“To awaken the people, it is the women who must be awakened. Once she is on the move, the family moves, the village moves, the nation moves” – Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru In India, 23.6% of the entire population lives in the peril of chronic poverty, barely able to secure their family’s needs. Every day children, […]
By:- Rahul Ranjan Sinha (Associate Director – Client Insights for Impact) Gaurav Sinha (Program Manager – Client Insights for Impact) How women’s participation in household investment decisions accelerates access to quality water and sanitation services Rajni Vishwakarma, a daily-wage worker in rural Madhya Pradesh, is a self-help group leader and microfinance […]
By Prabhat Labh – CEO, Grameen Foundation India As India unrolls one of the largest immunization drives in history, we watch with bated breath – the aim of deploying COVID-19 vaccines to cover at least a fourth of its citizen by the end of 2021 is within our grasp. The mammoth task of reaching over […]
By Ronisha Bhattacharyya – Marcom. Manager Mintu Devi from Milky Village, Tehsil Warisaliganj, Nawada sits quietly across the handpump in her dilapidated home. When asked about her family she says “my husband left me five years ago and my parents are no more. The only way I have survived this life is by working hard […]
By Purna Roy Choudhury – Program Manager A pandemic magnifies all existing inequalities. COVID 19 has left no exception in proving this yet again. We are not just living through a public-health crisis, but an all-encompassing one that has had far-reaching impacts on the economic-social-psychological wellbeing of people across the world, especially among women. This […]
Besides COVID, the year 2020 will also be remembered as the year when disruptive innovations made possible by technology moved from ‘futuristic’ to ‘mainstream’. Today, access to and usage of digital technology is no more just a vision but has become a way of life for a large majority. Virtual meetings, virtual celebrations, e-commerce, telecommuting, […]
By Gaurav Sinha, CII, GFI I wake up, and it’s the 25th of March 2020, a new day in a strange sense. A day before the Indian Government announced, a national lockdown for 21 days in response to a global pandemic. A couple of days ago it was my birthday, and I had a friend […]
For 68-year-old Surji Devi from Nawada, Bihar life has come to a standstill amidst the global pandemic COVID- 19 outbreak. She can no longer mow grass and sell it to the market and earn her livelihood. In her own words, “Before the virus gets me, I might die of starvation since I no longer have […]
The Covid 19 pandemic has brought forth unprecedented challenges and has put most of us in unchartered territory. While the health and economic crisis around the world continues to loom, technology is playing a crucial role in managing our daily lives. Grameen Foundation India in collaboration with FinTech for Inclusion, a not-for-profit initiative by Piyush […]
By – Rahul Ranjan Sinha & Arshiya Halder Umera Devi, who rears livestock in a village barely 5 kms away from the city of Prayagraj, still uses informal sources for her credit needs frequently, in spite of being an MFI(Micro Finance Institutions) client. Many women in her village share a similar credit status with her, […]
