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Following the launch of Milky Latte Brand, Kudumbashree Mission has now launched the value added products of milk in the market. The first Milky Latte Outlet is launched in Kottayam district of Kerala.The outlet was launched at Kangazha on 30 May 2019 and the same was inaugurated by Shri. B Pradeep Kumar, President, Kangazha Grama Panchayath. Milk and the value added products of milk viz., curd, ghee, peda, paneer, cake, ice cream, sip up are available in Milky Latte Outlet. The value added products of Milky Latte would be available in bakeries in the countryside as well. 

  The  Milky Latte Outlet is situated in Kaanam junction of Changanassery-Madhura road.  The outlet functions under the leadership of Kangazha CDS of Kottayam. It is also planned to launch Milky Latte products to the markets of the other districts as well. Kudumbashree Mission had entered the dairy products segment by launching Milky Latte brand.Following the launch of Milky Latte Brand, Kudumbashree Mission has now launched the value added products of milk in the market. The first Milky Latte Outlet is launched in Kottayam district of Kerala.The outlet was launched at Kangazha on 30 May 2019 and the same was inaugurated by Shri. B Pradeep Kumar, President, Kangazha Grama Panchayath. Milk and the value added products of milk viz., curd, ghee, peda, paneer, cake, ice cream, sip up are available in Milky Latte Outlet.

  The value added products of Milky Latte would be available in bakeries in the countryside as well. The  Milky Latte Outlet is situated in Kaanam junction of Changanassery-Madhura road.  The outlet functions under the leadership of Kangazha CDS of Kottayam. It is also planned to launch Milky Latte products to the markets of the other districts as well. Kudumbashree Mission had entered the dairy products segment by launching Milky Latte brand.

For the first time in Kerala, counseling centers were started at the police stations across the district by Kudumbashree Pathanamthitta district Mission. A large number of cases can be solved through counselling or mediation which comes to police stations every day. Till now, a total of 161 cases have been reported to the police station counseling centers including 66 domestic violence cases, 18 cases on atrocities against children, 41 counseling cases, 24 family problem related issues, and 12 cases from various other categories. 20 cases have been referred to Snehitha, 2 to health department and 2 to Kerala State Legal Services Authority (KELSA) directly from these centers.

The problems can be solved properly only after giving them an opportunity to ventilate, which may take so much of time. But mostly the policemen may not be able to give their time and attention for so long. Thus, what ultimately happens is that, they just calls them, threatens them and sends them back. But this does not solve the problem completely or permanently. The Kudumbashree counselling centres at Police Station were able to solve this problem by giving them an opportunity to ventilate freely without any barrier. People who comes to the station with domestic issues are directed to the counseling centre. There are couples may with adaptive problems, financial issues, sexual problems and domestic violence.

This centre also provide common platform to women to address their problem, protect their rights, solve their grievances and provide necessary guidance. This counseling centre at police station works for reconciliation between the couple to convenience them of leading the life instead of breaking up. People can approach the centre for the reconciliation to avoid divorce .There are some cases related to children are leaving home to love failure, cases related to misuse of internet and mobile phones etc. In the case of such teenagers we provide counseling to the entire family and also give awareness to the good parenting. The starting of these centers was a matter of great relief for the police men as well as the clients. These counseling centers will be opened on 2 days a week and the community counselor in charge of respective CDS, and a staff from Snehitha Gender Help Desk will be present there on these days.

The first of its kind of a centre was set up at Adoor Police Station on 17 November 2017. The same was inaugurated by Shri. Jose R, DYSP, Adoor, Following this, counseling centers were started at Pandalam and Aranmula police stations was well. The Counseling Centre at Pandalam Police Station was inaugurated by Shri. Jose, DYSP on 7 December 2017 and the counseling centre at Aranmula police station was inaugurated by the Hon. Smt. Veena George, MLA, Aranmula. More police stations are welcoming this kind of Snehitha Community Counselling centers in their police stations.

Marking the 21st anniversary of Kudumbashree Mission, Kudumbashree Thiruvananthapuram District Mission organised 'Veetiloru Kudumbashree Ulppannam' Campaign (A Kudumbashree Product in every household) on 17 May 2019 to the entire households in the district. All Kudumbashree members in the district became part of the campaign. Products from over 1600 Kudumbashree micro enterprises in the district as well as the products of Kudumbashree Joint Liability Groups (JLG) including variety of pickles and organic vegetables, and all sorts of household products were distributed to the customers. An amount of Rs 83.81 lakhs was recorded as the total turnover of the campaign. A total of 3,65,312 houses in the district were covered as part of the campaign.

Shri. V.S Achuthananthan, Shri. G. Sudhakaran, Minister for Public Works Department and Registration, Government of Kerala, Shri. Kadakampally Surendran, Minister for Co-operation, Tourism and Devaswom, Government of Kerala, Shri. T.K. Jose IAS, Additional Chief Secretary, Local Self Government Department, Government of Kerala, Shri. S. Harikishore IAS, Executive Director, Kudumbashree Mission, Shri. V K Prasanth, Mayor, Thiruvananthapuram Corporation, Shri. V K Madhu, President, District Panchayath and other representatives of the local self-government bodies in the district and other prominent political and cultural organizations became part of the campaign.

The campaign helped in promoting the products of Kudumbashree micro enterprises. Quality products were distributed among the rural, urban areas and tribal areas with the co-ordination of CDS. The programme was launched a month before and posters and boards were placed in different places to gather more publicity. Meetings were assembled for each micro enterprise units under the CDS and the progress was evaluated. Kudumbashree members under each CDSs distributed the products to the households. The Campaign was organised in Parassala, Perumkadavila, Athiyannoor, Nemom, Pothencode, Vellanad, Nedumangadu, Vamanapuram, Kilimanoor, Chirayankeezhu, Varkala, Nedumangad, Attingal ULB, Varkala, Neyyatinkara ULB and Corporation blocks in the district.

Tasty cafe, an enterprise promoted by NULM is opened at the Directorate of Public Instruction at Thiruvananthapuram. The cafe has been inaugurated Smt. Jessy Joseph, Additional Director of Public Instruction at Directorate of Public Instruction (DPI) on 2 May 2019. The Tasty Cafe opened at DPI is started by three Kudumbashree women, Smt.Lakshmi, Smt. Mini Chandran and Smt. Beena Sanal. They are house wives hailing from Poojappura ward. The women are still on cloud nine and according to them it would not have been possible for them to launch such a venture without the help of the Kudumbashree Mission.
 

Tasty cafe, is being a place to unwind and more than a coffee place for many people who frequently visits here. Within two weeks the tasty cafe had succeeded in gaining the attention of coffee lovers. The entrepreneurs are so over whelmed with the responses of people who comes there every day. Kudumbashree District Mission had supported them by providing two tables, shelves and also made a comfortable atmosphere for them to work there, as it is their first experience to work in a professional manner.
 

The tasty cafe provides all types of tea and coffee which costs from Rs 10- 20. They also provide homely snacks. They prepare snacks from home its self and most of their customers prefer steamed food items such as ilayappom, egg bajji etc. These women are in a journey to fulfill their dreams of acquiring a financially stable life, for now they are earning around Rs 3000 per day. They are ever ready to work hard as they believe in Kudumbashree Mission whom they can confide genuinely. Kudumbasree opens cafe corner at Directorate of Public Instruction at Thiruvananthapuram- Featured TopicsThe enterprise is set up with the help of the centrally designed programme National Urban Livelihoods Mission (NULM). Kudumbashree Mission is the nodal agency for implementing NULM in Kerala.

Kudumbashree Mission launched launched three innovative enterprises in Paravur Municipality. Designer Cloth bag making units, A 2 Z service team and Fresh cut vegetable & Fish are the three innovative enterprises launched by Paravur Municipality associating with  Kudumbashree Mission. The teams are set up with the help of the centrally designed programme  National Urban Livelihoods Mission (NULM).
 
The five Kudumbashree units in Ward number 16 at Paravur Municipality are operating the bag manufacturing units with subsidy from the municipality. Designer cloth bag making units have started grabbing attention with their unique bag manufacturing project. When other tailoring units are struggling to dispose the pieces of cloth after stitching dress, these women find these clothes as raw material for their product. They collect such pieces of cloth and started making beautiful bags. Apart from hand bags and sling bags, the team also introduced pencil pouch titled ‘Changathi Cheppu’ to replace plastic pouches used by students. This eco-friendly project has secured recognition of State Haritha Keralam Mission. A year ago, the women attended a training session in cloth bag making at Paravur. Bhoomithra club in Ernakulam St. Terasas College organised the training programme  The municipality had even explored new ways to market cloth bags. The bags are being sold through the Nano market of Kudumbashree.  Apart from this, the municipality had strictly directed all shops to replace sale of plastic bags with cloth bags. Cloth bags and pencil pouches manufactured at Paravur will be made available soon in ‘Amazon', the online shopping site as the Municipality had reached upto an agreement with Amazon marketing department in this regard. The Municipality will sponsor ‘Changathi cheppu’, the pencil pouch, to all students in all LP schools and UP schools this academic year. The move was taken to completely replace plastic pouches or boxes with cloth pouches. The chairman noted that around 3000 pencil pouches will be made available from Kudumbashree for this purpose.  

The A2Z Service team is from Vaniyakkad of Paravur Municipality. They make avail the services to households and offices like paying telephone bills, electricity bills water bills, buying medicines for those who stay alone, getting food from hotels, buying and delivering grocery, vegetables, fish etc.The A2Z service team make avail all these services in minimal rates.

The Fresh Cut Vegetables and Fish supplies 'ready to cook' clean and fresh vegetables and fish in minimal rates to the customers. Sukrutham Fresh Cut Vegetables and Vegetables and Fish unit and Nanma Vegetables and Fish cut unit are the units which make avail the ready to cook fish and vegetables to the customers. During May 2018, Paravur Municipality had launched three innovative enterprises. It is in addition to those innovative enterprises, that the new set of innovative enterprises are launched.