Meet Harkesh, an AWC Malviya Nagar, Jaipur Student
Meet Harkesh, an AWC Malviya Nagar- Jaipur Student “HPPI helped me find a perfect balance between supporting my family and supporting my dream” India consists of millions of children who work to financially support their family often sacrificing…
Ilam Mottukal: Helping girl students inch closer to their dreams
Subha Lakshmi is a 3rd standard student in Panchayat Union Middle School, P.M. Thevar Colony, Tuticorin. She is the eldest of the four siblings, with two younger brothers and a newborn baby sister. Subha’s parents work as daily wage laborers in a…
“Start small but aim big,” says Pinky, an entrepreneur
Thirty-year-old Pinky is a mother of four kids and a doted daughter-in-law. And she is also an entrepreneur who runs her own garment store as well as stitching shop and contributes to her family income. Pinky says, “I always wanted to do something…
Sashakt: Creating Choices, Emboldening Voices
These days, a repetitive “kuk kuk kuk” sound mostly welcomes the visitors as they enter Rukmini Bai’s gracefully minimal, earth-made house in Sanwadi village of Sheopur district in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. One may also enter the…
Vishal Kumar from Neemrana
Meet Vishal Kumar from Academy for Working Children-Neemrana Hi I am Vishal kumar and I am 14 years old, my father name is Rajender Prashad and mother name is Manju Devi. I belong to poor family from U.P. and here I living in Neemrana. We are 2…
Samarth Girls Programme: Nurturing Dreams into Reality
Once one says ‘yes’ to positivity, the affirmation turns contagious. And 9-year old Divya Kumari is a living testimony of the dictum. Since the three years she came to Dharuhera from her native Uttarakhand, the 9-year-old has experienced a sea…
Economic Freedom with Gender Parity
Watching us approach her shop, 35-year-old Rekha Devi’s husband, Ashok Kumar, left in haste while she sat hunched over her sewing machine table, jotting down measurements for a small number of customers in her work diary. He was quick to return,…
The taste of financial independence
A peacock hastily crosses the road and dives into a mustard field while on the left of the road, three beautiful migratory cranes flap their wings in a pond with the setting sun in the background. Atail is a picturesque village in Rohtak, Haryana…
Aseem- A story of struggle and triumph
Aseem- A story of struggle and triumph Aseem a 9 year old vivacious boy lives with his family in slums of Chakkapur village, Gurgaon. Just like an average 9 year old he is mischievous, spirited and curious but that is where the similarities end.…
Mascara in the shantytown
In fortitude, the courageous forge their providence. This dictum holds particularly true for 43-year-old Jharna Bairagya of Nathupur slum cluster in Gurugram, Haryana. The rapid metro whizzes overhead and the multinational offices across the road…
