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Goats Empowering Women in India with help of Aga Khan Foundation 2019-04-26
Posted April 27th, 2019 by librarian-hdSource:
thecsrjournal.inBy Bill Gates
Can goats empower women?
In one of the poorest areas of India, they already are.
This is thanks to a new team of health workers who are training rural women how to gain financial independence by raising healthier goats.
The health workers are goat nurses known as “pashu sakhis,” which means “friends of the animals” in Hindi. Pashu sakhis are all poor women themselves who are given basic training in how to vaccinate, deworm, and provide other preventive care to goats in their community.
So, how does this help empower women?
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