Here, those who have experienced rape receive counselling and learn skills such as sewing, cooking and farming under the care of Wamama Simameni (Women Stand Up Together).
Other NGOs have followed this route, and now more than 6m poor people (almost all women) have obtained small loans for shops, sewing machines, chicken farming and the like.Micro-credit is one reason for the fall in poverty in Bangladesh, from 59% of the population in 1991-92 to 53% in 1995-96.
Buy tangibles, hardware, tools, ammunition (make your own bullets), grain mills, fish hooks/line... Learn valuable skills: Medical, animal/plant farming, sewing, cooking, auto repair, shooting/hunting, trapping, fishing, curing meat, defensive skills, power and heat generation (solar...).
Early women settlers did much more than farm, sew and cook.
Most will find employment in agriculture, or in non-farm household enterprises sewing clothes, for example, or selling coffee.
For one thing, when I lived in India, those of us who objected to young girls operating looms in Kashmiri rug factories didn't have a problem with children working (Little House on the Prairie style) on their family farms--girls sewing, helping with the cooking, feeding the chickens, and boys caring for livestock, harvesting, and cleaning the barn.
Hardworking women in India care for family members, cook, clean, garden, sew and farm without getting paid.
Nancy Koehn, a Harvard Business School historian, notes that buying on installment has a long history; 19th-century-America examples include expensive farm equipment and Singer sewing machines.
Remington & Sons also produced and sold bicycles, farm ploy blades, and sewing machines but it is the type-writers for which they had their greatest success.
These activities ranged from rearing poultry, pigs and goats; as well as vegetable and crop farming, cooking, knitting and sewing.
Machines will do the heavy lifting, brick laying, construction, farming, even day-to-day cooking, sewing, and surgery.
