Anuradha Krishnamoorthy and Namrata Sundaresan, founders, Kase are the recipients of Nari Shakti Purasakar 2017. Their cheese-making unit employs women with disabilities, teaches them the skill, and makes them independent. CHENNAI: It’s 3 pm on a weekday, and we are at Kase, an artisanal cheese-making unit in Alwarpet. It is a treat to look at …
UNITED NATIONS: India has said that gender equality and emancipation of rural women is a key driver of inclusive growth in the country, with discourse on women’s empowerment progressing from viewing women as recipients of welfare benefits to engaging them as active agents of change. Sanghi cited Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s remarks that India is …
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Starting with 1,500 students in 2000, the midday meal scheme run by Akshaya Patra Foundation has evolved to become the world’s largest. It now aims to increase its reach to five million students by 2020 The Akshaya Patra Foundation also delivers food to over 4,000 Anganwadi centres, benefiting more than 163,000 children.
UN General Assembly President Miroslav Lajcak has held up Sunita Kashyap, the founder of Umang, as an example of women empowering themselves and coming up with solutions to their problems. While women face challenges, “rural women act as a major source of innovation, and ideas,” he told the inaugural session of the UN Commission on Status of Women (CSW) meeting here on …
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A woman will always find a solution, she tells participants at VIT’s Women’s Day celebration A strong message: Actor Gautami Tadimalla, founder of Life Again Foundation, giving away certificates at the Women’s Day celebrations at VIT on Monday. VIT Chancellor G. Viswanathan is seen. To an auditorium filled with women, actor Gautami Tadimalla, founder of …
