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Project : Lunch catering scheme by women's survivor group in Bhopal
State : Madhya Pradesh
Development Focus: Income generation, economic rehabilitation, women’s empowerment

About the NGO*:  The International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal (ICJB) is an umbrella organisation of 20 environmental and social justice groups who have joined forces to campaign for justice for the gas survivors of Bhopal. The ICJB is spearheaded by women's survivor group, the Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmachari Sangh. More information can be found at AID-Austin's Bhopal website , Bhopal website .

Summary of Project: ICJB (International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal) is proposing to start a Lunch Catering business in Bhopal. This business will serve organically grown food to labor class in local factories, college students, and non-profit organizations. The basic philosophy is to provide chemical free food to the local community at a very reasonable rate, which will also serve as an income generation project for women gas survivors. The total costs budgeted to initialize this business are $1,666. The Other Media has approached AID for funding this project entirely.

Objectives of Project: 
The goal of this project is to provide economic rehabilitation to women gas survivors. This project will initially employ 4-5 women from the women survivor group in Bhopal and eventually transfer all the business responsibilities to this group.

Requested Budget: $1660. 

Status:  Withdrawn

Project Coordinators: Ashish Bhutada, Kishore Ganti, Nishant Jain
Contact Email: ashishbhutada@yahoo.com, rganti1@yahoo.com nishj@umich.edu

Additional Information
Project Proposal:  proposal (pdf)
Presentation Slides : 
Visit Report:   
Correspondence Notes:  
Relevant Minutes: 
Other Links: www.bhopal.net, www.bhopal.org, AID-Austin's Bhopal Campaign website  

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July 01, 2004