Asasah has been striving to improve the livelihoods of poor segment of the society through providing credit and financial products/services. During the course, we learnt that we have been serving to such a class among poor who may have repayment capacity, in other words a poor who is un-banked but credit-worthy. Thus a major segment among poor that is called extreme-poor having multifaceted nature of poverty remained un-noticed. Livelihoods of extreme-poor are mostly dependant on such formal and informal social safety-net practices which despite sustaining their livelihoods; help them maintaining their dependency.

Thus, Volunteers Program has been designed to serve such poor who cannot be served through microfinance i.e. extreme-poor. Nature of poverty of this class of poor requires long-term interventions to an extent where they could be regarded as economically ijavascript:JContentEditor.toggleEditor('text');ndependent. This can only be possible if a complete family is served accordingly.

You can serve through:

• Educating an adult (woman)
• Counseling a student on career
• Transferring a productive skill/craft/art
• Educating basic business accounting
• Developing/innovating a product
• Developing market linkages
• Providing legal assistance
• Giving time improve (physical and mental) health of poor
• Writing for poor