Trial to Triumph: Story of A Sashakt Woman
As one walks through the dusty lanes of Khureri village in Gwalior, towards the house of 26-year-old Anuradha Prajapati, one can’t help but notice the bold, black letters crudely written over the front-facing, bare-brick wall. ‘This house is for…
Nutrition Garden - Virmati Yadav's Story
Nutrition Homestead Garden - Virmati Yadav's Story Virmati Devi, a 35 year old woman was the first in her Self Help Group in Alwar, to sow a homestead garden in her backyard. Typically poor households spend from 60 to 80 percent of their income on…
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…
Financial Literacy: A New Era of Women Empowerment
22-year-old Mamta Devi of Rajgarh tehsil in Rajasthan is fidgety as she sits on the charpoy, next to her husband, clutching her one-year-old daughter nervously with both her hands. She has good reasons to be anxious. After all, women sitting next to…
Children, planet and green cover!
Children, planet and green cover! Climate change mitigation together with the students Anjali, a second year Necessary Teacher Training Programme (NeTT) student at District Institute of Education and Training (D.I.E.T.) Beeswa Meel, Sonepat is a…
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…
Sunita Baberia’s Story
Sunita Baberia’s Story “We wake up before the last twinkling star gets consumed, and quickly brush our teeth. Ablutions over, it’s time for breakfast, and then onwards we march to school.” Nine-year-old Sunita Baberia sings these lines in her native…
Sashakt Women Propelling Social Parity
“Why aren’t you marrying off your daughter yet? Do you want us to approach the Panchayat to resolve the issue?” “Why do you need to continue her education? Do you think your daughter will be the next Prime Minister of this country?” No sooner had…
“Self-reliance, The Key to Success”
“The word Naukricomes from Naukar,” says 30-year-old Anju Bala. “Today I am confident enough to provide livelihood options to several in need and I thank the DISHA project for this encouragement,” she adds. Anju is referring to the Hindi word for…
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…
