Meet Dileshwari, our June 2023 featured student for Stories of Empowerment. Dileshwari lives in Balangir with her child and husband, who works as a laborer for daily wages. Due to the nature of his job, it is oftentimes difficult for him to find work, placing Dileshwari’s family in a very difficult financial situation. A naturally ambitious individual, Dileshwari had always wanted to help support her family so that the sole responsibility to provide isn’t just on the husband.
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Meet Beauty, our April 2023 featured student for Stories of Empowerment.
Beauty currently lives in Balangir with her mother, father, and daughter, but she used to live in Tamil Nadu with her husband and his family. Beauty’s husband would give all the money he earned to his father and didn’t use any of it on Beauty or her needs. “I had to live by suppressing my desires,” Beauty explains. Whenever Beauty would communicate her feelings to her husband, he would fight and argue with her, and she could never get her point across. When she gave birth to her daughter, she expected the quarreling with her husband to stop, but it only escalated.
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Meet our March 2023 featured student for Stories of Empowerment, Nitu. Nitu is from the Beherapali village in Odisha, India. She lives with her mother, father, and brother. Nitu’s father is the only earning member of the family, and he works at the local aluminium factory. Due to Nitu’s brother’s studies and her mother’s health, all the money the father brings in is quickly exhausted, and there is not a single penny left. Nitu says that this would cause her to experience a lot of anxiety, as she was not able to help her family financially in any way.
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Meet our February 2023 featured tailoring student for Stories of Empowerment, Reena. Reena is from the Behera Pali village in Balangir. She lives with her young daughter, Siddhi, and her husband, who works at a grocery store. When Reena heard that she could learn how to stitch for free at the One Life Movement tailoring classes, she went to ask her husband’s opinion. He was completely onboard and excited for her to start the classes. “No knowledge is wasted,” he said. “We don’t know when certain skills will be useful to us.” Needless to say, she enrolled in class immediately!
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