Municipality to Municipality Cooperation : Visby (Sweden) – Jhansi (India)
WWHI has initiated a Municipality to Municipality Cooperation between Gotland (Sweden) & Jhansi. This will work in the areas of: a) Literacy & Gender Empowerment b) Health & Sanitation c) Development strategies. This program is working successfully for the last two years.
The project focuses on the women bidi-rollers from a back ward Municipality ward in Jhansi - the Khushipura ward. The overall goal is to empower women through capacity building. This strategy will facilitate better conditions for women, equality in society and family, increased participation in decision making within the local authorities - a process that will increase local democracy.

As a part of this project women who voluntarily joined in, were selected with the aim of providing knowledge, tools and methods to initiate skill training that would create alternative sources of income for them. BINDU “Building Initiatives & Networking for the Development of the Underprivileged”, an adult literacy centre for women was formed as a part of this project.