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CARE India’s Bachat – Improved Cook Stoves Programme: A Success Story
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CARE India’s Bachat – Improved Cook Stoves Programme: A Success Story

CARE India, a prominent NGO for women and a respected women's organisation in India, has been at the forefront of empowering women and improving their health and well-being. Through their various initiatives, they have been able to make a significant impact on the lives of many women across the country. In this blog, we will share some of the success stories from thei... Read More

Cleaner Cooking, Stronger Families: The Story of Heenaben’s Transformation
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Cleaner Cooking, Stronger Families: The Story of Heenaben’s Transformation

In the heart of Pipaldahad village, nestled in the Subir Block of Gujarat's Dang district, a tale of resilience and transformation unfolds. This is the story of Heenaben, a woman who single-handedly supports a family of ten and has revolutionised her household with the adoption of an Improved Cook Stove (ICS). Heenaben's journey began with a problem that plagued ma... Read More

Helping Empower Women Entrepreneurs
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Helping Empower Women Entrepreneurs

Mrs Vasantha is a 32-year-old woman from Vallakottai Village, Sriperumpudhur Block in Kanchipuram District. She attended school until the 12th Grade, after which she acquired three years' experience working as support staff at the SBI Customer Service Centre in Vallakottai Village. During that time, she earned a salary of just INR 7,000... Read More

Building businesses, Empowering women
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Building businesses, Empowering women

Healthy living along with sustainable livelihoods is key to changing the destiny of many poor and marginalised women in the remotest parts of our country. This builds their resilience to meet life’s challenges head on and provides a strong foundation to take care of themselves, their family and the community. In the Gosaiganj cluster of Lucknow district in Uttar ... Read More

Chasing dreams
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Chasing dreams

Life had not treated Neetu kindly. Born in abject poverty in the village of Mridhan Purwa of Fatehpur cluster in Barabanki District of Uttar Pradesh, she had struggled all her life to keep her and her family’s body and soul together. But when circumstances couldn’t get worse, it did. Staying in a temporary plastic sheet shelter with her husband and her two c... Read More

Building businesses for women empowerment
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Building businesses for women empowerment

Deep within the district of Gosaiganj cluster of Lucknow district in Uttar Pradesh famous for its Manjha Fort and Gopal Temple lies the village of Karorwa where a gritty band of women are stepping out beyond their traditional roles as homemakers into the brave and unpredictable world of business- without leaving their home! The innovative business model is... Read More

Accessing schemes, Improving lives
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Accessing schemes, Improving lives

Meena Kumari from the village of Bastiya in Gosaiganj cluster of Lucknow district in Uttar Pradesh got her elder daughter married a couple of years ago. Though struggling to make ends meet, they somehow put together the money required by taking help from family and friends. What she did not know was that the Shadi Anudan Scheme floated by the government for extremely ... Read More

Nutrition from the backyard
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Nutrition from the backyard

In the village of Kapera Wadarpur in Gosaiganj cluster of Lucknow district in Uttar Pradesh resides Sunita Verma with her husband and two sons. Born and married into a farming household and given all the trials and tribulations she and her husband has worked hard over the years to educate their sons- one is studying B Pharma and the other (Diploma in Elementary Educat... Read More

Goatery to the rescue
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Goatery to the rescue

Rekha Devi from Baldi Kheda village in Lucknow District in Uttar Pradesh has had a hard life. She and her husband have been landless labourers struggling to make ends meet. Work is intermittent, lowly paid and hardly enough to cover expenses. Her son is physically challenged, married and unfortunately their child too has physical complications. Asking neighbours for m... Read More

How a stove changed her life
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How a stove changed her life

Mestriyamma used to wake up at 4am every day to cook for her family of 12, consisting her husband, their two children and the couple’s eight brothers. Their house in Kodigehalli slum in Bangalore is simply a large hall with no separate kitchen or attached bathroom. And so, she would cook outside the house every morning and evening. Daily, her husband, Shankrappa ... Read More

From victimhood to resilience – how Kajal ended violence against her
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From victimhood to resilience – how Kajal ended violence against her

30-year-old Kajal was married for 18 years and had three teenaged children. For the past 15 years she was working as an ASHA and did not need to depend on her husband for financial support. Her husband worked with the local newspaper and as a family they were well-off. However, that did not stop Kajal from facing violence on a regular basis. In November 2020, s... Read More

Teenager escapes potential abuse and poverty
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Teenager escapes potential abuse and poverty

14-year-old Seema was brought by officers of the Child Helpline to the hospital for pregnancy testing. She had run away from her home and was rescued by the Helpline; she would be now sent to a shelter home till the legal procedures would be completed. As per the norms, for admitting a female to a shelter home, a negative pregnancy test report is a mandatory requireme... Read More

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