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LifeBuilder is a charity registered in India and the UK which is changing lives one skill at a time. LifeBuilder works in Punjab, India alongside the poorest communities providing vocational and entrepreneurial skills training. LifeBuilder give people the skills they need to pull themselves and their families out of poverty.
LifeBuilder provides young people from poor backgrounds with vocational training - giving them skills which can be used to develop a career. We give people a chance to have secure employment and a life away from poverty.
52% of women in India are illiterate. LifeBuilder wants to change this. LifeBuilder is currently developing a new literacy programme in Punjabi to help women from poor communities to learn to read and write.
LifeBuilder is using cows to fight poverty. LifeBuilder trains poor women in how to be a dairy farmer and gives them access to micro-finance to buy cows. LifeBuilder works with these poor women to give them a secure regular income for the first time in their lives - giving them a route out of poverty.
Karamjeet Kaur is an MDVL Woman Entrepreneur. She’s the mother of a teenage son and daughter and separated from her husband 12 years ago. She lives in Nangal Kalan and keeps her cows at Phallewal Community Dairy Unit. Her son is striving to be a scientist and is currently in the final year of his B.Sc and her daughter is in 10th class. ...
Sunita Rani is only 25. She’s a widow and the mother of a young son. Her late husband, Kuldeep Singh, had been a well-known tailor in their village, Kotli, and provided well for his wife and son. But sadly he died from a heart attack when their son was only 3 months old. Despite his family being a large one, support for Sunita Rani was not there and she gradually found herself without the means to earn a living. ...