-solving
04Garment livelihoods
Garments for Goods (G4G)
Technical skill becomes production, identity, and income.
G4G engages marginalised women in sewing, stitching, and garment-based income generation while building technical, leadership, production, and entrepreneurship capabilities.
- Who it supports
- Women aged 18–50 from Sultanpuri and nearby communities in Northwest Delhi, as described by the current programme page.
- Distinct contribution
- G4G gives the portfolio a focused sector pathway: women can deepen a practical trade, improve production, and gain recognition as producers and entrepreneurs.
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Technical foundations
Basic stitching introduces garment construction through practical, repeated learning.
Reported by CWS as of February 2024
- 10,166
- women reachedTotal outreach reported by CWS
- 202
- self-help groups formed2,589 women reported as associated with these groups
- 712 + 298
- basic and advanced stitching traineesTraining counts reported by the project
05Assets and business linkages
Startup Assistance
Practical barriers are met with practical support.
Startup Assistance helps women begin or expand livelihood activity by addressing investment barriers through productive assets, raw materials, banking connections, business documentation, and continued guidance.
- Who it supports
- Women entrepreneurs who need practical support to start, formalise, stabilise, or expand livelihood activity.
- Distinct contribution
- Startup Assistance helps convert learning into usable enterprise capacity, supporting the tools, documentation, and connections that training alone cannot provide.
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Investment barrier
Productive assets and raw materials can reduce the initial burden of starting or expanding livelihood activity.
Current figure reported on the published initiative page
- 553
- women entrepreneurs assistedReported by CWS through livelihood asset support
- Assets
- matched to livelihood needsEquipment, raw materials, counters, ovens, utensils, and more
- Links
- to formal servicesBanking, PAN, and business registration guidance
Connected by design
Different programmes. Shared engines of progress.
Select a shared mechanism to see where it appears. A highlighted connection means the programme contributes to that capability—not that every participant receives the same sequence of support.
Hands-on capability for work, production, and livelihood activity.
- 01SwawalambanConnected
- 02SamriddhiConnected
- 03SHGDistinct focus
- 04G4GConnected
- 05Startup AssistanceDistinct focus
Evidence with context
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These figures reproduce currently published programme information. They are kept separate to avoid double-counting people who may participate in more than one initiative.
Reported by CWS as of February 2024
Samriddhi
- 3,067
- women reachedTotal outreach reported by CWS
- 162
- self-help groups formedAcross Mangolpuri and Sultanpuri resettlement colonies
- 1,244
- women trained in entrepreneurshipReported through the Samriddhi project
Published snapshots are provisional until CWS completes its planned data update.
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