“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…
Weaving her own future through education
“My job was to segregate the second-hand clothes coming to the factory according to their colours,” says Nitu as nonchalantly as if she was talking about a daily chore. “No matter how diligently I worked, the owner of the factory would constantly…
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…
Sashakt Women for Sustainable Forest Produce
It is nearly daybreak as 28-year-old Kadi Bai sits on the slightly elevated courtyard of her house to check on the packed lunch and drinking water. Soon, her husband, Balram, and two other neighbours join her, and the four start the 10-kilometre…
Of A Teacher and An Entrepreneur
It is around four in the afternoon and a group of young students hastily rush into 26-year-old Pooja Kaushik’s house in Nayagaon area of Faridabad, Haryana. A small, colourfully decorated chart paper outside the house proclaims that tuition classes…
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…
Financial Literacy paving the way for a brighter, secure future - Guddi Devi
Financial Literacy paving the way for a brighter, secure future - Guddi Devi Name of the Beneficiary: Guddi Devi W/o. Kishan Singh RajputName of the SHG: Ajeetgarh ClusterVillage: Mothuka block of Alwar District Guddi Devi is an embodiment of hope…
Produce Locally, Buy Locally: A Woman Entrepreneur’s Mantra
“The power just went off,” says 45-year-old Sharda Devi as she opens the door to her house located on a cul de sac in Lal Wala Kuan area of Mahendragarh, Haryana; her bright smile lighting up the darkened room. Soft, regular rattling sound of a…
Spurring Potential in Rural Women
“Be careful lest the ceiling fan drops on your head. It’s the first one he has installed so I am a little sceptical. Sit directly beneath it at your own risk,” says 32-year-old Nitu Devi referring to her husband and the fan above our heads, as wary…
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…
