by blog-coro | Oct 29, 2018 | blog
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 thousands of people reflect on their action. In India, approximately ten...
by blog-coro | Oct 23, 2018 | blog
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. But my husband, Imtiyaz, had a doubtful character from the beginning....
by blog-coro | Jul 19, 2018 | blog
“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 QGLDP fellows decided to come together to work for pertinent, region-wise...
by blog-coro | Jul 7, 2018 | blog
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 themselves. Urmila Galphade Varpagaon My education stopped after the 9th...
by blog-coro | May 22, 2018 | blog
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. Women have to wake up before sunrise to walk for kilometers to get to...
by blog-coro | May 17, 2018 | blog
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. This article has been adapted from Nishita Pandey’s blog post about...
