From sugarcane fields to rural Bihar: women building their own systems

Easter weekend, my husband, my mom, and I sat around the table. We were talking about family, culture and history, and quietly opening the door to conversations we never had. My mom started narrating stories of my grandmother. My grandmother used to ride her bike through the sugarcane fields. She would quietly purchase harvest vouchers […]

Meet this Freedom Bearer: Roshan on Motherhood

Roshan and her adopted daughter, Nomi

Like many women and girls from her hometown in Bihar, Roshan lived in poverty with a high risk of being trafficked. But Roshan rewrote the narrative of her life by joining the very first cohort of our Workforce Development Program, a two-year foundation training consisting of life and technical skills training, group counseling, job placement, […]