In one of the poorest areas of India, goats empower women. This is thanks to a new team of health workers who are training rural women how to gain financial independence by raising healthier goats. The health workers are goat nurses known as "pashu sakhis", which means "friends of the animals" in Hindi. Pashu sakhis are all poor women themselves who are given basic training in how to vaccinate, deworm, and provide other preventive care to goats in their community. They are filling a gap in the veterinary services to help improve the health of the goats. Through a programme called Project Mesha run by the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) and supported by The Gates Foundation, more than 200 women are being trained to be pashu sakhis in four communities in the Indian state of Bihar. The AKF is working with the government of Bihar to expand the programme in other districts in the state.