In a significant step to promote community-based development, Hindustan Zinc Limited, the world’s largest integrated zinc producer, has appointed 35 trained women as Community Field Coordinators (CFCs) under its flagship CSR initiative, Sakhi. These coordinators will act as a vital link and catalyst to help self-help groups (SHGs) function more effectively, while enabling rural women to access livelihood opportunities, address local issues, and foster a sense of community ownership.
The women have been trained in essential skills such as planning, time management, leadership, and organisation, equipping them to bring continuity and professionalism to local development efforts.
Operating across six districts in Rajasthan and Uttarakhand, the Sakhi project has built a strong network of nearly 2,100 SHGs, engaging over 27,000 women. Now in its ninth year, the initiative continues to create women leaders from within the community. Its broader social outreach—through campaigns on gender equality, domestic violence, child marriage, and menstrual health—has reached more than three lakh people, including over 20,000 school students.
Many of the newly appointed CFCs have deep grassroots experience and have themselves emerged as leaders through the Sakhi movement. For instance, Pooja Chauhan from Sunaria Kheda, once a homemaker, now serves as President of the Sakhi Samriddhi Committee in Dariba, guiding other women towards financial independence. Similarly, Mamta Kunwar from Debari started as a stitching unit member and bookkeeping Sakhi, and is now the Federation Manager of Sakhi Prerna Samiti, supporting over 10 SHGs as a trusted mentor in her village.
These 35 CFCs will guide village-level institutions, facilitate access to rights and resources, resolve group-level challenges, and help women advance socially and economically. Their presence ensures that every village has a trained and dependable leader to drive development.
This initiative is part of Hindustan Zinc’s larger vision for inclusive and empowered communities. Through its programmes in education, healthcare, water and sanitation, women’s empowerment, environment, and livelihoods, the company reaches more than 2.3 million people across 2,300 villages. By providing women with tools, platforms, and purpose, Hindustan Zinc is not only enabling change but empowering communities to lead it themselves.
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