Food Security Program

1 yearof grain and oil to feed the entire family

About the programme

Food and financial aid for Gramshree’s women

The Food Security Program is an ongoing scheme started to provide food and financial aid to Gramshree’s women.

During the initial months of the year, our team distributes sacks of grain and bottles of oil to the artisan women: the amount required to feed the entire family for a year. The programme alleviates the pressure of putting food on the plate and allows them to work without any apprehension.

Every month, the women pay easy instalments for the food stocked, from the income they earn at Gramshree. Food Security is one of our essential programmes: the organisation supplies women with a year’s worth of quality grain and oil at an affordable price, along with access to a scheme that allows them to ‘earn first and pay afterward’.

Programmes like these make the bond between the organisation and the women closer, resulting in a family-like environment.

How it works

A year of food, repaid as she earns

Grain and oil are stocked at the start of the year and paid for month by month, from the income the women earn at Gramshree.

Stocked early in the year

During the initial months of the year, our team distributes sacks of grain and bottles of oil to the artisan women.

Enough for the whole family

Each woman receives the grain and oil required to feed her entire family for a year.

Quality at a fair price

The organisation supplies a year’s worth of quality grain and oil at an affordable price.

Earn first, pay afterward

Every month, women pay easy instalments for the food stocked, from the income they earn at Gramshree.

Why it matters

Food on the plate, freedom to work

With the family’s grain and oil stocked for the year, the artisan women can work without any apprehension.

Less pressure of putting food on the plate for the whole family
Quality grain and oil at an affordable price, paid for from what she earns
A closer, family-like bond between Gramshree and its women

Food security has long been part of Gramshree’s care for its women. Our website described the same idea back in 2008.

“Each year the women are provided a year’s supply of oil, grains and spices to reduce the daily stress of feeding their families … They then repay this subsidized ‘food loan’, which costs less than the market value, by paying monthly installment[s] from the wages they earn through Gramshree.”

Gramshree website, 2008

Care that keeps her working

Part of a holistic approach to women’s welfare

By building relationships and providing assistance in the ways that best fit each need, Gramshree works towards empowering women to progress towards a brighter future.

The Food Security Program sits alongside Gramshree’s wider care for women’s health, nutrition and well-being.

See what we do Life at Gramshree

Health and nutrition
Gramshree has built an eco-system where women are constantly reminded of the importance of health and nutrition, with nutritious snacks while at work and health and sanitation awareness programmes. Every evening, Tanujaben, Gramshree’s Annapurna, cooks snacks for the entire Gramshree family.
Medical camps at the doorstep
Gramshree brings medical camps to women’s doorsteps with the help of partner medical facilities and volunteers.
Flexible timings
Women at Gramshree work on flexible timings, so they can focus on both their families and their work.