PwD SoochnaPreneur: An Agent of Empowerment

By Digital Empowerment Foundation

Published on: Sept 20, 2022

She points to the fact that it is always very hard for persons with disabilities to withdraw money or get banking services, especially in crowded places. She dreams that all women become independent and watching them grow over the years, she looks for more opportunities to help them grow further.

Her inclination to service got her interested in DEF. Looking at the poor conditions in which some women from her village lived, she started teaching them to stitch for free so that they could earn some money through their work. Considering these challenges, she is extremely delighted that most of the work can now be done online through the training provided to her by DEF and helps others who face these difficulties on a daily basis by training them to be independent too. She talks about the changes in her community where it is hard for women to step out of the house. She sees them communicating well now as they are empowered to use digital tools. Being surprised at what one device could provide, she has two centres in her village of which she looks after one and has trained another young woman to take care of the other. She spends the income she receives from this work on fuel so that she helps other women in either training or taking them personally on her scooter to get their social work done.

She points to the fact that it is always very hard for persons with disabilities to withdraw money or get banking services, especially in crowded places. She dreams that all women become independent and watching them grow over the years, she looks for more opportunities to help them grow further.

SoochnaPreneur is an initiative with a vision of supporting, strengthening and enhancing the capacities of grassroots communities to access and avail information and entitlements in critical areas of health, education, social and financial inclusion, livelihood and employment.