The Mobile Business School for Rural Women is the Mann Deshi Foundation’s innovative solution to making it’s range of courses accessible to women who due to financial or cultural constraints would be unable to access training in a central location. A bus has been designed and converted to operate as a mobile classroom which will travel from village to village within Maharashtra and Karnataka.

The Mobile Business School offers training in a range of technical and practical business skills which will enable women to expand or start new businesses, which in turn be supported with start-up micro-loans through Mann Deshi’s financial services.

The financial services offered include a diverse range of micro-finance products, including savings, loans, pensions and insurance which are coupled with comprehensive and accessible financial literacy training. These services offered from both a central location in Satara and from the Mobile Business School for Rural Women.

Over 8527 women have graduated from the Mobile Business School in Kanartaka.

The Mann Deshi Udyogini (Business School for Rural Women) and The Bonita Trust have launched the second custom-built Mobile Business School for Rural Women (MBSRW), in July 2009 which serves the remote villages of Maharashtra and Karnataka in India.  

MBSRW offers vocational training covering a wide range of skills such as screen printing, tailoring, fast food preparation and agricultural courses, which provide training on dairy production and veterinary camps.  In addition, it also offers business training which includes financial and marketing literacy, technology courses to teach basic computer literacy and mobile phone literacy. The level of courses varies from basic to advanced, in order to meet the diverse needs of women with different skill levels.  Support of Bonita Trust for MBSRW has helped women in remote location to get an access to business training.