Women's Initiative for Self-Help (WISH)

In 2002, Weyerhaeuser Company Foundation helped support the Women's Initiative for Self-Help (WISH), a CARE project that strives to improve the lives of impoverished women and children in India. WISH teaches participants about agriculture, natural resource development, bio-intensive kitchen gardening, local food processing, and how to improve nutrition and health.

With Weyerhaeuser's help, the WISH project was able to assist Ranchi, a community in the northern state of Bahir, by:

• Developing 500 nutritional gardens
• Improving agricultural land management practices
• Generating alternative-income opportunities
• Providing non-formal education for children and illiterate women
• Teaching crop diversification