UNDP project empowering women in rural areas

The lady livestock workers (LLW) have been trained to deal with veterinary problems faced in everyday livestock farming. Inclusive of healthy cattle, the project has also given rural women the confidence and means to ensure a steady income for their families. These lady veterinary graduates were especially contracted by Engro Foods for a four week training session each to be undertaken in conjunction with development of curriculum, to enable lady master trainers to impart primary animal health care and production skills to women livestock farmers in remote areas they belong to.

These women are called social mobilizers with regards to the project and they help in identifying women who will be right to be trained as LLWs. They work through proper village protocol, identifying the potential LLW, getting permission from village elders and the ladies’ families before recruiting them to the training programme.