Beautician Training Workshop, Chandan, Bihar
PAIRVI has been working with women beedi workers of Chandan Block of Banka district district in Bihar for the last six years. It works to improve their living conditions and social wellbeing. The main agenda of our engagement with beedi workers is to improve the basic rights and social security schemes, develop the alternative livelihood options and entrepreneurship skills, build the leadership quality among the women beedi workers and to establish the cooperative/associations of women beedi workers. These women mostly belong to minority communities and other deprived groups. According to a survey conducted by PAIRVI, rolling Beedi is an industry that employs mostly women. Prolonged exposure to tobacco causes health consequences. The work is so poorly paid that some never break the cycle of poverty that locks them into unhealthy…
