women empowerment

“People asked a lot of questions like — is this why you sent her to college, to let her climb coconut trees? Is this a job meant for a woman and so on."

Madhya Pradesh-based KhaDigi also experiments with other natural fibres like organic cotton, and waste from bamboo and soybean.

“My income at the time was Rs 15-20 per day, and even that was not regular. On many days, I would just eat puffed rice as I could not afford a lunch-meal for myself.”

“If 10,000 people in India resort to food forestry today, it can save 50,000 people in the next few years."

"Praises poured in from all over. I was flooded with requests from my friends and even strangers to make more Marwari dishes. More than the money-making bit, I was excited to share the taste of Rajasthan,” says Abhilasha Jain who kickstarted her career with Facebook

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“I come from a village where people believed that women are only supposed to stay indoors and take care of the household. While I enjoyed my work as a homemaker, I never agreed to the limitation of that idea. I wanted to do something more, something on my own and after a lot of struggle, I did it.”

From growing a kilo of mushrooms to winning the Nari Shakti Puraskar, this Bihar Nari is all things inspiring!

When the doctors told Sanjeevani Pawar's domestic help to stop working, she started an initiative that is today doubling the incomes of 16 underprivileged women!