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ICNW – Cooperative of poor women As an innovative approach ICNW has evolved a comprehensive social security programme for its members such as life insurance, health insurance, disability insurance, accident insurance and has covered over 9,39,463 women. Further it shares its expertise from its experience of working for over three decades facilitating the women in poverty to other non-governmental organizations (NGOs) universities and those that require such facilitation. Infact this successful strategy has attracted several NGOs both within and outside the country to visit ICNW/WWF both for an exposure visit and orientation to setup a similar outfit in their respective region. Several scholars visited the cooperative for internship and for short orientation programme and one such intern is Anganeta Dyck, Post Graduate student from University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany who visited ICNW/WWF from 1 March 2010 to 28th May 2010. 11
Infact ICNW/WWF combined evolved special modules of the training programme to the visiting NGOs from Uttranchal, Madhya Pradesh, Maharastra, Bihar, Orissa, Rajastan, Chattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Laos, Ghana, South Africa and Universities from U.S., Germany, France, etc. The orientation in ICNW is an intensive exposure-cum-learning experience to replicate the grassroot leadership experiment in their respective region. The exemplary work of ICNW/WWF among poorest women in the three southern states of India was appreciated across the country and towards this gesture an ‘Honorary Doctorate’ to the President from the University of Lunenburg (Germany) was bestowed in the year 1999. Besides this, to commemorate the Silver Jubilee Year of ICNW/WWF Prof. Brunhild Landwehr from Lunenburg University covered the entire operations/programmes of ICNW/WWF in the form of a book titled “Structuring the Movement and Spreading it on….”. 12
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