Tag: rural entrepreneur

By Arul Louis, United Nations : UN General Assembly President Miroslav Lajcak has held up Sunita Kashyap, the founder of Umang, as an example of women empowering themselves and coming up with solutions to their problems. While women face challenges, "rural women act as a major source of innovation, and ideas," he told the inaugural session of the UN Commission on Status of Women (CSW) meeting here on Monday. "Take, for example, a woman named Sunita Kashyap. Her organisation supports 3,000 women farmers in India to grow and sell their own crops. "These...