women empowerment

Gulmeher began operating as a social enterprise with a group of 30 women, mostly waste-pickers, mobilised from the Ghazipur slum. So far, the women have recycled 7,000 kilograms of paper and kept 15 tonnes of discarded flowers out of the landfill.

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She has dedicated 55 years to create a safe haven for the abandoned, following her motto - don't just ‘make it big’ for yourself, but help others reach it too! #Inspiration

The Award for Development and Welfare of Women and Children was instituted in 1980, in the memory of Mrs Jankidevi Bajaj.

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Deeply in love with her adopted homeland, one went to jail during the Quit India movement. The other became a guardian of the Himalayas, devoting her life to protecting it.

Equipped with a tablet each, these Digital Sakhis confidently ensure door-to-door dissemination of information—from daily transactions using digital modes of payments to updates about government policies and schemes—across their demarcated villages on a regular basis.

Sovni isn’t the only girl in the village whose family had a resistant mindset towards education for girls. For the longest time, villagers felt that educating a girl would have no long-term benefit for her family.

Across rural Chhattisgarh, cellular network penetration used to be the lowest in the country at 29 per cent and almost three-fourths of households remained unconnected under the telecom network.

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