Sixty-six-year-old Anarul Khan lives in a small village of Lauriya in one of Bihar’s most backward districts. The family lives in constant poverty in lack of any active income. One of the major sources of their income is pension that the elderly couple gets from the government. But the family living Below the Poverty Line…
Access to reliable support provides an extra lease of life to those who may be isolated or live on the fringes. Elderly, especially in rural India, hardly have any access to information due to lack of digital literacy making them prone to vulnerabilities. In his 60s, Uttarakhand’s Dhan Lal Pita could not even avail his…
A graduate from Warangal’s Kakatiya University, Damera Raju dreamt big. He put in hard work and efforts to crack competitive examinations with limited resources he had. “It was difficult to find access to competitive exams material but with support from DEF-IPLM programme, I was able to study hard,” he says. He appeared for various job…
DEF’s rural entrepreneurship-based smart village model Smartpur is growing with its extensive partnerships on ground across 100 locations in India. The project aims at bringing efficiency in daily lives under its six pillars—education, health, governance, finance, livelihood and edutainment. Under the health pillar, on April 3, a medical camp was held at Dharmarayudupeta, one of…
An Internet Saathi, Anuradha Gautam from Madhya Pradesh’s Rewa has made it a mission to empower women in her village. “I could not continue my studies immediately after I was married off in the first year of my graduation,” she says, adding she had to take a gap of a year before she was able…
On the occasion of International Women’s Day on March 8, 2019, Technology Empowering Girls (TeG) was launched in three districts…Read More
“What are democratic rights? We don’t know anything about that”, says Mussayda, a 22-year-old resident of Tain village in Haryana’s Nuh.Read More
Established in 2002, Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) aims to connect the unreached and underserved communities of India.Read More
POSHAN Abhiyaan is the Government of India’s flagship programme to improve nutritional standards…Read More
