Empowerment

Here are the 10 wonder women of India that we would like to honour with The Better India Spotlight, 2018.

Saluting individuals like these whose determination, hard work, and courage have proven time and again that no disability can stop them from achieving their dreams and goals.

"The pending amount has been decided to be utilised for the maternity benefit scheme. The disbursement of the amount will be done by the state authority under the direction of the Labour Ministry."

Regular talks on understanding the “self” and making informed choices and decisions helped boost their self-esteem.

It was perhaps a chance encounter with the team of ICICI Academy for Skills (IAS) that changed the course of Dilbagh’s life.

The media is having a field day, given that they have so many stories now to report on. India has finally got its own #MeTooIndia, says the editor of a leading daily. To them, it means more stories and therefore more eyeballs, and ultimately more revenue.

Reaching out to over 42,000 people, READ India is an organisation that believes in empowering rural communities to alleviate global poverty.

Through Dance Movement Therapy, Renelle Snelleksz has been implementing the collaborative use of movement and dance to support the emotional, social, cognitive, and physical integration of countless survivors of domestic violence and human trafficking.

"Right from my school days, I wanted to do something for the betterment of girls in our society. The inequality faced by us was very disturbing to me.”

The enterprising couple is working with school dropouts in both villages and urban slums across the country to train them in livelihood trades and vocations.