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Kudumbashree: How a Kerala women's self-help group fed election officials — and made a profit
Vasanthi Hariprakash •Kudumbashree is 43 lakh women strong. Most recently, they cooked and fed the staff at polling stations in Kerala’s capital Tiruvananthapuram on 23 April.
Amazon India partners with Kerala's Kudumbashree to empower women entrepreneurs
•Amazon India will support, train and empower women entrepreneurs associated with Kudumbashree
Kerala’s poverty eradication mission Kudumbashree harnesses citizens' groups to help transform women's lives
Indiaspend •Between 2008-09 and 2016-17, 90 percent of MGNREGS workers in Kerala were women.
Women's empowerment in Kerala: From loans to education about laws, state initiative seeks to change lives
K Praveen Kumar •Kerala, which leads the nation in most social indicators, is undergoing a silent revolution. In God's Own Country, women are being empowered not just economically, but psychologically
Kerala govt allots Rs 10 crore to eliminate manual scavenging; plans health study to rehabilitate workers
•As the Kerala government is all set to launch a state-wide survey and health study of manual scavengers next week, the unorganised nature of the group and reluctance of people to reveal their job is posing a challenge for authorities
Transgenders break political barriers: Left youth group allows membership to third gender in Kerala
Krejimon •In a first kind of its initiative, Surya and five other transgenders in Kerala’s capital Thiruvananthapuram have been granted membership to the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) and thus giving them strong political backing.
Kerala CPM opens its doors to transgenders, adds 'third gender' column in membership form
•The Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI), the youth wing of the CPM, has inducted nine members of the transgender community in Kerala.
Kerala: Group for women's welfare to set up wellness centres across state
Fp Archives •Kerala's woman neighbourhood network Kudumbashree will soon be foraying into the health sector by opening a string of wellness centres across the state.