Learning Has No Limit

By Digital Empowerment Foundation

Published on: June 15, 2023

Mental roadblock towards being able to learn about the digital world is always one of the most challenging aspects of any kind of digital interventions in rural India. But choosing people from the village who approach new things with an open minded attitude has always helped to clear it.

Learning has no age limit. As long as one is willing to put in the effort and persevere, there is no ending to any kind of learning. Kailashben from Pasva, Gujarat also believes and practises the same. She could have found many reasons to just continue with her mundane routine which she dedicates towards looking after her family of four with a teenage son and a married daughter. But instead, she has found many reasons to be more active and support her husband who works as a labourer in a Jubilant factory earning 15,000 rupees on a monthly basis. 

She has been an active member of a Self Help Group (SHG) in her village and her optimism and cheerfulness is said to be infectious. She does some tailoring work and earns by stitching suits and blouses. Her drive to keep working and caring for the society motivates many other women from the village. She is always very flexible in terms of the nature of the work assigned to her which made it very easy to talk about the SoochnaPreneur program with her. From an approach of, “I felt that learning to operate digital technology at this age was a difficult task. But now I have learned a lot and continue to learn”, to promote the SoochnaPreneur model of working to other women in her SHG groups, she has worked very enthusiastically. She keeps herself open to learn more so that she can bring positive changes in other lives too.