Blogs
Lata Sawant, breaking social norms fearlessly!
Lata Sawant, leader of our Single Women campaign, from Beed is an emotional person and speaks limited. But through her action she has set a courageous example which has solid potential to make...
Striving for justice against all the odds
My name is Hina and I am from a far-flung village in Uttar Pradesh near the Nepal border. When I married at 20, I was training to be a paramedic. I hoped for a happy and long life with my husband....
Single Women Campaign – A Journey of 7 years
“Single women’s issues are severely neglected and their violation and suppression is not even recognised within families or communities.” The Single Women campaign arose when the 2011 cohort of...
The Butterfly Effect: Single Women’s Stories of Change
The Single Women Organization (एकल महिला संघटना) in Marathwada has made countless changes in the lives of women, both big and small. The following are a few of those stories, as told by the women...
The Secret to Solving Drought
Maharashtra is looking down the barrel of a water conflict. In large swathes of the state, heavy but intermittent showers have caused crops to wither due to a lack of sufficient, sustained rainfall....
Visiting the Women Empowerment Team: Stories of Courage and Hope
Students from the Indian School of Development Management interning with CORO’s partners at Edelgive visited our women empowerment team’s community sites in the low-income areas of Chembur-Trombay....