inspiration
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Volunteer at Buzz India: Finding My Direction

When Sowmya, our Community Anchor facilitator, introduced Vani to Karpagam, her Manager, Karpagam wondered if Vani was really capable of...

Extending our impact with more buses on the road.

For Geetha and her husband, Dhyanappa, have a two-year-old child with special needs to take care of. It is demanding – both emotionally...

All these years, Pratibha, her bedridden husband and their son consciously lived, rather struggled to live within the means of a minimal...

This article by Uthara Narayanan, our Chief Changemaker, appeared in Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship’s newsletter. Geeta had to...

Not many are able to understand what a woman goes through when she’s asked to leave her independent life, her job, and her earnings to...

Siddharth Pai, a 12 standard student of the National Public School, Indiranagar, Bangalore, interned with us and here’s what he has to...

It was two years ago that Jayaram, one of the best trainers of Buzz, delivered his training to the of women in Arekere village, Tumkur...

Totally unpredictable – that’s how Rathnamma’s financial situation was a few months ago. She and her husband are silkworm farmers in a...

When Padma, our trainer, went back to Tippedarasarahalli in Tumkur district, Karnataka, India, to meet the women she trained, she hadn’t...

Sonali Mehta-Rao, Co-Founder & Chief Growth Officer, Awaaz.De, shares her experience from her visit to Buzz’s training. Having worked in...

Gambian pilot on integrating economic empowerment and ecological improvement.

Buzz Women has passed a major milestone and is scaling rapidly.

“If you come to my village and ask my name, everyone knows me. I’m famous in my village. I have made a name for myself”, says Gowri of...

Prema Kumari, a tailor living in Araluru village, is on a savings spree. Be it electricity, water or money, she has become extremely...

Aminata’s fruit business was like that of a messed us wardrobe, an absolute disorder. She did not know what her expenses were, how much...

Sowbhagya, a 35-year-old housewife from Sondekoppa village, had not even thought that she could also earn money. Even though she knew to...

Nine months pregnant, Arefa froze at the face of a tragedy. Her husband succumbed to an accident. Emotional trauma on one side, Arefa got...

“It’s a blessing for poor people like us to have you in our house”, said Savita, our Gelathi in Urukere village, to our team who visited...