Women Empowerment

SumArth recently launched a project named “Magical Mushroom” whose main focus was giving a good livelihood, nutrition, and making the women farmers self-dependent with minimal investment. SumArth, a for-purpose initiative is dedicatedly working on the feminization of agriculture in Bihar. It is a non-profit social enterprise headquartered in Gaya which supports women farmers in their …

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The spread of COVID-19, or the novel coronavirus, has deeply impacted small business owners around the country. With many states enforcing stay-at-home orders effectively closing down all brick and mortar businesses deemed “non-essential” in the process causing them to retreat to online digital storefronts. Because of the public health crisis, e-commerce has become vital for many businesses to survive …

THIS WOMAN CREATED AN APP AIMED TO HELP ENTREPRENEURS IMPACTED BY COVID-19 Read More »

Punam Khalkho, 25, was just a housewife before she joined a Sakhi Mandal  (Women Self Help Groups), in her village Mudpiri under Burmu Block of Ranchi. JHARKHAND: Punam Khalkho, 25, was just a housewife before she joined a Sakhi Mandal  (Women Self Help Groups), in her village Mudpiri under Burmu Block of Ranchi. Now, she …

Sakhi Mandal workers of Ranchi make living on their own Read More »

Ravina Anand ​and ​Michelle Kwok, two recently graduated Canadian students, launched FLIK, the first female-focused apprenticeship ​portal, allowing verified female talent to apprentice under innovative female founders and leaders across the world. The mission of the Female Laboratory of Innovative Knowledge is to advance women’s economic participation and accelerate women-led ventures globally, the company said …

Indo-Canadian Ravina Anand Co-Founded Company Focused on Helping Ambitious Women Entrepreneurs Read More »

Football Trailblazers: With soccer taking off, the US women’s national team needed a poster girl and a leader. In Hamm it found both Nike founder and chairman Phil Knight was once asked to pick three athletes that he believed had played sport to such a high level that they added a new dimension to their …

Mia Hamm: A pioneer for female sporting empowerment who inspired a generation Read More »