Women Empowerment

India’s housewife-entrepreneurs turn a profit from social media

Leave a Comment / ChangeMaker, Information, research, Women Empowerment / By / January 9, 2019

Reselling platforms such as Meesho spread e-commerce and draw investors BANGALORE — Shravanti Chanda, a 31-year-old Hyderabad woman who quit her information technology job after she married, is one of many housewives across India earning money at the intersection of e-commerce and social networks. Shravanti discovered Indian social commerce site Meesho a few months ago …

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A Naxal Attack Took Her Right Arm, But This Architect Beat All The Odds!

Leave a Comment / ChangeMaker, DifferentlyAbled, Women Empowerment / By / January 8, 2019

“I had woken up waist deep in debris. My right hand was smashed, cut off and hanging from my body with the support of a few tendons. I couldn’t feel anything. I was numb. My life had changed.” Shreya was all of 22 when she had a life-altering experience. On May 28, 2010, the architecture …

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Anmol Rodriguez: Acid attack survivor at two months, model and inspiration at 23

Leave a Comment / ChangeMaker, DifferentlyAbled, Women Empowerment / By / January 7, 2019

Two-month-old Anmol Rodriguez was being breastfed by her mother when her father doused both of them with acid. Anmol lost an eye but survived. Anmol Rodriguez was two months old when her father doused her with a can of acid. He wanted to kill her as he preferred a male child. Her mom, who was …

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India’s Vedangi Kulkarni cycles the globe in 159 days, becomes fastest Asian to achieve the feat.

Leave a Comment / ChangeMaker, Women Empowerment / By / December 27, 2018

Vedangi, who hails from a suburb of Pune, cycled into Kolkata in the wee hours of Sunday, completing the 29,000 km distance required to qualify as bicycling across the globe. In an incredible feat for any Indian, 20-year-old Pune woman Vedangi Kulkarni has become the fastest Asian to cycle the globe.  Vedangi Kulkarni’s journey Vedangi, who …

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From The UK to India, Sex Trafficking Survivors Are Re-Writing Their Destiny

Leave a Comment / ChangeMaker, Information, Women Empowerment / By / December 20, 2018

No words need to be spoken, no other connection is necessary; a strange solidarity appears and will stay; that is enough. I met Minh Dang on a mild November morning in Kolkata about an hour before we were introduced formally. She is wearing a blue and white cotton print skirt and a white blouse. She …

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