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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 become a housewife, bound to household chores. For Bhagya, this meant a great deal of emotional stress. it was to Adjusting with her alcoholic husband and his demanding family was by itself emotionally challenging. Moreover, the gnawing thought that marriage took away the freedom that she had as a working woman, troubled her. Bhagya, Gollaha

Siddharth Pai, a 12 standard student of the National Public School, Indiranagar, Bangalore, interned with us and here’s what he has to say about his Buzz experience. I interned with Buzz for four weeks – from the 8th of April to the 3rd of May, 2019. On my first day, Buzz’s Chief Changemaker Uthara Narayanan explained the workings of the organisation. She told me that they had identified four main challenges faced by rural women on their journey to self-reliance: financial m

Nine months pregnant, Arefa froze at the face of a tragedy. Her husband succumbed to an accident. Emotional trauma on one side, Arefa got gripped by the feeling that she was now at the mercy of her family. She became totally dependent on her sister and sister’s family – confining herself to a withdrawn life. This was ten years ago. Today, three years after attending Buzz India’s training, you’ll not recognize that this was the same Arefa who wouldn’t step out of her house. Ar

Brinda makes it all look very simple – setting a goal, going after it and achieving it. Here’s her story: “Namaste. My name is Brinda. I come from Vinayak Nagar, 3rd Cross, Tumkur. When I attended Buzz India’s training, I didn’t know anything about what is business, what is income or what is expenditure and the trainer explained everything. I made a xerox copy of all the worksheets that were given in the training – of saving, of income, everything – and I have been writing ev

Tejaswini, our trainer, was taken aback by surprise when the women of Kammasandra village invited her as Chief Guest for their Women’s Day programme. In typical womanly humility, she tried telling them “No, I’m no great woman to deserve this honour.” But for the women, Tejaswini was their trainer who inspired them, who brought change to their lives. They saw a role model in her and were insistent that Tejaswini should grace their celebration. She accepted with great happiness

Pankajakshi is one of our Buzz Gelathis, or community leaders, from Tumkur. She was among 20 other women attended the workshop that we organized for Buzz Gelathis. The workshop was intended to help them become problem solvers in their own lives and in their communities. Unexpectedly, the workshop became a revelation to all of us, the organizers and the participants, as we saw how the conversations started unfolding. Women spoke about their everyday problems. Domestic violence

Our impact is pushing us to do more! We want to create more women who just can’t stay poor! Our simple two-half day training and long term hand-holding has miraculously changed the fortunes of 15000 low income women in the last five years. When we got to see how the training changed their lives, we got bitten by the urge to do more and impact many more lives. There are 3 million low income women in the state of Karnataka, India. We want to impact 1 million women by 2025! A t